...did she explain why? I mean, I don’t expect it to make any sense, but did she even give a reason?

I’m not at all surprised--it’s blatantly obvious that Trump’s demonization of immigrants is intended to keep the population of undocumented workers too frightened to organize for better wages and treatment--but I’m very saddened at all of the people who are forced by circumstances to work for a man who so openly…

I know that at least one variant on this recipe involves chopping up beef jerky into fine shreds, so yes.

Absolutely. How anyone can function with a lack of awareness this total is beyond me. Or, for that matter, how an editor could sign off on, “Well, we’re absolutely not white supremacists, BUT...”

I can’t tell you how fucking surreal it is having a surname this uncommon and seeing it pop up in the news every once in a while in connection with an Alaskan sled dog racing dynasty.

It’s not even “support for the state of Israel”. It’s “unconditional support for all actions taken by the state of Israel”. Like, I support Israel’s right to exist, and I feel very strongly that acts of violence against Israel and its people are unconscionable, but... they took a whole bunch of territory in a war and…

If you can’t drink without harassing a woman at a party, you shouldn’t drink. If the woman feels like she’s being harassed, she’s being harassed. If everyone held people to these standards instead of trying to excuse them with, “Whoa, hey, everybody does it, where would we be if we didn’t let guys act creepy and…

The thing is, though, the “context” of the time was both that a woman couldn’t give open, explicit consent to sexual activity and thus had to couch her interest in playful denials and that a woman offering genuine, unironic refusals to have sex could have those refusals ignored by a man who chose to pretend that they…

The tell-all book about this business and its total collapse is going to be fucking phenomenal.

Words do have meanings, but those meanings change over time as they take on new connotations and drop old ones. Do you also scream at people who wish you a “Merry Christmas” that you’d rather have a long one? Because “merry”, originally, meant “brief”.

“Lots of people have done this behavior” =/= “This behavior can’t be sexual harassment.”

They wouldn’t be able to pay it. Damn freeloaders don’t have jobs.

It’s easy to say that when we don’t know what he’s finding out any more than Trump does. I think people are going to be genuinely fucking astonished at how crooked Trump is, even by the low standards we’ve previously established for him. Again, it’s worth remembering that Trump didn’t do any of this to win an election…

His ghost will haunt the Bush family, insisting that he has photos and that it was very crowded.

I wouldn’t say FOSTA/SESTA was poorly thought out, I’d say it did exactly what it was intended to do--drove sex workers underground and prevented them from using the Internet to organize collectively as a political movement, all with the fig leaf of “protecting them” to give it plausible deniability. Politicians don’t…

No. We have decided that meanings change over time. Or do you still use the word “bird” to refer to the infant stage of a fowl?

I presume you use “sinister” to describe the left-hand side of things, call all domesticated canines “hounds” and reserve “dog” to refer to particularly large and savage hounds, and describe any short event as “merry”, then?

My wife had pictures of our cat’s toes flagged, so... yeah, pretty much.

They gave him a pass, sure, but they didn’t give him enough of a pass. Anything less than sycophantic boot-licking is unjustified hostility to Trump.

I think the problem is that the Republican Party has gotten so bad that it’s simply impossible for most people to accept. Like, if I were to say to you, “Oh, yes, we have two political parties in America. One stands for clean water, clean air, a living wage, the right of every American citizen to vote, a working…