If I remember my high school french class correctly, “bouche” means mouth, so “amuse-bouche” would indeed make the most sense when referring to an appetizer, since it makes your mouth happy.

I’m all for not watching the inauguration, but do you think it would be better to leave the TV off entirely, or leave it tuned to something else, like a Forensic Files marathon?

The llamas and alpacas should be fine, at least; they’re pretty common farm animals, so it shouldn’t be hard to find a farmer who has room for them.

Get the most intimidating man you know to pretend to be your boyfriend/father and tell him to back off?

No, best case scenario is that Pence was involved somehow, and we get Ryan (as per line of succession). I hate Ryan, mind you, but he seems significantly less unhinged than either Pence or Trump.

My parents used to give me tips on how to improve my tantrums. “No, honey, you need to flail your arms more!” That worked wonders at getting me to stop, apparently.

If Quine had suffered a heart attack, the tax payers, including the victims daughter, would have to pay for her medical costs. Her doctors decided that gender reassignment was a life saving surgery, since she had attempted suicide before, and so the state has to pay for it just like they’d pay for a double bypass…

We should fix that by giving everyone better healthcare coverage, not by giving inmates less.

Violentacrez.

I’m holding out hope that Biden will take advantage of the ten-minute Democratic majority in the senate (between when the new session starts and when the new senators finish being sworn in) to call a vote to appoint Garland.

The companies that make the drugs we use to euthanize animals won’t sell them to the government for use in executions.

It’s not that we don’t know how to effectively anesthetize people, it’s that all of the reputable pharmaceutical companies refuse to allow their products to be used for executions, so the government has no choice but to expirement with what the shady pharmacies have in stock.

Tomato face is one of our long-time trolls. They always pick tomato-related screen names, and they have a very distinctive trolling style, namely saying things that are incredibly stupid but just subtle enough that it’s not immediately obvious that they’re being dumb on purpose.

For the CIA, definitely not. They’re forbidden from operating on US soil, although that hasn’t always stopped them. NSA or FBI probably could if they had probable cause for a warrant.

Australian possums are way cuter than American possums. Evolution must have gotten confused that day.

As a retail worker who has been forced to listen to Christmas music five days a week since Black Friday, I dread the thought of people expecting me to listen to them badly sing Christmas music at me while I slowly freeze to death.

Yes, because Trump is threatening our relationship with China, and the Republicans aren’t so stupid that they think that will work out well for them. They’d rather have Pence in office, because he will still probably be amenable to their policy goals, while being sane enough to not get us nuked.

I forgot where I read it, but it focused on the way the movie focused on the importance of Neo’s name; the world knew him as Thomas Anderson, and the oppressive agents, enforcers of the status quo, kept using that name to refer to him. But Neo was always who he really was, and it’s who he became full-time after he…

Not only was it made by trans women, but the entire movie is an allegory about coming out as trans.

GTS is great for getting the other starters. Just make babies of your starter, and they’ll be traded in less than a minute.