Do I really need to link you to the Scocca smarm piece from a few years ago? Because I will.

I support Marchman’s headline.

But I think a very, very close relative of that thought is: “I am allowed to ask for a human level of respect on my own terms, especially when someone with more social power sets the conventional terms of what counts as ‘respectable’.” And for me, that close relative is a deeply valuable piece of thinking.

I don’t think most people who critique respectability politics have an actual problem with people who are “respectable” but rather with a whole set of ideas that allow a white audience/writer/thinker/internet commenter to count that “respectable” person (and only that person!) as human. Speaking out against it isn’t…

Your response makes the entire point. Someone in real life—not a video game—is human even if they commit crimes, and nobody is a GTA character. And the idea that a kid that slings mixtapes and hangs with bad kids is or ought to be a GTA character tells me everything I need to know.

I know the convention is to post my own song but I can’t think of one to top “Stay Free”. Good stuff.

Having been that kid watching the parent freak out? Yes. It’s deeply meaningful without being scarring.

Renfield-like describes far too many McDonald’s eating experiences. (My own included, of course)

I have long entertained the thought that Mayor McCheese is a regular, human man with some sort of horrible eldritch curse. The cheeseburger both is and entraps his head, and he lives his life out in a burgery head-prison which, cruelly, transposes all of his wails of pain into goofy laughs and oafish pratfalls. Mayor…

Your false equivalencies fucking blow. Begone, asshat.

FWIW, Maine doesn’t split electoral votes because of “archaic voting laws” but because Maine is a pretty starkly divided state that has an incredibly conservative rural population and a very liberal coastal & urban one. The splitting of electoral votes is an effort to award them in a way that more accurately reflects…

THIS, exactly. But nevermind some people with kids might’ve missed a flight to fucking Cabo.

-1, Burneko, for failing to use “craven”

“These maple leaf cookies are great! And they sure are addictive...and I should know!”

Memelord -in-Chief?

It’s a plague in Maine, where nobody bothered to set up other sports stations but EEI set up dumb transmitters to poop into the airwaves. I’m convinced transmission of EEI in Maine is singularly responsible for most of that (otherwise lovely) state’s problems.

And it’s true what Edna St. Vincent Millay said, too, of the candle burnt at both ends: “But ah [...] it gives a lovely light”

I didn’t want to read your comment because it made me feel bad so I didn’t.

The whole thing is a trick question: you shouldn’t be friends with anyone for whom that’s a remote possibility in the first place. The groom should either be a fucking adult and shitcan the idea because men are allowed to have opinions about (and enjoy!) their own weddings, or this guy is not worthy of the sanctity of…

+/- 1 because it just depends on CHANGING YOUR PERSPECTIVE, MAAAN