No, see. Taking up a pursuit that normally enables hoooors, and then using your position to impose your distorted religious views on others to rein those wayward sluts in, is the whole point.

Yeah, this stinks of insulated idealism. To wit:

Fun Fact: there was never a shred of evidence that birth control turned women into hooors either, but America’s seething underbelly of bitter church ladies with their pinched, evil, hateful faces never gave a shit about objective reality anyway. Women are dirty, and we need to punish them for it, and that’s that.

Well, now I’m gonna have to get back into bed and hold my partner tight because she’s the best thing that ever happened to me and I hope every day that nothing bad ever happens to her.

Can we ever do enough to deserve the love dogs give us unconditionally?

Meanwhile, a bunch of neo-Nazi “Proud Boys” beat the shit out of some peaceful protesters, the NYPD arrested the peaceful protesters, didn’t do a thing about the Proud Boys, and won’t say why.

I mean, it’s not like we don’t already have a mountain of statistics showing that levels of sexual harassment and assault and abuse of women is directly proportional to the degree by which “modesty” is imposed on them or anything. Like, the exact opposite of what this guy says.

The New Yorker review is also pretty good.

Wonkette’s think-piece from yesterday is apropos and pretty amazing.

How about this, Jerry? Let’s hear you do a comedy show where it’s just the jokes that you really want to tell but can’t because “PC culture out of control” is holding you back. Let’s hear what is, I have no doubt, your finest material, the stuff you’ve really invested your heart and soul in, but can’t because “phony…

Fears about Gamble are overblown. What the case decides is whether the state and feds can charge for the same crime. The original case was a guy who served time on state charges, got out, and then got charged with federal charges for the same facts. So, a couple things:

Given that the conservative base is apparently righteously fucking angry about the Kavenaugh hearings, but for the exact opposite reason, at this point I’m not even sure Dems can take the House.

I’m trying really hard to believe that any of this matters. That the GOP, motivated by what The Atlantic points out is their commonality, newly rediscovered, that in inflicting cruelty on all others less fortunate, they fill the void in their voters that will ensure that they will always, no matter what the cost, have…

Always worth mentioning in stories about Toys ‘Я’ Us is that its bankruptcy was brought about by Private Equity firms buying the company with borrowed money, moving all that debt onto the company’s balance sheets, declaring it bankrupt, selling it off, pocketing the profits, and walking the fuck away after destroying…

I know, in these fallen times, that it looks bleak. I felt that way at times this week as well. But maybe it helps to take a bit of a longer view, and think about what things were really like in this country before.

I disagree on one point: this isn’t something new. This shit, what we have right now? It’s Richard Ratfucking Nixon’s legacy, his gift to America. This particular brand of angry, bitter, lowbrow, amoral loutishness, the particular sort of grievance that no amount of privilege or dehumanizing the less-fortunate or…

Right after the election my dad sent me a mail talking about how awful “both” candidates were, then spent the rest ranting about Hillary’s war-mongering and BUT HER E-MAILS and then, I shit you not, said of That Asshole, “he would never do anything to harm this nation or its security.” That was the last email of his I…

Start stockpiling, then. Last I heard was that Republicans have been gaining ground in close races since the hearings.

PSA: The worries about Gamble vs. US being some sort of backdoor pardon nullification of the Mueller investigation are overblown: