The only thing I’d suggest is that this line doesn’t strike me as correct: “Their first instinct was to react with fear...”.  I think rather, their first reaction was to act like they were in charge and that the person they were talking to was not their equal.

Jeeeeeesus. What goddamn rock do these people live under? I’m younger than Handler and Chastain and I know who the fuck Farrakhan is and the vile shit he said over and over and over again. He’s a straight up anti-Semite who also loves Scientology (???) and damn near endorsed Trump in 2016 (!!!!).

It’s all good, doc. We need someone to give us the facts, good or bad. So many of us are familiar with being on a job, trying to accomplish things while also trying to placate an incompetent asshole boss who only cares about himself.

I know her brother Wayne. We worked together at Jazz Fest every year for like, seven years. Nicest guy. Very proud of his sister. 

If I were a multi-millionaire, I would simply quietly enjoy my millions!

So, totally off-topic from Barf Bag, but I just learned the other day that Chubby Checker took his name from Fats Domino.
Fats :: Chubby
Domino :: Checker!

 Now is a great time to check on your stash of emergency supplies. Do you have enough food and toilet paper to ride out the next spike, if there is one?

She’s serving the interests of Christian nationalists. They want to kill public education and replace it with private Christian schools that a free to discriminate based on sexuality and race. (The movement to build several Christian academies were a reaction to desegregation; meant to create white enclaves. See…

They exist to protect the company, not the employee. 

Seriously, does anything good or productive ever come from an incident being reported to HR?

But I think that’s the point of how stupid our lack of a national response is. We’re seeing places open up to insane degrees. No longer requiring masks and distancing, even.

I feel like a real Polyanna that that didn’t initially occur to me, but now I can’t unhear it.  You’re 100% right.

You know who has hands? The Devil. And he uses them to hold things.

They lost me completely when they hired that fundamentalist apologist Ross Douthat. Thomas Friedman was bad enough.

Fuck guys, my dog is dying. A week ago he seemed like a healthy 10yo dog, then he had a seizure, wouldn’t eat his food and today we learned he’s got some kind of cancer and we’re talking palliative care and maybe just weeks to live.

Shelter Cat Update!

Here’s a photo of Darwin winning at Life to help counteract the darkness of the last weeks:

I forgot about Hands Across America! I never thought of that as a protest, but I guess it was. I wrote earlier that my first protest was in 1991, but now I realize it was HAA. My main memory is of doing it across my college campus, it was a big production. As we all stood there quietly, hand in hand, I heard someone…

1968 Dem convention in Chicago. I was very young and had to be home by 9pm, but you better believe we were downtown every single day by 10am. And again, at the trial of the Chicago 7, although not as often since we had to cut school to go down there.  The police were given free rein by old Mayor Daley to shoot to…

She saved her venom for people she thought she could intimidate, as bullies have done forever. She picked out people who are “vulnerable”and traditionally not afforded respect-POC, trans, fat, gay-and disrespected them in the most obvious ways possible.