While I am staunchly against the death penalty, I will be tickled to watch pro-lifers who support it go through their mental gymnastics in this instance.

So . . . what’s the over/under for likelihood of Actual Angry Black Guy vs. White Guy Trying to Avoid Exam?

I was thinking, “Maybe someone who can’t remember violent altercations shouldn’t be in public office,” and then I realized we’re talking about Louisiana, where this is one of the less fucked-up things that could be wrong with a politician.

The tenets of Catholicism are incompatible with human rights and dignity.

That is absolutely not an accusation of rape, Lux never calls it such, and to say otherwise is misleading at best, a shitty lie at worst.

Given what I’ve seen from the previews, maybe actors of color were simply smart enough to stay the fuck away from what looks like a CGI trainwreck..

Oh, but you don’t need to let it end on that kind of depressing note.

Are you kidding? It’s a Waffle House.

I hope the last thought that went through her head was, “This wouldn’t be happening if I wasn’t a stupid piece of shit.”

Yeah, if the money were, say, directed towrds some sort of diversity training or forcibly reinvested into STEM programs at the school, I could get behind it.

I am genuinely undecided as to whether it’s more evil for Hasselbeck to continue to misinform America via F&F, or to devote herself full-time to creating children who think and act like her.

Oh god, when I had a student whose first name was “Anil,” I was so freaked out over screwing it up on the first day of class I was practically hyperventilating.

I fucking love John Hurt. His voice is so beautiful that the dumbest, weirdest stuff can come out of his mouth (or his chest, really) and I’m still enraptured.

I think it’s important to remember that putting on a performance of Rent in this setting means that you have teenagers playing heroin addicts who have acquired HIV/AIDS by sharing needles.

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.”