Fun Fact! Friedrich Drumpf, after fleeing the Kingdom of Bavaria and being denied reentry on account of avoiding conscription (ie, draft dodging), and running some brothels in Canada that were notorious for being seedy, last ended up in Queens, deep in Lucky Luciano’s territory (again, trying to run booze and hookers),…

So what now? All this suggests to me that crashing out without any deal at all is increasingly likely.

That body-language is 100% “no, shut up and listen while I’m talking.” Her, I can see her teeth grinding from here.

Being related to a man who shares many behavioral traits with That Asshole, I’m 70% certain that “conversation” in this case involves him sitting at the table bloviating about “issues of the day” for hours on end while she is obliged to tell him how right he is about that thing. Probably while chewing with his mouth…

This is one thing John Schindler keeps saying with which I actually agree (I disagree vehemently with some of what he says, and his approving quoting in the past of that racist dogwhistle about how “you can’t build your future with other people’s children” is particularly egregious). To wit: Russian fuckery doesn’t cau…

Didn’t a report just come out stating that the Leave campaign had acted unlawfully in the run-up to the vote?

So what’s the likely outcome now? I’d guess the UK is going to crash out with nothing and find itself utterly fucked, but I don’t know anything about UK politics. 

boy, that really kicked things up a notch in the second part.

I disagree. Deplatforming works. Here, consider this case: after WWII, the UK released a bunch of its home-grown fascists, and one of them (I forget all of the names here, because despite reading the article about this within the last week, I can’t find it anywhere) went right back to yelling shit in the public…

As John Oliver once put it on another topic: a reasoned consideration of the facts is not how they got to where they are, and it’s not what’s going to get them out.

Apologies. I should have better identified the culprits, as you are correct. This was (almost entirely) the fault of the English voters.

As they say, democracy is the theory that the people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

This is some correct shit.

“Choosing the Best includes a similar exercise using adhesive tape. The exercise involves placing tape on a student’s skin, then removing it to show what has transferred from the skin to the tape. What remains on the tape is supposed to represent the emotional baggage resulting from sex.”

kazoos/vuvuzelas/super-gay looks for the WBC counter-protests, plodding, dopey sousaphone music for the neo-nazi shitheads:

swords to ploughshares. 

Let’s not forget: hundreds of thousands of civilians, mostly women and children, died in the bombing campaigns the US led in Iraq. The US media, and most others, said hardly a word about it.

If you asked Lindsay Graham point-blank about his sexuality (which, btw, would be seriously inappropriate, so please don’t; this is a thought experiment), I’m virtually certain he would do the same. And yet he’s been discretely living together with some guy in an apartment in his district. The locals all know, and…

hooo boy, I really miss the heyday of Michael K over at Dlisted and his blind items. They were so trashy and delicious.