There have been some really interesting (and disturbing) articles written on the careful linking of professional sports to nationalist ideology/symbology and the armed forces. I’m going to try to pull some links and post below.

I just bought a Michael Bennett jersey. I have been a lifelong Seahawks fan but I’ve always kind of despised the NFL marketing machine. I already feel like a sucker but I’m gonna wear it to my families Thanksgiving gathering to rub it in my Trumpet loved ones faces. Go Hawks and go Mike B!

are you serious? . What they can do is offer more $$..everyone has a price. Someone else will take that $1000+ hotel. You can’t use force on a paying customer. He had a reason....What if your mom was dying and you had to fly home to see her? and the next flight out is not til the next day? C’mon man can’t blame the…

What the fuck, are you serious? The man paid for his ticket. He paid for a ticket to go on that plane.

America is so fucked right now because the Government has turned the keys to the kingdom over to corporations.

I’m still so young, so I’m just having fun.

I probably sound like a monster, but a gruesome baby/mother pregnancy related death is really the one of the few things this show has left that could draw a reaction.

It IS creepy! I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks so...I’m not even sure what specifically creeps me out about it but I’m a hundred percent not feeling it with those two. I honestly think Rick is just super horny at this point and Jessie was super over her abusive husband from the get go. But this new dynamic…

It’s just not particularly exciting to watch the people go through the same emotional journey we saw Rick and the others go through with more much complexity back in season 3.

Around the time of “Coven,” there was a comment thread on Jez or Morning After about hopes for the next setting for AHS. I’d thrown out an idea for World’s Fair-era Chicago, complete with H.H. Holmes, Sinclair-esque meatpacking and slaughterhouses, immigrants, labor issues, and Communism. Kinda sad they didn’t go…

Denis O’Hare’s drag queen was Liz Taylor.

When “Se7en” first used the conceit of the killer metal dildo, they did NOT show the rape scene itself— they just showed a Polaroid photo of the weapon, after the fact, and that was enough to make absolutely everyone scream and squirm. That is how you do horror!

implies the creators do not trust themselves as storytellers, or maybe they’re getting lazy

Honestly, the easiest solution to this problem would be to have both a boy and a girl each wearing the costume on the package.

My daughter wore a “boy’s” Frankenstein costume last year. This year she wants to be Mickey Mouse, so she’s gonna wear a boy’s Mickey costume. As far as apparel in general goes, she’s young enough that there isn’t any difference between her body and a boy’s body. So she ends up wearing lots of boys clothes. ‘Cause…

My mom is a spitfire. She’s a tiny, fierce, mean, Irish lady. She had 6 kids in 6 1/2 years. I have a ton of great stories about her, like the time she bought a huge crystal chandelier at an estate sale several hours from our home. Lacking anything to wrap it in for the ride home, she stripped down to bra and panties,…

As a person, I say, “DANG, that’s cold, yo.” As an English teacher, I say, “DAMN STRAIGHT.”

Did your dad take photos of him smiling every animal he killed. I hope not. Because the fact that she celebrated killing is the sick part.

Clothing with names is the #1 thing that prevents us for returning it or consigning it

Once I took my mother in so she could have a day surgery performed. We were sitting in that pre op room and she was sitting in a wheel chair. Unbeknownst to me they had already given her her pre surgery cocktail. The nurse came in and put this foil looking space bonnet on her head. We sat there in silence for a moment…