Crtl+S (or command+S on a Mac) is also a god-send — makes it easy to save whatever you’re working on so that you don’t end up with something freezing/crashing and losing what you were working on

I managed to do the reverse (grew up in ass-sweat PHX and went to college at UCLA, now live in the Bay Area) and I’m never going back to that boring ass wasteland.

I think he’s Kaiser Wilhelm III. It’s a deep cut, but he’s a spoiled, impulsive moron with entirely too much power that he didn’t earn and doesn’t have any respect for the responsibility power entails.

Lying about his assets to suit his purposes seems par for the course too

If anything, receiving an abortion when you want one after an assault is empowering, not traumatizing. Because you are re-asserting your control over your own body and not essentially being re-assaulted by some crusty old men in a statehouse somewhere that claim they have more control over your body than you do.…

“The unborn” are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don’t resent your condescension or complain that you are not politically correct; unlike widows, they don’t ask you to question…

Sunnyside looks promising! I love the Michael Schur shows (Parks & Rec, Brooklyn 99, the Good Place) and it’s nice to see Kal Penn in something again. Plus Bill Nye is in the trailer! Cautiously optimistic, but still optimistic

Damn straight

Their support of Roy Moore might not have been 100% about whiteness, but they wouldn’t have supported a person of color with the same allegations (or even at all). Their form of religious extremism has white supremacy baked right into it, it’s a combo of White + Evangelical 

They’ll take them somewhere it’s legal before going the back alley route, assuming they could afford it (and chances are these GOP lawmakers could). Everyone else is fucked, but they don’t care much about anyone outside their immediate family/social circle

I’d guess the fact that the officer involved wasn’t white had something to do with it too

It looks like he’s going for a Fat Wolverine look with that beard

Also, my tiny, shitty off-campus studio in Westwood cost $895 a month nearly 10 years ago... which works out to $10,740 per calendar year or $8,055 per school year. There’s zero chance the cost of housing in one of the more expensive areas of LA has gotten less expensive since then.

“1868: The Organic Act creates the University of California as a “complete university,” merging the then-private College of California in Oakland and a new state land-grant institution. Section 14 of the Act read: “as soon as the income of the University shall permit, admission and tuition shall be free to all…

Yeah, the people bitching about “paying off student loans with other people’s money” were fine with it when those “other people” just straight up paid for their shit in the first place

I started college at a public state university (UCLA) in 2008, and in-state tuition had doubled by the time I graduated in 2012. Granted, state budget cuts to universities during the Recession were certainly a factor, but it’s not like it’s gone back down since the economy and their state funding has recovered. It’s…

College student homelessness has been a growing problem in California, though likely elsewhere too (just don’t have the data on that). In 2016, 5% of UC students were homeless and 40% were characterized as having “low” or “very low” food security. 11% of CSU students are homeless.

I can’t even count how many of these “Woe is me, I’m the real victim here!” stories about Aunt Becky and her daughters I’ve seen, but I have yet to see any of them express regret or even pretend to care about the kids who lost out on those spots because they cheated. Fuck that and, honestly, fuck them—it’s exactly that…

Agreed. It’s also good for us to ask all of these questions now, 18 months before the election and almost a year before the primaries even start. We need to make sure we vet our candidates now so there aren’t any surprises once they get the nomination—imagine if the John Edwards got the nomination and then the mistress…

Don’t forget the billions of gallons of toxic coal sludge!