Yeah, contractor to the government with a .gov and .mil email. This is day one cyber security training for everyone at all agencies.

I can't wrap my head around this. I am a mid level bureaucrat and the degree to which this violates a shit ton of laws/rules is made clear to me at least annually.

TW: Unpopular opinion.

Big scraggly beards are gross. Faces are nice.

I'm not saying there's any "injustice," just that it's stupid to make a blanket judgment of Midwestern food based on how a shitty chain restaurant cooks steaks.

Uhh...I must not have been reading closely enough. Casseroles are manna from heaven and I will arm wrestle over it if I have to. I just made one *for a dinner party*. I'm hardcore pro-casserole.

Because ... that's representative of all or most Midwestern food? There is absolutely nothing that could be called gross in the West, Southwest, New England, Mid-Atlantic, South, etc.? Sue me but I don't think how Cracker Barrel cooks a steak necessarily says anything substantive about Midwestern food.

Or maybe there is no "Midwestern food sensibility," just "food sensibility"? I've had shitty food on the coasts and I've had amazing food in the Midwest. There are steakhouses in the Midwest that would never, ever cook like a steak like goddamn Cracker Barrel does, yet I suppose they'd be lumped into the "Midwest food…

Mayo is the devil's condiment.

It's weird, we consider ourselves Midwesterners here in Chicago, but I'll be damned if this whole "Midwestern food sensibility" applies to the city. The idea that a place serving steak defaults to medium (instead of medium rare) is insane to me. Hell, I get my burgers medium rare any time I get the option.

I disagree with just about everything you've written here. I think the self-flagellation about how we don't say we love America enough is both untrue and unhelpful. But more to the point, the Right isn't one big happy united front, not even close. They're at CPAC, which is the second from the right on the spectrum…

I hate to say it, but... the American Right sorta nails it on actually being positive about America as a concept. That isn't to say that they are honest about it, but the fact is that even as a pretty liberal person I get really tired of the constant stream of "OMG AMERICA IS THE WORST" from my liberal friends.

The only way this can end is with one of you getting called up on stage by Wayne LaPierre to receive the AR-15 you've won in a raffle.

Word. When my mom got remarried to my stepdad I wasn't invited...

wow this is...rage-inducing. thin mints can be bought anywhere. samoas are truly special

Kelly Faircloth is riiiiiiight. The fact that Tagalongs are ranked below Trefoils is a goddamn travesty.

This is some brave shit.

that's what human legs look like.

Huh, her thighs look like mine.

There's really something wrong with you if you read this story and think to yourself, "Well, sure he was abusive, but she kind of deserved it."

Stop.