My response, after the impeachment and the immolation of That Asshole’s whole criminal empire and the incarceration of his whole rotten family (Barron and Tiff are excepted, because they are [apparently!] not criminal), along with the sizable chunk of the GOP that was complicit in laundering Russian mob money and…

I frequently get asked where I’m “from” from, and what they’re really asking is my ethnic background or national origin. My response the last few years has been, “I don’t answer that question.” There’s no situation in which that question is necessary or appropriate to ask.

Last September, before it became manifestly clear what a clusterfuck Brexit is going to be (and as an EU resident watching England immolate itself after taking a huge shit on our dinner table, I say fuck ‘em), my father blurted out during a visit how glad he was for it, that he heard this story (???) about how English…

My favorite part is the thumbnail for the video at the top that has that one heron standing in the back, judging.

Another fun fact: her family also can’t pronounce my western name (like, at all). So, in keeping with the Chinese manner of giving names, my partner came up with a Chinese version of my name that:

So, your solution for giving kids names that fight patriarchy is to name kids literally after their fathers?

I’m in a similar situation. Fun fact! In Chinese families, the wife doesn’t usually take the husband’s family name.

HamNo had an article on Gawker (#rip) about how the left (or at least a radical, activist subset of them) needs to adopt the same tactics used by the anti-abortion radical activists on the right. Line the entrance to gun shows with screaming protesters waving gory pictures of murder victims. Make opposition to…

What’s the over-under on this surviving a constitutional challenge or any of the multiple lawsuits? I’m guessing somewhere between “zero” and “lol fuck you get outta my courtroom with this bullshit.”

anecdote from personal experience: I can tell you, when your partner starts dropping hints about how “monogamy isn’t the only way for a relationship to be” and “maybe we’d be happier if we were more open” etc. etc., it is mostly just laying the groundwork to justify having feelings (physical or emotional, whichever)…

If posters like this are what AV Club is going to be bringing into Kinja, I think this is going to work out well for everybody.

I really like the part where the Brexiteers are dead certain that they’ll get everything they want (advantageous trade deals, even better if they also disadvantage Brussels; kick out all the foreigns and seal their borders; not have to pay one penny for a “divorce bill;”etc etc) and suffer no consequences whatsoever…

came here to post this, thinking I was up to some clever shit. Was pleased to have been corrected.

Are they sure that’s the right descriptor?

I thought for a second that was some fucked-up version of John Waters.

Oh man, a statue of Missy’s disco-ball suit from WTF would be soooo dope. brb listening to all her freaky deaky stuff on heavy rotation again.

Well, here’s the thing. EVE is a vast game. There’s so much in there, the universe is so big, it will take a long time to feel like you’ve “mastered” any part of it. I’ve been playing since 2008 (with a big gap in the middle), and there’s still stuff I know next to nothing about (and I say this while researching for…

As always, there is a relevant XKCD:

Well, to be fair, “global warming” and “climate change” had been used in the scientific literature, but to describe two different things. “Global warming” referred to the increase in average global temperature, while “climate change” referred to the consequences of that warming (which might locally manifest in things…

Nope. It was GOP strategist and GWB buddy Frank Luntz who got all the conservative think tanks to change their talking point to use “climate change” back during the Bush administration specifically to make global warming less scary, and thus to undercut efforts to stop it. Here he is saying this very thing: