“It’s not hard at all to get jobs abroad in most fields if you are not picky about where you go.” This is an important distinction. If I am moving to escape Trump, I am going to be picky about where I go. I don’t want to go to a place that will literally be worse for me. I work in education, and I might be able to…

I need some new coping mechanisms to deal with these horrors, which seem to be both unending and fractal (the closer you look, the more small horrors you find).

I bet he cashes the check the Nobel folks send him.

“Girl, cool your tits.”

Yep, he’s our very own Cheeto Mussolini.

One night in high school my dad lost his mind and started yelling about how no one respected him and that he was going to start demanding respect from us kids. Being an asshole teenager I thought the whole thing was hilarious and started referring to him obly as ‘Sir’. Fifteen years later he’s still Sir.

That link I included showed that John was in the top 10 from as far back as measured (1870s) until the 1990s, and it is still in the top 30 boy’s names. And there are a ton of variants and translations: Jack, Sean, Ian, Owen, Ivan, Ewan, Juan, etc etc. The Aiden trend is really only the last 15 years or so, and…

I kind of want to expand this idea into an interactive website with flash cards and trivia and terrible Fallout-esque Vault-Tec cartoon drawings of the coming apocalypse/dystopian future.

We’ve always been at war with Eastasia!

So we need to abolish government while also surveilling and imprisoning people based on suspicion. So like, don’t tread on me, but also tread on me really hard?

My family tree has quite a few Augusts.

Ah, here is a perfect example of how white supremacy can be upheld by people who aren’t even white. There always has to be a handful of POC who are more racist against people who look just like them than are actual white people, and will treat non-whites as brutally, heartlessly, and violently as possible. They are…

My dude is the whitest of white people whose family hails from the midwest. He just really likes ancient roman history and wants his child’s name to reflect that love.

I’d like to bring back paterfamilias but I can already see the side-eye I would get from my dad.

Yeah, the only people I know who are called “Papa” have some sort of non-American background. Then it’s natural and makes sense.

Caspar and Melchior are out too.

See does the “i’ make it better or worse than the “y”? Braiden or Brayden? Aiden or Ayden? I honestly cannot decide.

Oh come on, someone’s gotta carry on the family’s cobblery or pocket watch repair shop.

Balthazar? BALTHAZAR? God, I hate hipsters.

Unless you think your kid is going to be getting a job in the government of King Nebuchadnezzar or paying tribute to the baby Jesus, you probably shouldn’t name them Balthazar.