You’re probably right: 1945, Founding of the United Nations. I was thinking 1947 because of the Truman Doctrine kicking off the Cold War. We definitely acted like PART of the world leadership before then, but that’s the point where we basically declared “This is the American Century now. We run this bitch. Get on…

The shirt confuses me for so many reasons. First, the geographic shape of the nation looked nothing like that in 1776. Second, if the shirt is referring to the United States, that doesn’t exist until the Constitution was ratified in 1788. Third, we really didn’t start “running the world” until 1947, though I suppose…

It’s called being “From Away.” I’ve lived here 7 years, but I’ll always be “From Away.” Which is fine. I was born a Masshole; I’ll die a Masshole.

The parts of Maine where they’re ok with outsiders are not the places where you can buy a house for the price of a monthly MetroCard. I live in Portland, off the peninsula, and my monthly mortgage is about the same as I was paying for a two-bedroom in Astoria in 2010.

There are many parts of Maine where they could just buy a new house for $100k after taxes.

Based on a Flesch-Kincaid analysis of the 2016 Republican debates, he speaks at a 4th grade level. And he hates The NY Times more than anything, which is written at a 10th grade level. So you’re probably not far off.

Your honor, as someone who works in legal marketing, I’d like to present Exhibit A as evidence of why law firms need marketing professionals. Writing an attorney bio is not something just anyone can or should do.

Because they actually hate themselves, and if you take away their racism then they’re left with no alternative but to confront the piece of shit they see in the mirror.

If nothing else, at least the competitiveness of these races is hopefully sending a message to the Democratic Establishment that we’re done with the backroom dealing “whose turn is it?” bullshit that forced Hilary Clinton on us in 2016. The days of getting the nomination because you’re next in line are over. (Maybe.)

Nineteen years apart. I don’t know if it was that he became more radical with age, or if it was that he realized the changed times allowed for more militant activism that wouldn’t have worked earlier. I mean, from a 2020 perspective, I look at Mattachine and think their tactics would be practically ineffective now,…

“I really thought it was Storming the Bastille”

The Greeks must’ve had a word for anti-pragmatism. The mindset that allows for “Give me security theater that doesn’t actually do anything to stop the threat as long as it makes me feel good” to coexist with “Reasonable, science-based protocols are just liberal fear mongering because they involve a sacrifice I don’t…

I remember granddaddy’s cough

Yeah, you just toggle over from the “Park Slope” setting so you don’t get Parker, Tucker, Tanner, or Baxter.

This goes back to the origins of the gay rights movement, where you had conservative gay groups that were content to push for something closer to assimilation into hetero society at odds with militant groups that were more of the Out and Proud variety. I think the Mattachine Society would’ve been happy to have cops…

So this is heresy and might be grounds to have me booted from the country, but sometimes the Founding Fathers got things wrong. I know. I KNOW! But it’s true. In their attempt to create an entirely new country with an experimental form of government they actually made a few mistakes. Sometimes it was because they…

Why are there two Dakotas? Do we need both Montana and Wyoming? Here’s what you do: you take those four states, turn them into two states (call them whatever you want), make DC and Puerto Rico states, and then you don’t even need to change the design of the precious flag. Solved!

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There are towns in Massachusetts that claim to be part of the North Shore despite being forty minutes drive inland and never touching a hint of ocean. Words are meaningless. Nothing means anything anymore.