Thing is, Lord of the Flies was a response to a particular conceit of British pulp novels which depicted young boys/men being stranded as a fun adventure with little internal conflict. Golding took the subject of entitled British boarding school boys and the kind of savagery he saw in how they acted with each other…

As the lone Jew in a sea of Mormons and Evangelical Christians, I was the target of ongoing efforts to convert me for my entire high school experience. At a certain point I just found it funny. Less funny were my teachers who thought it was totally appropriate for a student to announce to the class that I was going to…

I had an evangelical* try to convert me. Told him I was a (not very good) Catholic and he was like, “eh, too much effort. You’re beyond saving” and tried for my aethiest roommate instead.

This is who they made Forever 21 for. This is who they make Pantene Hair conditioner for.

‘Green Grass, Running Water’ made me laugh unexpectedly so many times - it’s a great book.

Live in Houston.

Hey. It isn’t easy getting quotes from dead people. You need to refine the essential Saltes of humane Dust, you must remember not to call forth that which you can not put down (which I guess he forgot). L’geb Yog-Sothoth.

He should double down and post a photo of himself with Thomas Pynchon. Anyone with minimal Photoshop skills and a still from Lost could do it. Maybe his “agent” could provide one. Since no one seems to know what Thomas Pynchon looks like who’s to say otherwise?

I can’t speak to what OP is saying, but from what I understand, a lot of white nationalists don’t consider people of color inferior (or, more accurately, they DO consider PoC inferior, they’ve just figured out that it’s a bad idea to come out and say so). Instead, they insist that they want a white-only nation because…

If this was a premeditated murder then it’s a really dumb one. Because he chose a victim that was definitively linked to him. And his lies are all so moronic that he can’t have put much thought into it.

Oh, you macabre fucker.

It’s MADNESS. Let me tell you about one particularly hellacious afternoon. I was leading a group of students around a gallery and before we went in we did a (1) do not touch the art (PAINTINGS. OBVIOUSLY DO NOT TOUCH PAINTINGS?!) talk and then (2) another one in front of the art about the appropriate distance to…

Uhhhh ... throwing a body overboard and then lying about it doesn’t seem like a natural way to respond to an accident at sea. If this really is her body, then dismembering the body of the accident victim seems like a really unusual decision.

Ok, then give up and move.

Have some GD faith in your country

Solution: ten year moratorium on white people voting.

I find McMullin’s political career depressing - not because of anything he’s done, but because his miniscule following shows how tiny the audience is for non-crazy conservatism.

Forgiveness is used as a weapon among the “devout.” The victim is supposed to forgive and move on, otherwise they aren’t living their faith and they’re the problem. It’s so disgusting.

What a shameless plug. The Halloween stuff just started to show up. Why is Christmas always wanting to butt into the other Holidays’ time?