I am the only person in America who thought he got in a few good ones with the empty chair speech, even though I’m pretty sure that he and I would agree on zero things IRL.

Can you imagine a more interesting piece of decor that a framed joint given to you by Willie Nelson?

Mark, if you, like me, owned a dogeared copy of Bear Attacks, you’d know the park ranger maxim “a fed bear is a dead bear.” That’s because bears, when they begin to associate humans with food, often escalate to attacking humans when they realize that they’re made of meat.

Exactly—any time you have “blanket’ rules; it’s going to mess someone up.

Exactly. My partner became a student in the school where I was teaching... what were we to do, get a temporary divorce until he graduated? Silly!

I am grateful that I’m not single and trying to teach at this university. It would be so easy to meet with someone, have a great time, and then find out they are a student in…

Just curious, do you also agree that she should be subject to Title IX investigation because it was in poor taste or because you thought it condoned Ludlow’s behavior?

I think most universities already have policies in place around dating students you’re currently teaching. Where I went to graduate school, they certainly did. And I knew somebody in the program who ended up in a relationship with an undergraduate he had taught before. They disclosed it to the department head, and…

Argh, I’m risking doxxing myself, but I went to this school and one of my friends married a professor. He was never *her* professor, but he did teach in the same sub-school. It would have been ridiculous to ban their relationship (they met doing an extra curricular activity, she was over 20 when they started dating…

Great. Another way for the police to selectively arrest minorities.

Yes, but as someone said upthread, it will require Cosby to start actually answering questions about this rape. And that may be all she and her lawyer are after.

Actually he’s upset because a paparazzi got a photo of the baby today that made its way around various publications. I think this is interesting because when someone like a Kristen Bell makes a stand against paps shooting kids who didn’t consent to being in the public spotlight, she’s hailed as a hero. But when Ashton…

Beverly flat-lined, not Deacon. She is dead, dead, dead. Dr. Prettyboy saved Deacon to live in guilt and idealize his martyr sister forevermore. That’s why the girls liked Beverly, and why she mentioned moving to Nashville to play happy extended families, so when she dies they’ll be sad and it won’t feel like she was…

My guess is it’s left over from the Soviet era, which had amazing maternity leave. My mom took 6 paid months, maybe longer, then a year unpaid, at which point you could get your unpaid leave extended if you wanted to. My mom chose to go back to work part time for another couple years.

And she gets slammed whenever she actually does something with her agenda. Make school lunches healthier- our kids aren’t eating this healthy food, which is totally your fault (I just saw the new options in my old high school under these reforms- WAAAY better than the shit they served when I was there). Let’s Move-…

What a fucking world when a con artist spawns a sociopathic torturer and claims to be the harbinger of a return to ‘family values.’

That would involve inheriting boatloads of that sweet environment raping cash. The only thing Huckabee’s kids are likely to inherit is diabetes.

I hear where you’re coming from. It’s important to remember though, that violent crime really was terrifyingly high in those days. I used to work with a guy who grew up in South L.A. who told me that back in the ‘90s, if you saw some guys driving slowly down the street in a convertible, you ran for your life. If you…

To be fair it was 1992 and no damn liberal was getting elected president without supporting that tough on crime nonsense. It’s not like there was another option that didn’t involve expanding the police state. Heck they only actually got in there because Perot split the conservative ticket.

You know quite well there’s nothing “puzzling” about the move. She wants to appeal to the current issues and the current political climate. If you want politicians to continue to do so, you should offer them praise when they take the stances we’ve been asking them to take, not immediately go on righteous rants about…

I tip at Chipotle. It makes me feel a little better about the sheer amount of food I’m about to put into my body.