But.....it’s a gross, bad, stupid joke.  Sometimes you can tell a lot about someone based on what they think is funny.

With all due respect, you listed this woman’s pedigree as evidence that she’s of sound mind...isn’t that a bit like comparing her to an animal/dog/robot? As if she could be pre-programmed to be smart and independent just by virtue of the people that came before her. People from good families can still fall for cults…

Or, on the other hand, why not let a good thing be a good thing?

Oh, that wasn’t the gist of the post? Could have fooled me.

Oklahoma having that as the most searched term proves your point. 

How did Idaho not pick a potato dish?  Do they count it as a main? 

Yeah, it’s a silly argument. People making it are usually disguising “I don’t want to watch this” in a performative way.

I’ve never understood that argument. Are fictional movies featuring a war off limits whenever a real war is happening (which is all the time somewhere)? Anyway, the book (which is good) isn’t really about a pandemic -- that’s just the backstory for the reason why civilization has collapsed in the present of the story.

I mean, there’s a reason Contagion was a number-one rental in the early stages of the pandemic; just as some people prefer their media to pivot away from reality, and others prefer running full-tilt towards it.

I highly recommend listening to the You’re Wrong About series on her book, it unexpectedly sucked me in. It’s a great snapshot of the late 90's early 00's. Also the Justin Timberlake stuff is just so gross, I never realized what a true terror he’s always been.

But the purpose of youth sports isn’t “display of skill.”

RDJ: “Wait... I get to play a guy who dove into his vices so hard that when reality came knocking, he chose to become a Superhero rather than confronting his actual problems?”

4 ex-wives? At a certain point, there’s something to be said for quitting things you’re not good at

Be careful of judging what you don’t know. Without delving deeply into the family dynamic we have, suffice to say that my sister is cut from a radically different cloth. She is not excluded because we don’t love her and don’t want her to be a part. We have always welcomed her with open arms, and tried. Oh we’ve tried. …

Twist: What if that woman was horribly abusive and would punish the kids by locking them in the crawl space, and super messed up shit happened down there, which is why they wanted to put her in a home and she was all salty about it?

I mean, close enough...

dude they have to be real stories

Dude, that was Chuck Cunningham! He famously went upstairs in season two of Happy Days... and never came back down.

When I was 12, I briefly hung out with a group of girls who were more “mature” than I was—which is to say, they liked boys and makeup, and I was more of a play-with-my-American-Girl-dolls type of tween. One summer day we decided to dress up and walk around our town, which was basically an attention-getting exercise.…

The ones that stuck with me through the years were actually ghostie ones!