“Well gracious! I wasn’t sure about whether systemic oppression of underclasses and minorities and disadvantaged groups was really a problem, and I didn’t really take the urgent outcry that the Black music community has been putting out for the last 40 years seriously, because all that hiphop rap music just promotes…

It’s the “banality of evil” scenario. If a system exists in which people can do wrong without consequence, then there’s no need to find such people, or train them. They’ll come out of the woodwork of their own accord.

My favorite part of the wildly bizarre digital short “The External World” is the “intermission” section with its completely contextless statement, “and I found out the hard way that even turtles have vaginas, so…”

Kids these days. (*sigh*) Here:

They were warned. It was explained to them. Still, they persisted.

Pedantry Corner: “11 years old” is the description of a quantity, and is not hyphenated. “11-year-old” is a compound adjective, and is hyphenated. Seeing writers fuck this up gives me FISH RAGE.

Update: here’s Milo softpedaling pederasty in recordings released this weekend (just in time for his not-a-keynote-but-definitely-prominent address at CPAC this week!):

So Buzzfeed is reporting that, among other measures under consideration, ICE would prosecute parents who enter the country with small children, deporting all undocumented immigrants to Mexico, even those who aren’t Mexican citizens, still violating the INA by discriminating based on religious background, and…

Probing the limits of what you can get away with is exactly how autocrats get started. It gets shot down the first time, but after a few years’ time it’s normalized, and then you either get it passed because you’ve managed to manufacture enough crises in the meantime that people will accept it, or you get it passed by…

credit to starwarsisgay.tumbler.com, my favorite of the “snarky flaming lesbian social-justice activist with a nerd fetish” tumblrs.

The thing I love about bees so much is that some of them can’t fly for shit. I watched one fly full-speed facefirst into the wall, fall down, stumble up, shake herself off, take off backwards, spin around, do a bunch of barrel rolls and loop-de-loops, and then repeat the whole process for my entire lunch break. It was…

Jeezus shit, she looks like she’s aged a decade since the election.

Some other commenter here made the observation that it’s very distressing to be experiencing the “Contributing Factors” chapter in real time.

Sorry if I come off as humble-bragging; you are right that it’s unbecoming. I should maybe add that 1) in my field, degrees don’t count for much, especially when one (set) of them is from your home country and not valued in your current one, 2) because of that, I’m playing a lot of catch-up, and 3) when I finish…

“Incurious” has become my new favorite word. Like, can you imagine living a life where you were actively ignorant? Where you were not motivated to, like, know things?

Nice strawman, asshole. Nobody is refusing to admit that Salafist and Wahabbi (et al) radical Islamists commit terror attacks. But you know who else does? White supremacists, who have killed more people on US soil than any other group, including over eight thousand lynchings since the Civil War (you might note that…

Addendum: Jim Jeffries, it should perhaps be noted, was not on the clip you showed.

Way to bury the lede with that Bill Maher was accompanied onstage by JOHN FUCKING WATERS. That man is a national treasure and makes even Maher (who is not going to earn forgiveness for his own islamophobic bullshit just because he calls out people who are worse human beings than he) watchable.

I take some solace in the observations that 1) Judge Whatsisname does not let himself get dragged in by that shit and looks visibly alarmed, and 2) That Asshole’s posture has gotten distinctly worse in the last three weeks.

Take some consolation in the fact that his Nat’l Security Adviser is getting himself into deeper and deeper shit about his phone calls with the Russian Ambassador last December, as he has now apparently been caught lying about the extent of it and had to walk that shit back.