Thrumblebrag alert!

They are literally the most educated people in their communities. They are unquestionably the intelligentsia there.

New York (and PA, where I live) is just as much Alabama as Alabama once you’re 15 miles outside of Philly, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, Allentown, NYC, Albany, Rochester, Buffalo, etc. There may be some smaller enclaves of blue here and there (Saratoga Springs, NY or Reading, PA) but they’re not big enough to sway the…

He’s not, other than perhaps by conflating “smart” and “educated”. There really was a tendency (not that long ago; I’m 50 and it was still there when I was growing up) for the working class to think education was a sucker’s game because they could make just as much if not more without it. It wasn’t until the 1980s…

He uses the term “learned helplessness” to describe people who have internalized the idea that nothing they do makes a difference in their lives. How else to explain the rampant domestic violence, ignoring of birth control, a diet of Mountain Dew and cigarettes, declining honest work in favor of being on the dole?

Trump doesn’t worry me.  What worries me is someone who takes his playbook but it also even marginally competent.

Having lived in places like Oklahoma City and Indianapolis I can relate to a lot of the things described here. My well educated parents were always quick to make the point to me and my sibling that education is the only way forward, but I’ve often thought of my best friend in middle school - a rather large black kid…

Also it’s sometimes used an anti-semitic dogwhistle, especially if the words “costal elites” or “globalist” are used in conjunction as synonyms.

Well, it’s not like you need an extra fork to eat steamed hams.

I grew up in the Ozarks and this makes me weirdly defensive of the term ‘hillbilly.’ Ohio, north of Cincinatti? You’re too flat! You can’t be a hillbilly on flatland you’re just white trash.

I find it funny when people use the phrase “from new york”, as in “a reporter from new york, as some sort of short hand for urban sophistication and privilege. I also grew up in an economically depressed town full of blue collar workers who did probably know about extra forks but just didnt see the point. That town was…

I know this is not “counter top” but have you ever thought about a “rolling” dishwasher?

It’s a normal sized one with a butcher block on top, you roll it in an out when you do dishes, and the rest of the time it’s like a small island.

They are much more reliable then countertops as they are basically a normal…

I know this is not “counter top” but have you ever thought about a “rolling” dishwasher?

It’s a normal sized one…

SNL is inherently for a broad audience, I am sure it’s watched by middle aged Gen Xers and now-aging Millennials as much as the young folks. I hope they don’t start worrying about whether they should only make jokes that 19 year olds will get.

Whenever Obama spoke up in the last year I just stopped and could not believe the contrast, Trump is such a moron.

Think of the country as a big colon. Waddles was the severe case of constipation that was backing us all up. The election was the big dose of magnesium citrate that loosened up that clot of compacted fecal matter so we could successfully pass it. And Biden is the soothing medicated pad dabbing at our sore-but-relieved…

Well, see, it adds up like this....Trump is a delusional lunatic.

People shit talk her, but I've always liked Ann Hathaway. She's talented, gorgeous, and from this at least, seems to be a decent person.

I’m continually reminded this site is a shadow of a husk of a whisper of a fart of what it used to be and it has now descended into lukewarm garbage. And then I stop reading. Months go by and I start to miss the Jezebel of old and read an article here and there and they’re not bad and even pretty good and then it…

Celebrity: I have insecurities in an industry that is always picking apart what I say, do, or look like, and so I can connect with and respect how so many others suffer too. It’s alienating.

With an article headline like that... you should be out of work.. Grow up and act like what you write matters, not just clicks.