Please remember that atheists and agnostics are not welcomed by the BSA. If your child is not willing to take an oath swearing to respect a god, the organization’s stance is that they are unable to be “morally straight.” Please stop giving money and support to such a religiously bigoted organization, and instead…

Absolutely no warning or context, my father says across the dinner table to thirteen-year-old me: “You know, we could probably afford a nose job, if you want one.”

My sis-in-law - my brother’s wife - bought a second-hand wedding dress for under a hundred bucks off the internets, because the original wedding had fallen through. She had to pay for refittings, but she looked goddamned gorgeous. Fifteen years and four kids later, he still gives her a rose every week.

As an instructor at a Big Ten, I had at least one football scholarship student end up in the ICU because his mother had just failed at committing suicide and he’d lost his shit in response, getting piss-drunk and running head-first into walls for a while. (I gave him an incomplete and had him finish the course two…

“I just want to say something.
You know, for every dollar a man makes
a woman makes 63 cents.
Now, fifty years ago that was 62 cents.
So, with that kind of luck, it’ll be the year 3,888
before we make a buck.”

That is some grade-A bullshit coming out of Chelsea Manning’s mouth. You can’t really be a woman if you have short hair? Go fuck yourself.

. . . I actually know this.

Eh, theater is a place where people routinely try weird shit. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t. Like, I was at first disappointed when I learned that Patrick Stewart played Othello in the 1990s . . . but the director had cast the entire rest of the play as black, and it got some really good reviews. Hell,…

Hey, man, not just amateur groups. I fucking love Jonathan Pryce as an actor, but I am eternally uneasy about the fact that super-white and Welsh him originated the role the French/Vietnamese “Engineer” in Miss Saigon.

This seems like totally over-the-top outrage. The guy is pretty clearly serving up a parody of pickup/bro culture, not trying to victimize women. Seriously, “Don’t tip your waiter or waitress because girls like money?” Sure., maybe it’s not that funny, but it’s not that much worse than very bad SNL skits.

So you’ve been okay with how much the LDS church hates and abuses homosexuals and women right up until this moment?

My brother gave me my first sex talk. I’d guess I was about seven and he was about twelve.

(the two had apparently continued the fight in the parking lot)

I am not a Hillary fan, but I’ll be damned if that picture isn’t amazing and hilarious.

Something like 90% of stuff Rousey says leads me to the conclusion that she’s an asshole.

HW Bush, 1987:

I had a stint teaching people in a nursing program. Very intro-level stuff. I had, and have since, taught the same course to non-nursing students. I literally won an award for teaching the course the year before my time teaching nursing students.

I got a double BA that included philosophy. Which I genuinely have no regrets about, it’s a very useful field for the curious and adventurous, and I think it served me well.

Screw you, give me my plain and simple tailor Garak any day.