You know, if he’d given a sincere apology and made any attempt to demonstrate that he’d learned something, maybe we could come back to him.

A big part of it is also the cultural hate for mothers - if your kid isn’t perfect, you clearly fucked up and did the Wrong Thing, and by the way the science of what the Right Thing is, is constantly changing, so moms are always wrong!  Particularly since there are consultants on everything from “attachment parenting”…

I wondered if anybody was going to get that.  You just never know with this crowd.

My toaster just wants to “burn the fucking world”. His words, not mine.

Shit. You can all pay me to talk with you. I have a PhD in Child development and 25 years experience working with young children including infants ( my actual specialty).

“did Trump change anyone’s life in a meaningful way”

I think the kids locked in cages and the people who lost family to Covid found it pretty fucking meaningful. He also undermined our elections and attempted to overthrow the government, which to quote Joe Biden is “A Big Fucking Deal”. I could go on but I’m sick of the fucker. Do not minimize the fucker, shit was not…

I give it a year before the right tries to either rehabilitate him or they try to spin it that Trump was the “Bad GOP” and that they’re the “Good GOP”. The only difference between the two is that the former says the quiet parts loud. 

I feel like this is like closing the barn doors after all the animals got loose. I personally would like to hear the news when Trump gets arrested.

It’s a lie of omission, Thomas Aquinas.

Dear Joe,

Im loyal to Aunt Polly and nothing else!

Cull.

I’m so grateful you are unsure. Speaks well of you.

joni mitchell likes them. and joni mitchell doesn’t like anyone.

I am annoyed that sometimes “Maria” in the UK is pronounced like “Mariah”, but sometimes not.

Yeah, A Christmas Gift to You from Phil Spector is probably always going to be my favorite Christmas album (though Darlene Love & The Ronettes can take a lot of the credit for that too), but also fuck Phil Spector with eternal flaming hot pokers.

Which brings up a good point: I don’t think enough attention gets paid to how people who worked with Spector and suffered his abuse get sort of double-victimized by his disgrace.

More like “Aun” vs Ayenn

I feel like I’ve seen interviews with other people talking about her, and they always refer to her as Annie in those interviews. So basically the evidence was always there, directly in front of us... and we just ignored it. I think we should all have a nice long think about how we can atone for this, folks.