Professional sports in the US, where billionaires can cry pauper and fuck over the taxpayers into funding their stadiums (while collecting all profits) and be seen as victims when players hold out for more money. No wonder Trump wanted to be an NFL owner so bad. 

I agree that a lot of the hate is misogyny, like 90% of it is, which is why my hackles go up whenever someone starts railing against it.

Shallow, vapid morons who make money spreading insecurities to young and vulnerable people. They are actively making society worse, and they have the gall to demand respect for it as well.

I’m still getting over the post-9/11 craze for “freedoms” (plural) and “blood and treasure.” Like, “This republic will expend any amount of its blood and treasure to defend our God-given freedoms.” As if some blowhard on Fox News circa 2002 were rallying the rag-tag troops at Valley Forge. If you ever hear or read the…

I’m a women’s photographer and I get some good influencer clients and mostly bad ones. The good ones contact me, tell me they will want shoots with x images, digitals only with commercial (social media) copyrights every 6-8 weeks in a certain style with x outfit changes, get a quote, sign a contract, and after 2 or 3…

Influencing requires an almost impossible plethora of skills since it’s “a hybrid of many jobs,”

Being a Kim Kardashian impersonator is hard damn work.

This. To hell with the inevitable cries of “ageism” that we’ll be hearing from Bernie’s supporters. This job sucks the life out of those who take it seriously. Remember how quickly it wasted Obama? Now the public will be considering that for a man in his late 70's who now has cardiac issues.

I wish him a speedy…

You mean these men have terrible taste in women? Because there’s nothing wrong with Travis Scott. He seems like a really balanced young man, actually.

GOOD, honestly. It is one of the top 10 best pieces of television I’ve ever seen, and PWB shouldn’t be pressured into creativity just because we as a culture appear to love sequels. For example, Game of Thrones should have gone on hiatus to fully map out the plot of the remaining non-book seasons, rather than ...…

Amazing commenting in this thread Arnheim, the Rear Admiral, and New Around Here (you fit right in)! You guys should write for a living if you don’t already.

Americans also seem to believe that, regardless of how shitty our leaders may be, there is some inherent quality present in the American character that prevents from ever being willing to go down the same road Germany did.

I personally think motivated reasoning is doing more of the heavy lifting than lack of education is right at the moment.

The damage that the belief in American exceptionalism has done abroad is huge. The damage it has done domestically is incalculable: the steadfast faith that it can’t happen here is fueled by many decades of propaganda shouting “keep the world safe for democracy!”.

I agree with most of what you say except that “Trump knows exactly what he is doing”. He doesn’t, Bill Barr does and he was brought in for this exact reason, to hide his crimes & if that doesn’t work, keep them all out of jail. This is a little long but well worth the 10mins to truly know your history.

The “God given rights” thing always cracks me up.

I think a lot of people banked so hard on faith that the systems of checks and balances work that they are dumfounded when they aren’t because it requires actual effort by those in power. People have become complacent that the systems and rules just work and don’t become civically engaged and thus it allows the shit…

Given the average American’s understanding of basic Civics concepts—or their understanding of the founding documents they swathe themselves in (having had to memorize the Preamble in eighth grade doesn’t count as having read the entirety of the founding documents, folks)—it follows that Trump’s using the “if the…

If you like factual podcasts, I’d heartily recommend BBC Radio 4's In Our Time, presented by Melvyn Bragg. They’re just 45 minutes, and it’s very eclectic: One week it’s about Confucianism, next week it’ll be about the Franco-Prussian War, next week it’ll be about Dark Matter or anti-Protons or Freida Kahlo or the…

The irony of Jax calling someone else thirsty is not lost on me.