My generally Republican sister was ranting about how people paint the South with broad strokes, and she mentioned that if it’s so important to bus students from metro areas into diverse areas, we might investigate bussing students from rural areas into more diverse areas, as well, so that they might have the…

Nashville is also home to Fisk University and Tennessee State University. They’ve had their own election protests, although not as heavily televised because they’re smaller than Chicago, NY, and Boston.

Interesting! (I wasn’t arguing so much as confirming it was a fact and not a guesstimate - as I said, my anecdotal experience has been vastly different.)

I am rewriting this story to include a baseball bat and some profanity, with her standing helplessly nearby.

Ugh, I need to move. I’m in Kansas, feeling like a zombie ... and all my damned neighbors are elated.

I think a lot of us invest more in pets. It’s simpler. And safer.

I keep thinking that, and then I read old Pence interviews about health care and reproductive rights.

Is it that you have none?

I think they’ll probably start you out with shock therapy. Internment camps will be later.

I think he genuinely believes - but is too polite to say - that women should be a slave to their reproductive functions. He thinks condoms are an unreliable modern invention.

.... where did that figure come from? It’s anecdotal, but the Trumpkins in my life all make about half that or less.

Reproductive rights. LGBTQ rights. Anyone not him.

All dogs are excellent, but I am partial to bearded dogs. Obviously.

I mean, I believe it. I just didn’t know.

For all the crap she put herself through for him, I have to believe they are besties.

I did not have her pegged as a fluffer-dog kind of lady, or even a dog person.

Cannot unsee.

Wait, that’s heaven backwards? OH.

There’s my thing I learned for today.

I love you. You are invited to my workplace to help me come up with responses to my assholes.

One of my family members brought up politics on Tuesday vis a vis, “This is who I voted for.” None of us are speaking this week.