Flat-Earther Kitt. Comedy gold.

This kind of stuff goes on in parts of Queens all the time, and no one ever hears about it until some tragedy strikes and you see it on the local news.

She’s a complete hack, attaching herself to one failed Democratic campaign after another. Jesse Jackson in 1984, then moving over to Mondale; Gephardt in 1988 and then Dukakis (and was forced to resign); laid low during the Clinton years because Bill knew how to win; ran Al Gore’s campaign in 2000 which really was a…

I seem to remember that there was a study done about racial attitudes not that long ago. I can’t remember how it was structured but it was something like “Do you have any friends of a different race?” and lots and lots of people said yes. Then they asked, “Have you ever had someone of a different race in your home?”…

It’s happened to my black husband (I’m white.) Our friendship circles are like a Venn diagram, with my friends, his friends, and mutual friends. My favorite example of this is I was at some “my friends” party (my husband took a pass, and I don’t blame him) and one of the attendees said, “A really good friend of mine…

Oh he’s a true believer, an Ayn Rand acolyte since at least college (which he paid for with saved up survivor Social Security benefits, but then again, Ayn Rand herself collected Social Security. Unbridled Libertarianism for thee, but not for me!)

I wonder if Janesville, Wisconsin-born Paul Ryan is the whitest American. I should wander over to The Root and ask Michael Harriot what he thinks. Maybe propose a bracket tourney we could all vote in.

I want to know more about this couple in their 60s. If they’re in a DC diner/bar at 11PM on a Thursday night I’d imagine they were local (the tourists would be too exhausted from roaming free on the Mall all day.) Even if they don’t live among black people and have no black friends, do they not see black people…

I don’t know personally any flight crew members who work for AA but my gay black husband flies them all the time, to the point where when I fly with him we’re auto-upgraded into Business Class and they greet him by name like a long-lost brother. I’ve actually said to him on two flights, about the flight attendants,…

A relative lives in SC. She sends her children to part-time Christian grade school. She does the rest herself (homeschooling). Those two kids will be able to vote in 10 or 12 years.

I wonder how long it’s going to take until other countries crack down on Americans trying to visit abroad in retaliation. Not all wealthy American retirees are lunatics like the Paddock nutjob who shot up Las Vegas, but the Paddock nutjob was a wealthy American retiree, and better safe than sorry.

Someone needs to tell old Bets that the godless socialists in Cuba quarantined HIV+ positive people starting in 1986, so this is their idea. Does she believe in Cuban-style socialism? Hmm? Does she?

The (perhaps only) nice thing about getting older is you realize that so many younger people have missed so much. My buddies and I used to haunt a dance club/video bar and whenever The Time’s “Jungle Love” came on we’d stop in our tracks and stare mesmerized at the video wall. Plus I can still do a passable “Oak…

That was interesting, but this new mandatory use of rubles only covers what it costs to physically get it onshore.

It’s not only the nukes and military prowess.

Said the man who took a $77,000 tax deduction on a prancing horse his wife had part ownership of.

And you know I bet he would/will visit the school, and hang out with the kids, and everyone would have a great time.

I’m sure none of the people in this situation thought about this, but there’s an older meaning to diverse, meaning surprisingly different. “We’ve had three weeks of 90-degree temperatures, but today it is only going to be 40 degrees, which is diverse from the norm.” If I visited a school named after Jefferson Davis…

I think by now all the high schools have names. Some are named after people, some are named after specialties (like The High School for Culinary Arts) and some are aspirational (The High School for Excellent Performance, I’m making this up but the names are like this.)