I used to lurk on an etiquette website, E-hell.

i’ve read two or three of these and you’re so right! an excellent collection of superb writing. Faith, friendship and tragedy was such a gut punch and now i’m reading it again. its just really good writing. i’m also a fan of Skip Hollingsworth, he’s like the writing equivalent of dateline

Right to Bear Anise

Is it wrong of me to hope he dies, or at least ends up on a ventilator? With the exception of Herman Cain, all these Trump admin people get it, and seem to fine, include Trump himself. It’s not fair.

“like holy fuck can people not be interesting anymore”

When you’re reading these scripts, are you thinking about the message you would be putting into the world as far as how women are portrayed onscreen?

After the OnlyFans debacle I can’t believe anyone at Jez, the “supposedly feminist website” would have anything to do with her. She knows exactly what she did, and the fact that she won’t talk about it is all the proof I’ll ever need of that. She has ruined lives.

The media will stop giving them a platform when we have a functional FCC again.

And Trump proudly retweeted a Washington Times article about this guy recanting his claim. Apparently our POTUS doesn’t know what “recant” means...

It’s because they believe Trump will now be the face of the Republican Party when he’s out of office. Any future presidential candidate will need his support and approval since his insane support base will do anything he says.If they speak out against Trump, he won’t support them and they won’t get the votes they need.

Thanks, these are worrying times. Have been for a good 5 years now.

I’ve been eating this comment all evening, but decided to post it, cause hey, so what if I look like a fool? So, so happy to be wrong here and called out later for overreacting.

He shouldn’t have won the 2016 election.

From here. BIG move towards Republicans in the Rio Grande Valley.

How close were these senatorial elections? Like, say the Republican senator in Arizona only won by a hundred or so votes, is there an outside chance Trump’s campaign to have ballots thrown out could result in Biden still winning the state but a Republican senator getting unseated?

Now this would be funny!

I think we've found the 2020 poet laureate. Bravo!

I also wonder if the high profile coverage of stranger abduction normalizes it for pedophiles, giving them the idea of actually trying an abduction, in a similar way that coverage of mass shootings may tend to enable other shooters to take that step.

I guess I’m an elder millennial (born in ‘84) and grew up in a small city (<100,000), but I def had a very similar childhood as yours. We would bike all over the city or take public transit and my parents would have no idea where we were. Every once and a while we’d have to use a pay phone or find a friend’s house to…

Also, how many of these missing kids, were white? That makes a difference. I recall while living in central Florida, some pretty white girl went missing, and it was all the news could talk about for weeks. I’m certain multiple minority children who had gone missing, never got that sort of media attention.