I thought that was very good of CNN to include that. They recognize that something close to half the country would spend yesterday feeling unmoored, unsafe, generally triggered.

Grey here too. It’s both heartening and heartbreaking that yesterday, the National Sexual Assault Hotline got a 201% increase in calls during the hearing. 

Since I’m doomed to live in the greys, I’m not certain if anyone will see this... Just found this graphic with sexual assault hotline phone numbers within CNN’s Kavanaugh confirmation coverage, and I don’t think it can be repeated enough right now:

What I think when I hear people say “it’s fine”:

I read the entire MPR report. It is excellent, well-research, and Laura is completely believable. The abuse she suffered is almost diabolical - her father skirted the legal boundaries, but still satisfied his own base and destructive urges at her expense. Almost like he knew just how far he could go before he ventured…

“Her uncle contacted the local police and county sheriff’s offices, which launched an investigation but closed it after two months, citing insufficient proof...”

My wife described the tone as Black Mirror meets Wes Anderson.

“Party Of Family Values”.

Does this feel very Terry Gilliam to anybody else? I’m not seeing his name mentioned a lot in reviews of this but I feel him everywhere. The “mystery” and way things evolve give the vibe of a grungy Terry Gilliam dystopia-fantasy, with hints of 12 Monkeys, Brazil, The Fisher King, and Zero Theorem. For a director with…

Hey, how about you try watching it and formulating an opinion either way before commenting on it? Crazy, I know.

Stop it guys, it might not be your thing but it certainly isn’t bullshit or meandering trash by any applicable measure.

“—that is such bullshit I can hardly stand it.”

I’m sure Senator Hirono’s GOP colleagues will soon grumble about her lack of propriety and decorum in the above comments as part of a larger critique on the loss of civility in politics to which I say SIT AND SPIN, FUCKFACES!

This essay should be FAR more widely read:

Yes!!! This is work, people! It’s literally an office environment like any other. Imagine if your boss got caught jerking off in front of women, was fired, and then nine months later was rehired. Ridiculous!

I would also like to point out that Louis getting back into the business throws an admitted predator into the work place for these comedians. Women will continue to feel unsafe in a business that basically says that a famous man is more important than a safe work environment.

Oh, I’m pretty sure the war on drugs worked exactly as designed. In that it was never meant to eradicate drug abuse and keep the population addiction free, it was designed to fill up privately owned prisons with POCs, giving slavery a 21th century update.

Granddad’s drug war is over, he just doesn’t know it yet. Even people that don’t like or give a shit about weed don’t think it should be illegal anymore. How do I know? Because I don’t particularly care for weed, but I also don’t give a shit if people use it, and making it illegal has just put a bunch of people…