That is an excellent self-care routine :) Keep it up, and really do feel free to reach out if you need a sounding board. I am around the comments quite a bit.

I teach and advise university students in 2 different programs, and many of my students & I have talked about this exact question. Also, when I was going through grad school, I wrestled with this question myself. It’s a tough, very personal decision. If you need someone to listen, let me know.

So it’s going to be a TV anthology version of The Purge: Election Year. Got it.

I remember that one!

Damn, I love Jason Isbell. He’s a hell of a musician, and he has no problem calling out idiots on Twitter.

Folks, I’ve been tweeting about this all day, and it keeps getting worse. The person in charge of the account was able to delete and replace the incorrect “apologizes” tweet. The original tweet that misspelled Du Bois remains on the account, nine hours later. Yes, the account coordinator has posted a new tweet with…

I KNOW, RIGHT? I hated that character!

The first two seasons of The OC are, indeed, glorious. Actually, I liked most of the 4th season, too, aside from one piece of ridiculousness I won’t spoil for you here.

Tom Hiddleston IS.... Phoebe’s super-enthusiastic boyfriend Parker from that one episode of Friends.

Maybe my cousin and her friend are not ever going to get it, but I refuse to believe that there aren’t other folks who do get it (or will have it sink into their brains over the next few weeks/months). Folks who typically vote Republican but are uncomfortable with what’s happening in Trump’s administration. Would a…

I get what you’re saying, but I don’t think that’s the case here. My cousin and her friends are not really known for their intelligence. Gaga would have had to go up there & sing “Fuck You, Trump” for them to get it.

One of my very conservative cousins posted about loving the halftime show, and one of her equally conservative friends posted the following response: “...actually it was very refreshing and hopeful that a star used their platform to be patriotic and NOT POLITICAL!”

Fax him! I’ve been struggling to reach him via phone, too, but he apparently gets all of the faxes. Yes, in 2017, 1980s tech is the most efficient way to reach our awful senator. I used this handy-dandy tool to do it: https://faxzero.com/fax_senate/75. The link takes you straight to Toomey’s number.

I have, too! It’s also great when you’re just feeling under the weather but want to do something to feel better.

Good.

He was a co-head writer with Tina Fey during some key SNL years, and then took on the job solo during the 2008 election (the one that gave us Fey’s impression of Sarah Palin). I am not that surprised.

I’m FROM Alabama, and my teeth grind involuntarily every time I hear his voice. Fucking hell, that asshole Sessions. You know what makes me even madder? Knowing that Roy Moore is just waiting in the wings for Sessions to get confirmed so he can run for Sessions’ seat.

Everyone’s comments are making me feel so much better about also hitting Rouge status this year. I had salespeople at my regular store know me by name by the end of the year.

Alabama native here. Reading this story, and knowing what the al.com comments are like, I cosign this comment.

What’s been most fascinating to me about that story is that Pozner used to be a conspiracy theorist himself, at least until his son was killed. It’s incredibly upsetting to realize that the only thing that will snap conspiracy theorists out of their worldview is something horrible happening to them or their loved…