I’m willing to bet solid money that, regardless of venue, his inauguration speech veers off the TelePrompTer within the first paragraph and immediately swings into a long string of “who’s laughing now, assholes??” and yelling slurs at the Obamas, vowing to tear down every part of his predecessor’s legacy out of pure…

Yes, but you don’t realize (or are eliding) the fact that the strategic goals of the two sides are asymmetric, and thus are the tactics as well.

Just remember: Mississippi is the nation’s poorest state, ranking worst in the country on any number of metrics (infant mortality, maternal mortality, lifespan, average income, quality of life, etc etc) and is also not at all coincidentally the most conservative.

It’s what we always were. It’s just that that part of us is slowly dying, and — like any cornered animal — the backlash is only more intense as a result.

Jesus shit, every single promo for that movie made it looked like straight up depraved white-people shit.

It’s a nice hope, but I think it’s ridiculously naïve. Because here we are, once again, with an outright fascist about to take power, and the best the left can muster is a wardrobe change. Oh, and maybe they’ll “slam” him on twitter, like totally “eviscerate” him with “just four words,” and that’ll really show him.

Reminder for those of us who have been all, “omg you guys 2016 was such a dumpster fire” that this shit has been going downhill for a loooooong time.

You’re making a good effort to be accommodating of HomeFries, and it’s commendable, but his/her comment in immediate reply to this (and others further up) are leading me to think more and more that HomeFries is just hanging around in this thread to be combative. I gave up replying, because it just never ends and…

This is what has finally worn on me enough in talking with HomeFries that I just gave up. Let’s take a step back, and look at all of his/her comments in the thread. Pretty consistently, my own advice gets shot down for being a bullshit method to finding a life-partner (which I explicitly said it wasn’t), my own (and…

Some of the very best advice I ever read from an advice columnist (which is in itself surprising, because most advice columns are fetid swamps of bad life-choices, terrible cliched self-help gibberish, and awful people) was this: “getting hurt is the price you pay for being able to love people.” Another metaphor I…

I think you (and HomeFries above) fundamentally misunderstand the advice I’m giving. I’m not in any way (and keep insisting to the contrary) claiming a method to meet your life partner (and I specifically say that this kind of fairy-tale advice is kinda bullshit). Rather, I’m saying that if you’re depressed, and feel…

True story: I had a Feys-buk for a few years with maybe a dozen people friended, which I checked in on maybe every six months or when somebody sent me some link or whatever. Then, some dude from a couple years behind me from my highschool with a similar name to mine died of cancer, and like half of the people in the…

OK, then maybe I should have been a bit more clear about what the causal relationship actually was: I met my partner¹ because I was out in places where people like me are, and met my partner entirely by circumstance. The “that” in that sentence was “being out in places where I was more likely to meet someone with whom…

But I keep pointing out that “meeting someone” is not the only possible end-point of that trajectory. Being fine with yourself isn’t just something you do so you can be the “right” person to deserve a relationship (because holy shit is that a harsh way of looking at people), it’s something you work on so that you aren’…

Not exactly. My advice is not that if you do this, someone will come along. Maybe I should have stated it more explicitly, but my advice is more like: feeling like you need something you don’t have is making you unhappy. Instead of worrying about that, work on doing things that make you happy, and accepting yourself…

Oh man, my mother makes the best sourdough, and my partner bakes sweetbreads every now and then. It’s soooo good. Do it! Bread can be super-forgiving to new bakers! Totally worth it!

Excellent! We like programmers!

There’s a manual as a PDF floating around online. It’s remarkable not just for how clearly it lays out exactly how to practice making your handwriting look like that (and holy crap does the Spencerian hand look good), but it’s also a superb example of the kind of prose the best-educated classes were capable of…

Well, the thing is, you aren’t alone. In this particular pain, you have a shared experience with countless others (myself included).

Edith Massey