So, for tonight’s baseless speculation, interesting theory on why Mitch McConnell did a virtual 180 on impeachment.

Chuck is just auditioning for a job.

We know exactly how this went down. This is why we must stay on their shit 24/7. We all have our regular jobs. As Black people, our second job is boxing with racists, and yes it’s exhausting.

Thank you for reminding me about “Caste”, which caught my eye over the summer while reading reviews. The NYT reviewer wrote, “Race, in the United States, is the visible agent of the unseen force of caste. Caste is the bones, race the skin.”

I took an intro-level astronomy class as an undergrad. One of the labs involved meeting at the Foucault pendulum on campus, where we were told to figure out the length of the pendulum. My classmates started timing the period and using a compass to calculate the length. I had been standing in the back near the…

Parenting goal for me is to focus on raising a competent child, not a clever child. If they want to be clever, that’s on them. I am covering the bare minimum here. I have no time for over parenting and passive aggressive ways to raise manipulative kids.

As an engineer, I have found that asking people who know how to do things that I don’t know how to do is a really fantastic way to not waste hours teaching myself how to do it.

Right.  Usually “teachable moments” involve teaching.

Yeah, it’s so strange he seemed to think there were only two options: open the can for her or let her struggle, hungry for six hours.

Teaching her how to do something can simply mean, you know, just showing her how to use a can opener. It takes 10 seconds and is a great lesson. In fact, no joke, I remember when my own dad showed me how to open a can of diced tomatoes. Guess what, it worked, because afterwards I always could open cans and am now a…

Allow me to introduce you to Upper Michigan, Wisconsin, Vermont, Minnesota...

Yeah, you were wrong before and you’re wrong now. Sorry but beliefs of various Christian denominations vary widely, and lumping it all together is not a thing. I...it is clear you don’t know much about Christianity if you’re quoting Leviticus as the reason all churches are anti-gay. Fundamentalism is not Protestantism…

I’m going with “murdered by a person in a bear costume in a sex cult ritual”.

Per CNN: When asked if she’s concerned about possibly facing charges and overall how she is portrayed in the video, she said, “Of course I worry. That’s not who I am. I actually... try very hard to make sure that I am always doing the right thing.”

I don’t want to work either, I’m so fucking lazy. I don’t think you have to think that anything is wrong with you, it seems normal to me that we would feel this way. There are people who feel driven, and there are people who aren’t, and there are people who are socialized to feel like shit about how they are. I have a…

Your story makes me think of the 9-11 videos with those swirling clouds of paperwork that subsequently blanketed the streets of Manhattan after the Twin Towers fell. Even then I wondered at the vast amount of human labor that went into creating all those papers. How much of it was important? How much just dreary busy…

Just because some work needs to happen doesn’t mean everyone needs to be doing it all the time.

There is work that needs to get done, but frequently the work that actually needs to get done isn’t the work that’s well compensated. We’ve flipped the compensation/necessity scale, which leaves the people doing important work poorly compensated and burnt out.