NPR’s style sheet uses “anti-abortion activists,” as far as I can recall.

Tire levers are great for getting the tire off the rim, but you can pop the inner tube with them if you use them to get the tire back on the rim. At least that’s the Received Wisdom.

It’s got more simple starches, is my understanding - higher glycemic index.

Do you also disagree with taxpayers providing heart medication? What about anti-psychotics?

So maybe this isn’t shocking, but there are very few clubs with male strippers that cater to women. And a lot of the gay clubs will keep women out the majority of the time (they’ll have one “ladies’ night” on an off-night each week or each month, for instance.) I’ve been prevented from going to meet with a bunch of…

Anger is an inability to recast things that go wrong as humorous.

Go to Canada, pick up AC&C pills at the pharmacy. It’s not a syrup, but it doesn’t really need to be.

I don’t respect her, she’s basically My Pet Monarch; I like watching her Xmas message, I like having her on the money, but let’s be real - she’s just an old lady who gives speeches sometimes and was born into her job.

I know. I just watched her Christmas message and was filled with fear that there’s a week left for this garbage year to take her. :( I’ll be damned if I’ll ever recognize Charles as king.

I really commend you on doing your best to help people.

True story:

Don’t buy avocados from California. I lived there, they always, invariably, did that. And they were always hella expensive. Worthless.

He was on NPR the week before the election saying he was looking forward to getting his weekends back, because his kids miss him.

You know what would be great? Is if an American version of Little Mosque on the Prairie were possible.

Honestly: it’s got some interesting plot points but the thing that stands out most for me is the last hundred or so pages where the “1337 haxx0r” main character refrains from jacking it to get more haxx0r power. It’s got some gross essentialist gender-role nonsense in it and it’s longer than it needs to be.

She refers to it as “Black Lives Matter More.”

All we want to claim is having burnt down the Whitehouse.

As a queer and as an ex-goth, Anne Rice novels (and Savage Love in the back of the Ottawa XPress) got me through highschool. Nobody else, it seemed, knew how queer those books were, and it was important to me that queerness was just presented matter-of-factly, albeit you know, supernaturally and with sexy sexy…

In the last few years France has passed a lot of laws that are ostensibly about “secularism” but conspicuously allow for displays of Christian faith while putting limits on the expression of Islam. There’s a perception that France is more islamophobic than other countries as a result.

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