I grew up with umps going STEEEEEEE and quarterbacks going BLUE EIGHTY!!!!!!

Trump has about a 25 percent approval rating with Latinx voters

It’s an attempt in right-wing circles to de-legitimize. Much like when you’d see people post “Barry Soetoro” to reference Obama. It’s used often when either the nickname “hides” something “ethnic” or when it makes one seem more ethnic. But it’s all lame. It’s like, do you not know that people take on nicknames? And…

I’ll say that it is interesting how little Barron fits into the Trump narrative. Like, it’s fine that he can exist outside of the public eye. But past Presidents did actually travel with and talk about their kids. Poor Barron is almost non-existent. So strange.

Man. 18 years. I recall the whole thing vividly, even if I was miles from New York. (Here is my dumb little diary.)

I’ll just pile on, having worked (and still sometimes filling in for “fun”) in the liquor industry. Yes, a wine that wholesales for $6.66 is probably going to retail at the store for $9.99. But, as people have noted, a restaurant can’t make just a single pour and hope that everything’s going to be fine.

RE:

I work on cuneiform for a living. While many tablets are in great shape, some have breaks, etc. When transliterating (i.e. representing cuneiform graphemes with Latin graphemes), we often use brackets to represent that break. So, say you have a sign lugal (Sumerian for “king”) but the last part of the sign is missing.…

I really don’t know why more people aren’t doing this. I bought a car recently. The sales rep and I were talking and the conversation drifted to sports and he mentioned that he had played football for a few years for the local NFL team. But now, he was working and going to school.

And boom goes the dynamite!

Well, yes. Which makes me ask (and the whole reason I came here was because of this picture): Who the fuck moves mulch in khakis and a button down?!? I got something like a hundred bags of mulch last spring. If I were forced to do that in khakis and a button down, I can tell you that at the end of that day, I’d have…

Just wrote a Twitter thread about this. But it’s so true. My nephew just started college at a major state university. Only 1 our of 4 of his professors were tenured— the rest were adjunct. In searching one of his professors, you could track how he has moved all around the country taking adjunct jobs for years. That is…

Yeah. I work with a bunch of Evangelicals, though we also have some on our staff are also Jewish. One of those Jewish employees told me that one of our (Evangelical) employee spoke to her after a trip to Israel and said “I just came back from your country!” I don’t know how, exactly, she replied (I’m sure she was…

Perhaps we need to arrive at a definition of “conspiracy theory.” I think for most, if some rich people commit a crime, but use their wealth and status to cover up said crime, that’s still a conspiracy— even if lots of rich people have done it/gotten away with it in the past.

Also, this isn’t even close to historically true. Rape wasn’t some accepted thing in the past. It was often explicitly illegal.

Re the sock: I also have always been confused by this, even though I have heard from actual friends that this is a thing. Why? No, just position some tissue paper or a paper towel in the expected target area (sometimes you miss and then have to scrub out some carpet or whatever) and take care of business. Then you…

Yup, because in 2019 demonstrating against racism and mass murder is political. God dammit.

“It was a long letter, much of it complaining about the ridiculous and expensive exercises. It was...also a small apology for testing the short range missiles, and that this testing would stop when the exercises end,”

People really don’t get how athletic NBA players are. Unless he went to one of about eight schools, the fifteenth guy on any given bench is, like, the best athlete his college program has seen in three decades

“A properly placed ‘fuck this fucking fuck’ is so satisfying as an emotional release, I say it regularly as a way to avoid therapy.”