No, I agree Robin Thicke seems to be a scuzzbag. I’ve just never understood why Pharell Williams gets off scot-free in the whole affair, when he is the one who actually wrote the rapey lyrics, not just sung them. Everyone seems to (rightly) criticize Thicke for the disgusting song, and collectively avert their eyes…

For the sake of accuracy, he was definitely just the front man for that bullshit. Pharrell Williams is clearly the one who actually wrote it. I nevertheless totally believe Paula Patton is telling the truth.

I wonder if the Doukhobors and Quakers will end up hosting a new wave of American Dissidents in the Kootenays like in the Vietnam War era. Or all of the draft dodgers who still live up there (and weirdly mostly still all deny they were draft dodgers).

You guys are really lucky the Canadian border is so fucking long and that we really don’t have the population to properly secure it.

I’d recommend attempting from Idaho/Montana into southern British Columbia or Maine into New Brunswick through forested areas if you’re serious about it. But, really, if you’re a US Citizen, the smarter way to go is to just cross the border on “a shopping trip” or to go “see a concert” and then don’t go back. Just as…

That’s the problem with running the government like a business, aside from the fact that the government is not a business and does things that are inherently unprofitable, otherwise the business world would already be doing them. And, you know, that businesses depend on the government doing to be able to function…

Trump, Bannon and Kushner are running the show and none of them have government experience or seemingly any idea how government actually works. And definitely none of them play well with others or have adult-sized attention spans so they can’t get things done by working with congress to craft legislation. So fiats. He…

Sorry if I gave the impression I was judging Marie Kondo harshly. I actually gained a lot from reading her book, and hope to eventually be able to put her program into practice because, like you, I have difficulties focusing and following through (trauma-related brain changes often present exactly like ADHD). My point…

I always wonder what the actual carbon footprints of some of these extreme minimalist people are. I assume they just buy things as they need them and then discard them so that they can keep up their boasts about only owning X number of things. And they must either smell horrible or constantly be doing wastefully small…

I can definitely see this, but I think that it’s key to consider the fact that A LOT of people who benefit from the Unfuck Your Habitat method are dealing with problems beyond being messy that cause the messiness - serious physical and mental health issues, or other problems causing extreme stress, for instance…

It’s not deferential - they’ve just figured out the people who know how to pull his strings and scratch his chin in just the way he likes. You just need a few Trump whisperers like Kellyanne Conway to convince him that these are the things he wants to do, and only he is strong and smart and amazing enough to make them…

That certainly aligns with all of the stories during the election about how Trump creates such a hostile and unpredictable workplace, and attracts and appreciates such combative people, that his team is essentially a Hobbesian war of all-against-all.

I’ve read Kellyanne is sabotaging him to get rid of him, but my understand was that Kellyanne Conway was offered the press secretary position and didn’t want it. And who would? I suspect Trump will go through even more press secretaries than GW Bush, unless Spicer is the biggest masochist to walk the earth.

Dangerous offender status legislation is handy in cases where people are violent, dangerous, and lacking in remorse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangerous_offender)

I’ve definitely considered the possibility that the reason she is staying in New York for the next few months is less to do with Barron’s schooling and more to do with having unsupervised time to plot her escape. It really is the perfect time in that a sitting president is probably less likely to want to have a long,…

Yeah, you do not want to fuck with the oil and gas companies. I knew several environmentalists whose protesting and whistle-blowing in Alberta in the early 2000s led them to have to go into hiding. We’re talking constant death threats, and actual attempts: gunshots at their houses when their children were home, and…

If that is real, there is no way that was unintentional. Plausible deniability aside, that’s far too on-the-nose to be a mistake.

I’m a very nonviolent person, but this is a guy who has been calling for mass murder, albeit using prettier, coded language to do so. There should be some sort of consequences for his actions, and since the US doesn’t seem to have hate speech laws to punish him for calling for genocide, it seems a punch to the side of…

I like that that one provides the necessary context at the beginning for why this guy should get zero sympathy for getting clocked. He’s literally calling for the wholesale slaughter of most of the people on the planet. That he makes these arguments with coded euphemisms just makes him more dangerous. Anyone who…

Yes, apart from whatever immediate and terrifying damage Trump does during his time in office, I’m very worried about how far he lowers the bar for subsequent candidates, and government officials. Already he has cabinet nominees likely to be confirmed who have conflicts and ethical issues that would have been…