I thought your mistake was delightfully meta, since it wasn’t that long ago that Perry suggested getting rid of the department he couldn’t remember the name of, which he is now nominated to lead. I mean, if I read this novel I’d have thrown it against the wall for its silly hamfistedness.

Please post more about your initiative when you are ready. I live near Cleveland, a city with a lead poisoning rate as bad as Flint’s due to soil contamination.

Your lettering is great. I am envious.

“So I guess the draft is not far away. Gonna need some low income patriots to go over there and liberate that oil...”

Alcohol poisoning is a terrible way to die tho.

Actually it might be very applicable at State, which is basically herding cats. But Perry’s up for Secretary of Energy, which is herding atoms. Tougher stretch.

Picking apart someone for not wearing a flag pin is cheap jingoistic nonsense.

I think it is fair to point out that Trump’s base lives much further from D.C. than Obama’s, who could pull in a full mall from people hopping on the train in that morning, and a smaller crowd would be expected as a result. However, it doesn’t look like he has even half the crowd.

And the Trumpistas will continue to call him the “No BS” president while he lies to their faces.

I have read way too much vampire lit. So, one clever solution is that any article of faith wielded by the faithful is a deterrent: cross for Christians, Star of David for Jews, a plate of spaghetti for the pastafarians. That can then be cross matched with the faith of the vampire, so a vamp who was a devout Christian…

Oh man. Internet cookies and cream is on its way. I plan to stream Parks and Rec and play video games.

I don’t pirate. If I don’t have legal and easy access to something (which means Netflix, Amazon Prime or rarely Apple TV) then I don’t watch it. I have two priorities: not getting sued, and ease of access. I’m not going to maintain a dozen different streaming services, and paying for addons, even discounted through…

Fair point, but I’d rather see a penalty box for pervs; the burden and shame needs to rest with them, not with their victims.

It will turn into “Any woman not sitting in the female-only section is fair game” though, because that’s how this pathology works. It wasn’t that long ago (just 100 years or so) that women walking alone were assumed to be prostitutes and, therefore, fair game.

Thank you! Your work makes email bearable. I’m sorry that spammers get tilted at you; they are ridiculous.

If little girls are looking up to the spouse of the president as their ultimate role model then we are teaching them wrong. Let’s find them some role models whose status doesn’t depend on their marital status.

Cheat, and blame her. Obvs.

*sob* I miss that show.

“Now politicians and advocates can just make up their own intelligence and ignore the consensus of experts. I’m scared.”

It is standard procedure for the outgoing administration to request the resignation of each of its politically appointed ambassadors, which the Obama administration did back in November. It is also traditional for the incoming administration to grant extensions to ambassadors who request it, since it is unlikely that…