He was young enough to feel invincible and had the opportunity to look a bogeyman in the eye. According to his dad he’d been a kid with pretty sound judgement, so the fam said OK, though it’s not the vacay they’d take, themselves. I understand the kid’s impulse though I don’t share it — escaping genocidal madmen is a…

“Borderline” by Mishell Baker. It has urban fantasy elements, but give it a try even if fantasy isn’t your thing. The writing is quite good.

Would dadaji consider adopting? All my grandparents are long dead so I’m a genuine grand-orphan!

I have a coworker with a younger sister who is about 18 and living in the Deep South. Where she comes from girls are engaged by 18 and married by 20, or they are ostracized. She is so convinced that without a man and a marriage she is nothing that she lets her boyfriends beat her and take over her social media…

I read a novel recently where the protagonist is a young woman with borderline personality disorder who recognizes it, is in therapy and medicated and trying not to be a shitheel to everyone around her. I realized that I’d never seen a narrative of someone with BPD or narcissistic personality disorder where they were…

Ah, he’s an anchor baby, then.

Stop doing that. You’ve already infused the air with excrescent piscine foulness; cleaning the microwave after is just covering up the scene of the crime.

When I was younger I was not permission to take vacation time for over a year because there was nobody to cover my absence. The fuckery we put up with when we’re young!

Eyebrows. It’s the eyebrows.

Doctors have plenty to worry about - radiologists, oncologists, and surgeons, to start. Fortunately for them the AMA is the most powerful labor union in the country.

But they did it by sucking up to the tech bros, so...out with the old, I guess. (Ryancare will probably decrease premiums for young, healthy, relatively affluent men; IMO this kabuki theater of a vote is just a recruitment tool for the next generation of Republican voters and their ride along Stepford wives).

Corporations are people too!

And you get a halo upon graduation.

That’s a lot of homoeroticism. A whole lot. I won’t read ahead but I am guessing the next panels are a threesome with Chaffets.

As a Jarmusch it took quite a pummeling. I guess it was too middlebrow or something. Whatever, I love it. I love the sound of it, especially. Must rewatch DVD soon.

I don’t remember seeing it much in the discount stores till the late 90s. In the 80s it was expensive fabulous-preppy. I don’t think it was Saks level spendy but certainly Neiman-Marcus.

Before or after midnight?

I have been there. Get what you need at IKEA, but also consider secondhand stores. I’m getting rid of all my stuff right now, involuntarily, and it is a consolation to think that some of it will end up making someone a little happy.

One problem within the Democratic Party is that it took in the Rockefeller Republicans who lost their home in the GOP when it went fucknuts. These voters are conservative on economic issues, so democrats have a hard time unifying on economic policy.

It isn’t quite so nefarious; the disabled market is small. In order for the product to be saleable at a price people are willing to pay, they need more people to buy the product. In many cases a product would either not be made, or be so expensive that most disabled people couldn’t afford it. For example, there is a…