This. All day and twice on Sunday. Network news, cable news and social media could have started to “cut away” from Trump’s lies in 2015. This smug “Have you decency, sir ...” moment that the media is congratulating itself for is fucking bullshit. If they refuse to treat the next four years of his 2024 re-election…

this is why Chuck and Nancy and Bernie and the Clintons et al. need to be retired; their 20th century diplomacy and idealism are just not suited for this point in the country’s history. The GOP has shown an absolute willingness to assert its power whenever possible, to obstruct any legislation unless they get their…

There’s a pretty clear reason those second amendment folks seem more interested in protecting tyranny than stopping it

Yah, I didn’t want to go too far back (partly because who wants to go back to Amerca’s inter-war love affair with Hitler?) as I was exclusively thinking about the context of online political discourse - but you’re right that the rot started to set in long ago.

I think most people who have pointed out right-wing fascist tendencies growing since the Reagan Bush years can now feel thoroughly vindicated in saying “I told you so”.

It took them so long because now they don’t need him and they’re getting off the sinking ship. Sad they wouldn’t stand up to him all these years, but here we are.

It’s NEVER ‘done.’ An election means nothing is ‘over’ and we SHOULDN’T ‘breathe’. We need to keep fighting.

It’s really great that mainstream media has realized they can just cut away or not show the footage when Trump is lying. It only took them 5 years.

I think most people who have pointed out right-wing fascist tendencies growing since the Bush years can now feel thoroughly vindicated in saying “I told you so”.

All the “you’re being alarmist, what will you do when a REAL fascist shows up?” people – the whole half-of-an-electorate of them –have proven conclusively…

I like these people.

Fuck being a fruitarian, but well-done fruit bowls are delicious so I’d happily go to a place that specialized in them, dumb fad marketing or no. 

“I do not want to develop any sort of emotional attachment to anything I am eating.”

I feel the same way: it’s a good kind of boring. This is not what I anticipated when I moved back into my (lovely) childhood home with my parents 18 months ago. The rationale then was that they are getting older, need some (light) help around the house, and I could sock away a bunch of savings. With the pandemic, that…

Adding new employees should be changed to adding new independent contractors.

My parents live right up the road. They are retired and I am working from my home with my dog. He doesn’t work too much. We have been eating together almost every night and share all of the chores. Honestly, Mom usually takes over. All of us do shopping and go get takeout but we limit our trips and our exposure. We…

I like deviled eggs. That’s all the egg knowledge I have right now. That and omelettes.

Way back when . . . there were a few gifts that were repeatedly given amongst my large extended family. One was a garish purple distinctly non-Christmas ribbon. The others were cans of unusual food. Who wouldn’t want a tin of octopus or seal meat, right? These gifts were exchange for many years, until that elusive…

My uncle tried something like this once and I was the recepient of the really tastless joke gift. It was a super racist figurine (blackfaceish caricature).

This is “Give a Crappy Handmade Gift for Christmas” not “Give a nice Handmade Gift for Christmas”

I went the handmade route one year by taking a couple sets of generic round cork coasters and tying Turk’s-head knots in colored paracord worked flat (like this), and then glued the knots in place on top of the coaster to ensure that the knot would remain flat and not get twisted up. Because I was using a fairly…