People, can we please shut down the idea that this diagnosis is a hoax? Trump is not Machiavelli - he’s a schoolyard bully, and the thing bullies fear above all else is showing any sort of weakness. At every turn, even before he was elected, Trump has lied, deflected and projected to avoid admitting to the slightest…

I’m sorry that happened. My sister got pulled over twice in the same week by the same cop when we were on the way to work. The second time, he seemed a little more flirty about it. There was no reason to pull her over, other than he saw two women in a car, and thought the driver might be to his liking. After the…

Ewww.

I like to acknowledge all the people hovering over their keyboards who have typed, yet discarded stories too painful to appear online. You are not alone.

I’d very much include 2014 in that, because if people hadn’t sat on their butts and stayed home, we might have had a democratic Senate, and thus Merrick Garland confirmed. It still galls me to this day that there were people dismissive of the warnings, in states like Colorado, that the Republican candidate for Senate…

A big old fuck you to all the assholes who didn’t vote in 2016 because “both parties are the same”.

Pittsburgh has a program, Resolve Crisis Helpline. It’s somewhere between suicide hotline and place to call when you see someone who seems to need immediate mental health assistance.

To slightly misquote John Waters, we need to educate the children; otherwise, they’ll grow up and kill me!

Irish. I so appreciate your tension!

I guess you came you from Catholics who realized dismissing the question is probably a more sensible response than a batshit crazy answer. But I was a Ukrainian Catholic, so what can you do?

I’m not cheerleading for Pelosi here, but your big bright idea is to let prominent women in the Democratic party be “punching bags” for misogynists to attract their votes? Um no thank you.

You must not know any tankies, and for that you should count yourself lucky.

The right does feel other ideas will overly influence the masses (because their ideas are crap and the minute someone gets a hold of a different idea they run with it), so they use fear in shrill tones to try and distract their followers and children. Almost any conservative site will have hand-wringing over the…

The GOP role model, everyone:

Lol, they sure are.

We did a bit of Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir as well. You read lots of French stuff if you’re doing anything from about Neo-Classicism through German Expressionism. Film’s pretty wide-ranging, but you get a lot more modern philosophy and criticism for that. Mulvey, Lacan, Bazin, Susan Sontag, etc.

I am often stunned (ok not really stunned per say) at how little conservatives seem to understand at how academic fields actually work. Like if we knock down a statue commemorating something, we are erasing history. That’s not how anyone learns history. If we read a book for class, we will automatically be…

Foucault is widely applicable. I read a lot more Baudelaire and Zola than I thought I would, and you can pry my Griselda Pollock and Edward Said from my cold, dead, no-longer-able-to-type-citations hands, which will still be applying their writing to non-art history disciplines.

I had to read the bible in high school and it did not make me suddenly religious. It takes more than just reading words to believe in something. Or at least it does for me.

These people support the candidates that run, not against other candidates, but against the idea that college-educated intellectualism does not represent the American people and that no one should think anything beyond “‘MERICUH! GUNZ! JEEZUS!”