Grassley looks more and more like a Grant Wood painting every year.

It really does depend on the restaurant and style of food, though. Some places, particularly “country”, “German” (usually Midwestern code for Amish,) or family-style places often have really good roast chicken. And a lot of the little local Italian places have really good chicken braises. Several of the Southern…

With everything else going on, I’ve been wondering when dancers would start to speak up.

For $3700 if the coffee only manages to be fine, that damned thing had better walk to my bed, gently shake me awake and eat me.

The turkey doesn’t seem so weird. Doesn’t WS still sell Williebird turkeys around the holidays? I wouldn’t expect them to be in store, but I can see how someone might ask because why the fuck not/you never know if you don’t.

I sell insurance. White, black, Asian, Latin@ the thing I hear most when we bring up life insurance for kids is “why would they/I/we need that?” And for your ignorant ass co-worker, the family we have here who DOES have life insurance on all their kids? They’re a black family with three kids of their own and eight…

*snort* We already are even if she doesn’t realize it. She says “it was meant to be ironic and funny and extreme.” You know who else uses that as an out, chick? Trolls. And trolls are by and large just bullies with keyboard anonymity.

That’s got to be because it’s nearly Christmas and the fact that several channels run 24hr marathons of Elf, A Christmas Story, Scrooged and It’s A Wonderful Life every year really makes some of us just want to blow shit up.

Unfortunately, that is the typical reply/response.

Hold the local school administration accountable, as well. “No tolerance” bullying policies tend to disproportionately punish the abused rather than the abusers because the kid getting bullied is often seen as the problem, not the kid or kids doing the bullying.

I don’t know about that. It seems to me with West it’s more along the lines of “Talented Tenth”ism taken to the extreme. He’s the Talented. He’s got the education that makes him superior. He has to save all the rest of us. Those other (possibly) Talented aren’t doing enough because they’re not doing what he (the top…

Hm. I didn’t take the last two paragraphs that way, but I commonly get called a humorless bitch.

Girl, I don’t even know. EVERY TIME I ask for help, whatever hamster it is answering my email asks the same damned things, even when I’ve already answered them in the freaking email I’ve sent asking for help! So this time, I put in ALL CAPS, SINCE APPARENTLY I HAVE TO YELL what I’ve already done, what I’ve already…

Apparently she’s had it, and quit bothering to when she got diagnosed with MS. I have a neighbor and a few clients with MS and am pretty sure they’ve all got better things to do than bitterbitch about their successful siblings. But, you know, maybe Markle’s half sister is special or something, fuck if I know.

But who’s laughing? This is a public safety issue, and people with disabilities need to be informed just as much as people without them.

Why on earth would acknowledging it be the racist thing? I don’t understand people.

I wanted to take piano, and we actually had my great-grandmother’s old upright, but for some reason, my mother insisted on violin instead. I fucking HATED playing that thing. I never got anywhere, because the only part of practice I liked was getting up a good groove in the rosin with my bow. So, over rosined and…

I can still access them, but I can’t reply to anything, or star anything, or even read the comments, usually. And I don’t think a new account is going to do jack. It’s so weird and random that I’m pretty sure it’s kinja not getting along with whatever the hell it is that’s running here at work. (Also, I tried, and the…

Before I forget, to you and pretty much everyone, I am entirely unable to post on TSB and O-Deck anymore. I can only randomly post on the “main” sites. And Kinja Help isn’t responding to my requests for help like, at all. I haven’t been ignoring you (or Martha or Roo!) I just can’t reply/respond. (And yes, it is just…

How does this keep happening? Aren’t ASL interpreters supposed to be certified? Is there something wrong with the certification system, or is it that there’s something wrong with whoever is just letting these people into the press conferences?