God, this region has some of my favorite expressions of outrage. That show in Assad’s mouth juuuust squeaks into second place after throwing a shoe at whomever you’re mad at. Epic.

I feel like if we do this we *have to* squeal ‘yeehaw’ as we speed off.

OH. IN THE NEAR COMPLETELY WHITE CROWD, AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMAN WAS THE FIRST ARREST. HOW ASTONISHINGLY UNPREDICTABLE.

How much trouble would you be in if you just stuck a shoe in its mouth, or smashed the face and then peed on it, Syrian-style?

There’s actually a worse interpretation. Trump does own the winery but has apparently divested over conflict-of-interest liabilities. But, in reality, we know that he has divested of none of it, and has just as much as admitted it.

I happened upon a husky mix 5 years ago and after several weeks of searching for her home with no luck, decided to keep her. She is the sweetest dog but Jesus is she hard work. They’re escape artists and runners and will not stop. After an entire year of obedience school and a real-time GPS collar, we’re a lot…

Kids know a bully when they see one.

... but less honest.

I posted this on another thread, but I think a lot of it bears repeating. The justification for tearing down these statues lies in the reality of the Confederacy and how it began.

The accurate Confederate elements to be memorialized should be:

This is even more obvious when you consider that many of them were erected, not after the civil war, but in response to various civil rights demonstrations throughout the early and mid 1900's as a blatent threat to African Americans and promise to stay committed to white supremacy.

Ironically, this new version of the statue is a more accurate representation of the historical Confederacy, at least before the end of Reconstruction.

Every once in a while it’s good to step back and take a look at the people close to you and the people you choose to associate with, and ask whether you are proud of your association, and if not, what it is about you and your values that is causing you to associate with people like that?

For a brief moment, I had a soft spot in my cold, jaded heart; I even thought (naively) “Maybe she has gained some personal insight, has remorse, and is willing to function as an example of exactly how this administration really views women (looking at you, the 53% of white women who voted for Orange Smarmalade); she…

For him it must have been like looking in a magical mirror that gave him a chin.

“There were some...very high-profile people who are supposedly pro-life, who knew me and heard about what happened, and who didn’t reach out,” she said. “I thought it was very telling … You see these people saying, ‘Oh, we should reach out to women with unexpected pregnancies and let them know they’re not alone’—and…

His complaint was nothing but a version of “O-KAYYY, Mom, I SAID I was SORRY! Jeez, what more do you want??” after Mom forces you to apologize to your sister. He’s such a fucking toddler.