I still think anyone running for elected office should be required to pass a basic background check. If a fucking social worker (working for state or local government) or probation officer has to clear one (in addition to mental health screenings), why shouldn’t people who would weild that kind of legislative power…

“... a step in the right direction, but not time to leap for joy just yet” describes pretty much everything that Biden will likely accomplish in the next 2 years.

Remember, you don’t have to outrun the dragon; you just have to outrun David Blaine. Which is easy, because he’ll probably have trapped himself inside a glass box or some shit.

I’m going to start hoarding some old Jackson 20s so in ten years I can sell them to racists for $50 each.

Sarah, do you watch cartoons? Every villain has your pointy eyebrows! They’re very distracting because you look you’re always pissed off or trying to make a point! It's weird to look like that all the time. Your GOP brethren also have eyebrow issues!

I’ll be the one to go ahead and say that those first five Barenaked Ladies are terrific and I still listen to them all the time. They got too cutesy after that - and I lost all interest once Steven Page left - but the 90s stuff holds up so well.

What does Mark Meadows even need a job for? Take up bonsai or something man.

Call me a cynic, but I fully expect these assholes to all land on their feet eventually, because the world is unfair and annoyingly kind to mediocre white people.

I have vaccine envy, too. According to the NYT “line estimator”, I’m 97th out of 100 in my state. I’m grateful to be healthy, but at this rate, I won’t be vaccinated until the fall...if we’re lucky and production speeds up and we actually get doses in arms before they go bad.

Hope there has been enough of this sort of news to disabuse the commentariat of their consistently ageist assumptions.

“[His] social media comments reflect very ill-conceived political hyperbole in very divided times and will certainly not be repeated in the future,” Miller’s attorney told the Times.

Another official noted most of those arrested so far have no criminal records.

Honestly, we all just need to jettison the Youtube Star Wars community that likes to run on outrage.

This is an extremely bad take. Just so you know.

With all of nerdom in a non-stop race to be the worst, Star Wars fans show a real tenacity for pulling ahead in the lead.

I am so tired of people who think loving to drink or bake cookies mean they can run a bar or bakery. It’s a BUSINESS. You are WORKING.

I grew up with parents like Claudia’s. My mother died in 2016 and I still have to deal with everyone telling me what a great and powerful woman and mother she was. Anything I say is dismissed as me being spoiled or rebellious. Even though I’m 31, I still don’t have the right to my own narrative apparently.

Cool, but this is absolutely a story that needs to be covered by the news. We should not help the Conways cover up abuse of their daughter. 

Two cops showing up and suggesting that the solution is perhaps not to let her have contact with the outside world.

The apparent assumption that Taco Bell sells 1 burrito per hour is some serious bad faith innumeracy.