Pretty much. There’s nothing in the world like the transparent cowardice evinced through the lipservice the GOP pays to an omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent sky-daddy that has done approximately fuck-all to fix any of this shit.

I wound up losing a friendship over this most recent shooting, because I called out the…

I’m actually contemplating my first shotgun purchase, primarily for home defense purposes. We just recently had someone harboring a violent fugitive a few streets over from me; federal marshals showed up in body armor with weapons drawn—the whole shebang.

The fugitive evidently managed to slip past them, and the search…

I can’t wait until the NRA is completely exposed as a money laundering agent for Russian oligarchs on behalf of the Russian government. 

shit. I grew up the son of a commercial fisherman. I wouldn’t even eat seafood when I lived in Philly and that’s only an hour or so from a coastal Fishery. Shit never seemed properly fresh. 

Most sushi restaurants serve frozen fish. Even the good ones. The big difference is that really high-quality frozen fish is frozen on the boat and remains thoroughly frozen until the restaurant thaws it. There is really no reason for a cheap sushi place to be substantially better or healthier inland versus on the…

I’ve never understood why people love buffets so much. The food quality at even the supposedly “nice” buffets I’ve been dragged to is always noticeably worse that what you’d get at a decent, mid level normal restaurant. Unless you’re the kind of person that likes to eat for the sake of eating, I don’t see them as…

Pssst. To OK from Hawaii. It’s the Sushi in OK he won’t touch, not the stuff in Hawaii.

Agreed. I moved to Texas from California 9 years ago. I have no idea why people out here love shitty Chinese buffets so much. Go get a reasonable portion of GOOD Chinese food.

I moved to OK from Hawaii and people can’t understand why I won’t go for sushi with them.

Right? If you’re getting sushi in Oklahoma, you deserve everything that happens to you after that.

as a Texan, I keep going back and forth between:

You got the dying alone part right.