I’m an atheist but I kind of think it’s pointless to try to erase all mentions of Christianity from my life to make a point. Also I recognize the fluidity of language and the idea that most exclamations or expressions have travelled far from their original meaning.

A few years ago I was on Facebook and noticed a former coworker I didn’t really know that well but had courtesy-friended who had recently moved out of town had just uploaded a bunch of pics of his new city. There was some interesting looking architecture in the album so I was merrily clicking through the pics when I…

I opened up a desk that my mom and dad had in their bedroom and found naked pics of my mom once. I mean, today I’m like “Go mom!” but back then I was like “............MOM?!!!”

Yeah Abbott went real Tea Party Tin Foil hat fast, didn’t he? He was a relatively normal attorney general.

Also the episode where Fry thinks his brother was a glory-stealing jerk who took his name and went on to be the first person on Mars and it turns out that his brother actually named his son after Fry to carry on his memory. Noooooo.

Rick Perry was my governor for 15 fucking years and I’m going to be hoarding gifs of him making an idiot of himself on national television as long as possible. They’ll go right next to that picture of him chowing down on a corndog.

I know a lot of people have complained about the cat story line being an unnecessary time suck and I’ll admit it was a super obvious, clunk metaphor but I WAS INVESTED. The cat and John Turturro had my favorite relationship on the show, and I’m not sure what that says about me or The Night Of.

Yes m’am. I had to have a few drinks in me before I was willing to go in with a friend.

I used to frequent a bar that had two toilets in the ladies room but they were both out in the open next to each other, no stalls. Why lord, why.

My favorite dive bar used to have a door without a lock. The bathroom was a long room with the toilet at the back, far away from but facing the door so there was no way to hold it shut. I have never pissed faster or more fearfully in my life.

My (male) friends unplugged their dorm room TV and threw a blanket over it for like a week.

Yeah I know what you mean, nothing tragic about losing a home where generations of your family has lived hundreds of years and developed strong cultural ties, just get over it.

What a dick way to respond to a natural disaster.

Hey man, at least my vast knowledge of a somewhat obscure environmental issue can do a little good, one comment at a time.

Believe me, I know. I was down in Terrebonne and Lafourche for 8ish years and you don’t get much more oil and gas than that, while at the same time it’s a place that’s literally disappearing off the map because of the influence of that industry! It’s a fraught relationship for sure because so many people depend on oil…

I think people are getting a little touchy because of the Katrina comparisons though... Katrina was largely a man-made disaster caused by a levee system that was improperly built and overwhelmed by a hurricane. Baton Rogue is more than an hour north of New Orleans and pretty firmly inland. Bringing up the issue of…

Global warming is thought to increase the severity of weather in general, which is why a severe rain storm like this is being grouped into a discussion of global climate change. This wasn’t a traditional Gulf storm, it was actually a stalled frontal system. Hurricanes and tropical storms are actually having a greater…

Yeah, my boyfriend’s family moved from a coastal zone to Gonzales, just below BR, two years ago and are now about to lose their house. Pretty ironic.

The area that’s flooding is Baton Rogue, which is pretty far inland. They also got 30 inches of rain in some areas which is incredible and would flood anybody. Southern Louisiana’s environment is pretty wet and is built to hold a lot of water. Much of the area being discussed is in a swampy/river delta-y environment,…

It’s a complicated issue though. I wrote about coastal land loss for almost 7 years in south Louisiana, including covering Isle de Jean Charles, the Native American settlement which is mentioned above. One of the sadder things about Louisiana’s flooding issues is that it’s not a cut and dry climate change thing. The…