Let’s not forget that the centerpiece at one of their weddings were bowls filled with cigarettes. Very glamorous!

Fun (?) Fact: Kirk/Candace Cameron’s mother and her sisters were the only people in the park where I got married to my now-ex (not counting the two of us and the Justice of the Peace). She’s an amateur photographer, and they insisted on photographing the whole thing, holding us together in a prayer circle, yelling and…

definitely a bossy, self-hating, needy, power-bottoming pillow-biter.

having the whole damn team no-show during the anthem is savvy. There’s no photographs of them sitting/kneeling for outraged chickenhawk flag-draped bullshit, but at the same time their absence sends a pretty strong message.

It’s worth noting that in German-speaking countries, particularly Austria and Switzerland, but Germany as well, the provincial classes are breathtakingly oblivious to the taboos around racist caricature. It’s not at all uncommon to see pubs in Vienna, for example, with little Negro Jazz Band figurine ensembles in…

One would think, as much as Melania obviously hates her asshole husband, she would start low-key shading him by enthusiastically embracing her predecessor’s initiatives.

Actually, it was your comment that she (paraphrasing here, because quoting people back to themselves is also a dick move) should dump him, go out and find some good dick, and then train that guy to do dishes or whatever, to which I was responding.

This. This is the thing my cousin (professional sex-therapist and part-time roller-derby star, which is the awesomest resume I can imagine and who is also my very favorite relative) says: issues with sex are usually just relationship issues that play out during sexytimes. If he’s willing to put in the effort (and he…

also noteworthy is that she writes all her comedy routines, which … yeah, sometimes they’re a bit corny, but she has a pretty sharp wit.

This demotivator always gets stars. It is my life’s motto.

This needs way more stars, because this explains a lot.

As I explained to another commenter who resides, as I do, in Perverted Yurp, the whole image of the US as some sort of free-democracy, meritocratic open society is utter bullshit that the occupying forces sold to the Germans to fight communism (let’s not forget, for example, that the liberation of Paris was delayed by…

Don’t give up hope! The reactionary/fascist contingent to which I refer is about 25% of the electorate; that’s the number that approved of Nixon the day he left office in disgrace. Those people are a lost cause, but That Asshole’s approval rating right now is about 35%. That means there’s a significant margin of…

Protip: Facebook is mostly bullshit, you are not the customer but rather the product that’s being sold, Facebook is apparently perfectly willing to let Russian intelligence services target US voters for electioneering fuckery using their user data (there’s a reason large swaths of the intel community refer to it as…

The two responses were, in brief, “I trust government officials and other experts who say that Russia is interfering in our election process,” and “I believe that claims of Russian interference are part of a disinformation campaign to distract us from domestic issues.” The former lost to the latter.

As I get older I become more and more convinced that the Civil War never really ended. The US has never had any kind of cultural reckoning over that war, and the underlying grievances and hatreds and barbarism that spawned it have lain like a cancer in the midst of the American body politic ever since.

The handle has nothing to do with it, alas! but I did go hiking once in Elsass, and it was quite lovely.

As one who also resides in Perverted Germany, I can attest to the ongoing experience of seeing my German colleagues, without fail, become crestfallen and defeated and demoralized when I explain to them just how full of shit their view of the US as some sort of meritocratic open democracy really is.

I’m glad this isn’t just me. My body deals with running like this:

I was spending time a couple days ago with a couple gaming buddies, and while we were doing game things the conversation went to music they listen to. They both immediately dropped to small-town 80s/90s favorites: Skynyrd, Green Day (for the rebellious phase, described as “when I was really into punk”),etc..