I wonder sometimes about our (western) relationship to animals and the extreme anthropomorphism that we put into it. The moment is important for us, so we drag and prop them into our moment because it’s so important to us. How about them? I wish we could gauge what they want and feel. We may love them too much for…

I’m relieved that this was an improvised thing. If this had been the plan, I would have been upset that they didn’t use a wagon or something to get him down the aisle more comfortably.

I lost my virginity in the 8th floor stairwell of the main engineering & science hall at college. Raw concrete, freeze-ass cold, and pitch dark except for the glow of the emergency exit sign one floor down. I had just met this Daniel Ash lookalike guy at an Alien Sex Fiend show, and I just wanted to fuck him…

about 92% of things posted on that sub are fake, which is why i love reading it

I think you’re missing the point. Their job IS entertainment. It’s not about what they want or don’t want, it’s about what they’re paid for. They’re paid to get people to watch.

I think the bulk of them have forgotten how to do journalism at this point.

Trump “respecting boundaries”? Other people don’t even exist in the Trump-o-verse, so how could they possibly have boundaries?

“He’s also repeatedly referred to the victim as ‘the accused’ during the judicial council hearing[.]”

I was reading about this last night. The “keep your knees together” quote is getting the most attention, but I think some of the other things he said were even worse. After acquitting the alleged rapist, he offered some fatherly advice (emphasis mine):

Her mouth says “Trump” but her eyes scream “SANCTUARY!”

“Last week, New York state assemblyman Bill Nojay fatally shot himself last week in a Rochester cemetery, just feet away from his family’s burial plot”

This raises the awfulness to whole new levels. How many more persons and institutions are going to give Trump their imprimatur, and possibly the election, by either treating him like a valid presidential candidate or by colluding with him to lie about stuff that’s actually quite important.

SMH at that guy “Rich” who sent an email criticizing Shortal for being “....loud, arrogant, over demonstrative, seems to take over control of the talking.”

Tom wanted the relationship to be more public than she was comfortable with.

I’m pretty sure the people who died for our freedoms didn’t do it so that this country would become a place where you have to show dogmatic loyalty to symbols as if we lived in a dictatorship, saluting “Dear Leader” and bowing down lest we be marked a traitor. Let’s save that forced patriotic bullshit for North Korea.

Freedoms that make white people uncomfortable aren’t real freedoms. Study it out.

We also have the freedom to kneel if we want to when we hear the anthem. Or turn our backs. Or dance a jig. Those people died for her freedom to do that too.

While you are correct about the song, I think many people just don’t understand or listen to the actual words. Add in the way that pieces of the song are used for commercials and quasi-propaganda and it’s easy to see why many don’t understand that it was actually a “calling out” of the hipocrsy in the US after…

I like to think Andy Breitbart leaving this earth was less a death and more like a product recall.