It’s a New Orleans brass band hat

Alabamian here! We always thank Mississippi for being a little bit worse than us, but yep, it’s  shitpile down here.

Also, I appreciate Rand Paul’s resolve, even if I abhor every single one of his principles.

I am a Florida resident just outside Tampa. I am no fan of Rick Scott but if there is one thing I have to give him credit for it’s management of this storm response. The government has offered resources upon resources to get people out of their homes that are willing to evacuate. They have assistance to get people to…

For the people without the means or option to leave, my heart breaks.

Cajun Navy rolled into my town earlier today. I believe they were able to get out so they can make their way to catch a flight, trying to verify, but I think they will make it.

For me, the scariest episode was 27, about the Hinterkaifeck murders. Shudder.

Same here. I’m glad they’re using a mixed-media approach, because I couldn’t figure out how the podcast’s sprawling stories would translate to an episodic format. (And I’m looking forward to this because as much as I adore the podcast, he seems like he’s starting to run out of material.)

I just read this lengthy ass blog post about a lawsuit stemming from a private Facebook mom group.

The best explanation of the difference in racism I’ve ever heard is the old adage, “In the South, black people can get close, but not go high; in the North, they can go high but not get close.”

Yeah, I heard one of these guys talk about the Left’s “revisionist” history. And I’m like, wha??? If anyone is revising history it’s these motherfuckers who act like the South wasn’t waging war against their own country. That they weren’t in open rebellion. That they weren’t traitors. After the Civil War, the leaders…

Uh, I am in NY, near PA, and I’ve been to the Gettysburg museum (about a 4 hr trip) and people here in the sticks fly Confederate flags. They were an invading fucking army! We had a ton of abolitionists! This isn’t your fucking history, it’s a meth addled dream you had after watching too much Duck Dynasty!

Absolutely right. (Mississippi person here, who saw plenty of our stupid fucking state flags in this whole sickening parade of bullshit).

As a fellow southerner who moved literally across the country, I wholeheartedly agree with you. Cheers!

Fucking Robert E. Lee refused to ever wear his uniform again, refused to be buried in it, and refused to allow anyone wearing a confederate uniform to be at his funeral. He considered the “cause” fucking dead and so should these fuckers.

Fellow southerner here. For the life of me, I don’t get it. I’m no historian, but I fell pretty confident saying that many Germans around today are descended from Nazi soldiers, but they don’t have the need to run around saying “I’m just honoring my great grandfather who was a courageous soldier.” Why do Americans do…

Everything you said is so true. A black friend of mine compared slavery with the Nazi Holocaust, and after really thinking about it, I concluded that she was right. Just as we would not support Rommel, Hitler, and other Nazi statues in Germany, we cannot stand Confederate statues in America. It does not matter of…

Seriously. That “Confederate soldiers were US military” has got to be the BIGGEST lie I’ve heard today. Um, no. Actually Confederate soldiers were the ENEMY to the US military.

Kristen Stewart was probably also unhappy because she was doing the Twilight series. Robert Pattinson openly hated on the movies, and no one questioned him or his emotions about it. Stewart’s done primarily (or exclusively?) indies since Twilight, and she’s both seemed happier and gotten much better reviews for her…

I have complicated feelings about Jennifer Lawrence. I don’t think she’s putting on an act, but I do think that the media choses to obfuscate the reasons for her swearing, drinking, and oversharing by packaging it as “relatability” and “realness.” I think she might actually be pretty unhappy, and I wonder how she’ll…