In California, the through-line for most anti-vaxxers is wealth. Marin and Orange County couldn’t be more different in terms of politics, but both are full of rich, well-educated people who don’t know what they don’t know and aren’t willing to hear otherwise.

And to think I had respect for those two states for only allowing medical exemptions.

They’re having to play this all out publicly, and they’re fair game for jokes and memes, but also outraged [by] people who are saying that they are cheaters.

Apparently black folks failed to realize that Bernie was the Forrest Gump of civil rights, and had done everything from cradle MLK after he was shot to write Jesse Jackson’s campaign speeches and produce the hook for Public Enemy’s Fight the Power.

I think Notre Dame is worth saving, but I don’t think it’s our job to do it. The fact that our current President does, to the exclusion of dealing with his own problems, speaks volumes.

I didn’t have an email address until I got to college, and even then it took me a while to grasp the concept.

What do they think? Seriously? That we’ve been lying to them all these years about the bullshit we’ve been dealing with since puberty?

Buttigieg has a tendency to rush through things he wants to get done without considering the consequences (c.f. tearing down abandoned houses in South Bend that members of the community were planning to restore). He also loves to bash both Hillary Clinton and those who supported her, and buys into the whole “white…

That’s an insult to herpes.

When I was 15, accessing “the internet” meant going to a cafe and feeding quarters to a machine so you could post to a message board. Maybe if kids had to work harder to get internet access, they’d think twice.

My brother and sister, both younger than me, are both doctors. I work in a public library.

Why must you insult potatoes like that?

Yes, Daddy will see to that.

He looks like he smells of dirty hair.

They are uniformly the least impressive white people on every level.

I have a friend who escaped from grew up in Indiana, and she said Catholicism was quite widespread there.

+1. I was like, “Lilit who?”

tethered Kim Kardashian

You can see why getting transported there was a punishment.

Hell, I remember seeing Yitzakh Perlman on Sesame Street in the eighties. He made a point of coming on screen with crutches, talking about how he had polio as a child.