I’ll admit that the idea was somewhat attractive when I was in high school because it gets kind of frustrating when you live in a part of the state that tends to be forgotten about by everybody. And the northern part of the state is drastically different climate wise, which was important to me as a young…

Buddy, if Cascadia becomes a thing I’m moving there.

Any big agriculture from SoCal is dependent on the water from NorCal, so divorcing the two would be a bad idea for them because us in the north already aren’t keen on the way the water is distributed (it’s killing the fish!). Also relevant, if you have the time, please email and harass Warren Buffett to keep his…

Is this New California thing supposed to be another state of Jefferson thing? They’ve been trying that ever since the 40s, and it’s never gotten as far as it did the first time (they even swore in a governor the first time, but then Pearl Harbor happened a couple days later and they decided to shelve fighting for…

I wonder if licensing will still hamper them from adopting one of my favorite What If?s of What if the Punisher merged with the Venom Symbiote? The answer: it would be really cool. And I get that these stories didn’t have the same depth to them all the time, but sometimes I just want to see that someone else had the…

Alright, for some stupid reason (I don’t respect my free time?) I just spent the last 20 minutes Googling all 106 House members who signed in support of the Texas lawsuit and... 99 of the 106 are white men. Shocker.

Reading some of the things where Trump and his cult seem to be insisting that it’s in the Constitution that we all know who the president elect is by midnight on Election Day makes my brain hurt. They didn’t have TV or the internet back in 1789, they didn’t even have stupid telegrams! They all had to wait for their…

I worked at a west coast theatre chain when I was 19, and I really didn’t care if people snuck in food as long as they actually tried to sneak it past me. If you have a tall can in the cup holder while I do my theatre checks I will definitely confiscate that, you’re terrible at being sneaky and you don’t deserve to…

I’d say Miller is smart at least, just also an evil white supremacist piece of human garbage. He manages to get most of his evil plans to work, which is more than you can say about some of those d-bags. I mean, we’re the worse for it, but I think underestimating him is a mistake.

It’s almost as if they’re all rich enough to have access to good healthcare. Motherfuckers.

I ran into my roommate who I was living with at the start of the pandemic and we talked about this. He's technically classified as a healthcare worker, he does work helping developmentally disabled clients, but rarely is his type of work considered part of that umbrella even though what he does is fundamental to the…

Maybe something along the lines of “Serve the People” making reference to the “protect and serve” motto they claim (but don’t apply), with a big emphasis on how cops are used to protect property and assets while actively harming people. The people might also be better served by other services rather than police too.

Agreed, but it’s Newsome’s pick. I’d be pretty surprised if anyone very progressive gets the spot.

Rumor is Alex Padilla is being considered for that though. Honestly, I’d love it if she would primary Feinstein. 

Anyone know if Katie Porter is going to run for Senate anytime soon? I want a chance to vote for her.

I’m with you on that. I made it through Dissident Gardens but it took me a few tries. Whereas I’ve read Amnesia Moon three times now (The Arrest makes reference to White Walnut and their opaque fog, so it embraces the similarity). Of his other two new novels I quite liked A Gambler’s Anatomy, but The Feral Detective…

Ah, the Johnny Got His Gun situation.

I believe HIMYM coined the term “revertigo” for this reason.

There are 40 million people in California. There is no way that Uber wasn't going to find a way to restructure to stay in the market, it's too big to ignore. 

If I recall correctly Chester A. Arthur was also a very fancy partier, but I would bet that even given inflation Trump has spent more (although Chester was president before the secret service also became the protective detail for the president, so hard to compare there).