Strange thing, that. She wanted to make us try to be more compliant with federal law. And we, a private Baptist school with no historical athletic accomplishments to speak of, want to win the Big-12 football championship. She’ll be missed.

So I’m originally from NH (and admittedly pretty damn far to the left of Sen. Ayotte) and sort-of-not-really know her? (she goes to my hometown parish, so I see her every Christmas, and my parents see her more regularly when congress isn’t in session.) She always struck me (as someone who hasn’t lived in NH in over a…

neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton have set a good example and I wouldn’t hold up either of them as role models for my kids.

There’s a bit more to it considering Carholics were being persecuted at the time. So it’s more like he wanted to trade one oppressive religious institution for another.

That near-billion that he lost through bad business deals... very likely was not from his own personal wealth, but from other people’s money. He swindled poor saps with tales of his ‘great business acumen’, got them to invest a near billion dollars, then drove it into the ground in one year. So they’re out ‘real…

Especially if your wife is going to travel to fashion week with $5-$10M Euros worth of jewelry.

So, do people think he was in on it or just not doing his job?

Something that I’ve noticed recently that’s common among Trump supporters is a proud lack of patriotism. They don’t try to dismiss the fact that Trump is not good for America, because fuck America. I don’t necessarily think that unquestioned loyalty to your country is a good thing, but they lack a commitment to a…

That ticket should have been reversed. Bill Weld is a tad conservative fiscally, but he was a good governor who made rational decisions, and genuinely seemed to care about governance. And coming from Cambridge, MA, Our Fair City, he certainly would have known what Aleppo was.....

Did you not want to jinx it? Because this is exactly how you jinx it!!!

i think they’re equally stupid. gary johnson’s just not as outwardly mean-spirited as trump.

I’m trying very hard to tamp down my optimism but it is starting to feel like things are finally moving in the right direction. That’s a lot of newspapers coming out against Trump and between this and the debate maybe, maybe some minds will be changed.

Don’t vote for Gary Johnson either. He may be smarter than Trump but not by a whole lot.

Best putt by an American at the Ryder Cup in 20 years

I just reread my post (too late for editing) and the damn autocorrect changed transgender to teams.

Drag is a comedy staple that’s existed since humanity defined gender roles. It celebrates the fluidity of gender. That’s why it’s funny. It’s true.

I kind of always felt that Carrie being who Carrie is in real life was in some ways making fun of herself with this sketch. As a somewhat overly sincere feminist, I found this sketch in particular as funny as fuck. You could only hit some of these touchstones if you **really know** feminism in a way that only people…

Sometimes, but the episode long one where they revealed the backstory of the two bookstore owners as power suit wearing sharks in the coke-fueled ‘80s NYC publishing scene? Pure gold.

The inverse is true too. Carrie in drag as the Pull Out King melts my soul into a puddle of joy.

I can’t believe they’re still milking this bit. I haven’t watched Portlandia in several seasons. It seemed much too in love with itself. I do adore Armisen’s “Documentary Now” show.