“But as a New Yorker I am very interested in wasting government resources for personal reasons....apparently.”

Nothing makes you more likable than acting like being from New York makes you unimpressed with everything .

“Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, a villainous Wall Street muppet from a 1980s Jim Henson film” — Thank you for the most perfect description of this, this human?

Nuance is terrifying, isn’t it? It requires people to allow for complexity and contradiction and not being able to trot out easy answers.

I hate that site. They’re the ones who spread the rumor that Prince died of AIDS. Lowest fucking scumfuckers on earth, making their click bait money by making up shit about people they don’t know anything about.

I had to scan the comments to make sure someone else didn’t post something about Bobby Brown becoming Cedric the Entertainer before I posted it myself. Because, how can you not see that!

Well put. I was trying to find a respectful way of making this point that didn’t sound like I was snarking on the value of her life.

Unless Mueller gets him good, I really think he might get away with it. The never-ending deluge of scandal seems to help him, because there’s so much shit being revealed constantly that I really think it’s a wash with most people because they just can’t keep up. He got elected being this nuts, he might continue to…

When I first saw that picture I thought “man, Cedric the Entertainer has fallen on some hard times.” I legit thought that picture of Bobby Brown was Cedric the Entertainer. So much so I kept looking for Cedric’s name in the story. Now I’m kind of sad he isn’t. Can we write him in?

Any mention of TV One is a good time to inform the General Public that Unsung is the best documentary series on television by a country mile, and that everyone should watch every episode.

I’m so tired of Javanka deploying anonymous sources to try to make it look like they’re some moderating force. They are complicit with this President and they’re doing nothing to stop him.

Sued by DOJ for refusing to rent to black people, ultimately settling the case (despite “never settling”), then sued and settles again for failing to live up to original settlement.

But, that’s boring.

Adopted dad? I think he was her biological father?

Loyalty to someone doesn’t say much about the person whom they’re loyal to, but more about the person who is loyal to them. People are loyal to people who don’t deserve it all the fucking time for all different reasons. A fuck ton of money that you stand to inherit can inspire some loyalty.

The link in that quote does a pretty good job of addressing that point. Essentially, it says Yes, put an asterisk there, but go ahead and read it and enjoy it, too. When a person’s darker tendencies slip into their work in understated ways, it’s a good thing to be aware of that, lest you absorb little bits of those…

If anyone wants to read a really interesting article on Dahl and some of his “unpleasantness” (ahem), I found this article last year! http://thisrecording.com/today/2011/6/1/in-which-we-consider-the-macabre-unpleasantness-of-roald-dah.html

Charlie’s dad is in the book.

I saw a movie called “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” starring a black guy once.