So let me get this straight: depicting Trump as Caesar is terrible and unfathomable, but giving Alex Jones a platform on a major media outlet is totally ok.

...wait ‘til you get to the part where one of the families had to produce the death certificate. Oh, and the crazy lady that kept calling the dad of one of the kids, telling him that he was an actor, and that he would die for lying to the American people...

In related news, someone at Sandy Hook Promise Foundation thought it would be a good idea to have Megyn Kelly host their gala.

man oh man, but that kid was cute...

I used to live in Chinatown and there was a butcher shop there that would put out, at the end of the day, huge Rubbermaid bins full of pork scraps, ie fat and less nameable bits, and let the desperately poor take what they wanted. You could always tell when they’d set the bins out by the smell: blood and a uniquely…

Tangent: through all of this chaos is anyone else, like, getting it pretty bad for Emmanuel Macron? I am married but if I were having a bachelorette party I wouldn’t want my strippers to be cops or whatever. I’d want sexy world leader strippers. Sexy Macron impersonator, sexy obama impersonator, sexy Trudeau…

I bet I know whose bright idea this was.

I’d cut off my hand and high five yours with it if we could get us some Bloomberg.

Bowling alleys, too. You haven’t been able to smoke in a bowling alley here in twenty years, but they all still smell like stale cigarettes, spilled beer, nacho cheese, and lane oil.

it’s long been my understanding that anyone travelling back in time from the 21st century would be overwhelmed by the smells, and anyone making the journey in the opposite direction would be overwhelmed by the sounds.

Nothing like getting an infection from an ice skating fall. At least they had leeches and amputation to take care of the gangrene.

Absolut Ass is their least popular vodka!

Yep. I like reminding people that pretty much every piece of Victorian literature that we romanticize is about the lives of the rich, and basically that everyone else would have had lives that were vastly worse than today.

The series this article apparently belongs to conjures up one image:

“It girl?” In that top?

Well, I suppose the president is a professional entertainer with dementia, so maybe this is just a 30 year cycle. But if we were going to revive 80s trends, I would have picked well-paying jobs for young people and content on MTV that’s worth watching.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?!!!???

“the position that most American women take on abortion — that it should be completely illegal, or legal but with significant restrictions.”

I really want a job as an influencer. I recommend fruit flavored seltzer water, mixed breed dogs, never wearing shoes with Velcro, and Fun Dip Lik-a-Stix. Does anyone feel influenced? Give me a dollar.

We weren’t allowed to play hip hop or rap music at my (rural, tiny) school dances, then my senior year the dress code was “black at white” and they were only going to play swing music (which 17 year olds TOTALLY LOVE).