For a long time I have been saying that we need to stop using “racist” as a noun and use it only as an adjective. (We have, at least, come to a point as a society that we can agree that racism is bad - this is one of the few areas in which the Left has actually won something) If you call someone a racist, then they…

I used to feel that way myself, once upon a time. I detested Dubya, but I only criticized his policies and didn’t go in for personal attacks. I felt that the position of Commander in Chief deserved some respect, even if the man himself didn’t earn it. But then we got 8 years of all the vileness and crapitude…

Well, it’s true that Trump would have won the popular vote if we ignored California and New York, no way around that. Also, Hillary would have won the electoral college if we just ignored the states where she didn’t win. This argument is a pointless exercise in futility...

Such a damn shame. As you say, the whole Flathead Valley area is beautiful. I haven’t been back to visit that (distant) branch of the family in nearly twenty years, but I treasure the ancient memories that I do have of walking around with my dog on endless country roads in the Fall.

Jesus Christ, are you serious with this? My brother lives in Kallispell! (half-brother, technically, but still) We don’t talk much, and I haven’t been out to visit him in Montana in nearly twenty years, but still... I had no idea it was like that out there. That’s fucking scary.

So... not bothering to clean my house is actually making my kids stronger? Alright, justified! Now I just have to get my mother-in-law on board with this plan...

At this point, Marvel Cinematic Universe is still representing their heroes exactly as they are in the comics (the most well-known iteration, that is). Tony Stark was a white guy with a goatee in the comics, so he is on the screen to make it easier to recognize him. Steven Strange was a white guy on the page and…

I’m not sure what you mean - are you referring to bookstores in general, or specifically to books that I took home from a feline-occupied store? Honestly, I guess it doesn’t matter either way since I’ve never noticed an allergic issue with a book. Or at least, if I did have a reaction I’m pretty good at covering it up…

I discovered something interesting about allergies, but I don’t know if it’s a common occurrence or if it is uniquely personal. Over the course of a year, I acclimated myself to one specific cat and eventually stopped having any allergic reactions to him. It did not, however, make things any easier for me around…

I have extremely mixed feelings about bookstore cats, for the following reasons: I love cats but am simultaneously deathly allergic to them, and bookstores are probably my favorite places on the planet to spend time in. So I have no malice or blame toward the cat who may live in a bookstore and park his furry butt on…

I don’t mean to make light of this, since it is indeed a very serious issue, but... I misread your sentence as “a surge of violence against MOGWAI people” and I was like

Now I want to figure out some way to work “a morass of pre-instantly overanalyzed implications” into a conversation somehow. I have a feeling that no matter how I went about it, though, that I would get smacked in the face. Which is, let’s be honest, the only appropriate response to hearing that phrase.

Allow me to commend you on your Herculean effort to unpack that one sentence. Yeah. Let me repeat that. ONE. SENTENCE.

Yup. Trump is going to be the new baseline for expectations of what a President is and what he can get away with. Most of us assumed that his particular brand of insanity and bullshit was a dealbreaker for the Highest Office In The Land, but we were woefully proven wrong. So his fringe-extremist craziness gets…

Uh... so sorry to break this to you, but... you know that’s not how a nuclear war would work, right? The major cities would be the first to go, and the rural states would possibly be the only people left to survive.

I appreciate you filling in your further thoughts on your point. I understand where you are coming from, even if I don’t entirely agree with you.

I know this is utterly secondary to your point, and I apologize in advance for derailing the conversation (so I’ll make it brief). Your idea that every female character in The Dresden Files is: A. a seductress, B. a damsel in distress, or C. a ball-buster; is utter bullshit. Lara Raith is definitely A. but that’s…

If you were to travel back to 2012 and tell me that I would be desperately wishing for Romney to be president in 4 short years, I’d tell you to gent bent. What a strange year it has been...

“Palatable” is awfully faint praise, but I hear what you are saying.

When everyone kept going on about how we are “living in the darkest timeline” after the election, I insisted that we are living in the second darkest timeline. President Ted Cruz would be the darkest timeline.