We had sewage backing up into our basement three months after buying the house. When I called a guy to check it out, he walked into Mymensingh basement and said “Oh yeah, you have roots in the line that goes to the sewer.” I asked him how he knew. He told me he had been here a year earlier for the same problem, but…

Ok, that is also a good plan.

So were Ted Cruz and John McCain. That’s not what “natural born” citizenship is. Tammy was a US citizen at birth because her father was a citizen. The idea that you have to be born in the US to be President is a straight lie made up by birthers. This was discussed ad nauseam with Obama.

Tammy Duckworth. Why she’s not at the top of everyone’s list baffles me.

Can you imagine being that young and interning in the White House? And then meeting the president? And he wants to have a relationship with you? You have a dream job and you are meeting important people, and then the one person you tell about the President pulls this shit. It must have felt awful. I do wonder how she…

I’m kind of loving the comeback of chunky platform shoes, though. Mostly because now I have a job and I can buy whatever platform shoes I want this time around and you can’t stop me, mom! I’m 33 and all of my sandals this year are platform wedges. I wear them with mini skirts. I look cute.

I usually don’t complain about typos but these were distracting in quantity and level of obscuring real meaning.

Which seems likely in this case given that there is no circuit split and the matter is pending in an appeals court in Hawaii.

Wow she sounds like a monster.

They are taking down the earlier seasons, which weirdly fills me with anxiety.

Besides the whole “Branagh is not Poirot” debacle that is unfolding before our eyes, what is up with people’s obsession with this book? I love Poirot, and I love Agatha Christie, but Murder on the Orient Express makes no damn sense. I won’t spoil the ending but it is the least plausible, most ridiculous end to a…

Mirror, Father, Mirror

Bad dye jobs are always in style.

The international handshake oneupmanship is really the funniest thing about this presidency. 

And he has horrific posture. As a lifelong sloucher seeing photos of him makes me wish I had listened to my mama when she told me to sit up straight as a child.

I don’t know the history for this family, but so often there are 911 calls, attempts at getting protection orders, or reports to the state’s child welfare department in the past for families where abuse is this intense. There are often times when law enforcement could have stepped in but didn’t.

You could see him getting more and more upset, and he did try to just remove himself from the situation. She apparently thought it was funny to keep upsetting him and hurting him. I don’t like physical violence but I don’t blame him one bit. People can only take so much.

He knows, he’s playing them off each other. He knows that the majority of people on food stamps work. That data is available. He knows he is using a dog whistle for the racist idea of a welfare queen. He is saying to those white working food stamp recipients “Look, those other folks, those black folks, they don’t work…

Infrastructure when he said it was code for building a wall on the border and oil pipelines. He never meant to do anything useful.