The only standard that makes the slightest bit of difference is whether you’re good for each other. The age of your partner has no consequence unless you’re worried about what other people think of you, which of course we all do from time to time but ultimately it doesn’t matter.

The old equation - half your age plus seven always works. That would be a 26 year old for you. I think your sister is right.

I think if you have the self-awareness to realize that it could be creepy, you probably weren’t creepy. Idk!

I was driving through Tennessee, sometime around 2009 maybe, and I the radio ended up getting tuned to some local talk radio station, and the host of the radio show was spouting some of the most insane, regressive garbage. I think it was around the time Sotomayor had been nominated for the Supreme Court, and this guy…

I’m glad to hear lung cancer has won its battle with Rush Limbaugh.

Has there ever been a slimier little slug than Lindsey Graham?

It is annoying that the media is reporting this as “Senate acquits Trump”. The Senate didn’t acquit Trump. 43 Republicans acquitted Trump. Republicans Block Conviction of Trump should be the headline.

I keep reminding myself that the GOP, no matter how confidently they are supporting their orange lord now, is going to be relentlessly scrutinized by the lens of history in the coming years.

If you really have to be told not to put an industrial strength adhesive in your hair you shouldn’t be left alone with a glass of water.

Can we please collectively make an effort to stop calling Avril Lavine “punk”? She never was and never will be. Her excessive eyeliner and a ginned-up sassy attitude is a marketing ploy and even she admits it is not accurate.

I think there is a subset of Republicans who definitely feel it was very much not worth it.

Yup.  The GOP are all cowards.  In public, they’ll kowtow to whatever BS the extreme right wingers are spewing.  In a secret vote, they MIGHT be able to have a conscience.  

Fascinating that it was a secret ballot and so lopsided, given how the crazies (craziers???) seem to have the wind at their back.

The headline you linked to literally says “DEMOCRATS PREPARED TO ACT ALONE.” And the entire article was about how the Biden administration is determined to get this “big plan” though, even with zero GOP support. So I don’t understand how your resulting “hot take” is that “Biden doesn’t seem to have budged on his…

My first real job was at a convenience store where the usual retail malarky happened. So I’ll talk about the FIRST DAY of my second job.

Not even my first job, but an internship at a small but respected industry magazine owned by Conde Nast (I think they owned much more in the early 2000s than they do now).

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Yes, but deciding that Biden has already failed because we don’t live in the Promised Land after six days in office is profoundly dumb.

Here is going to be every left wing’s blog for the next four years.

One step, then two, then eventually you get across the bridge. It can’t be done with one leap. Savor small victories folks, they are the things that keep us going and show we can make positive changes, no matter how small.  That is progress.