I’m usually on team cake, but I gotta recognize.

I wish I could star this twice. 

certainly easy for me to say as a 53 yo cis male, but having specific memories of Anita Bryant’s crusade which would have BANNED GAYS FROM BEING TEACHERS among other horrific crap, does give me some feeling that things have improved. As bad as things are, in the very recent past, there was real “mainstream” debate…

Yes! For several years, actually. Gay bars actually led the charge - they stopped ordering orange juice; instead of screwdrivers, some bars served cocktails with vodka and apple juice (and called it the Anita Bryant cocktail). Some also put signs outside of their establishments’ windows to proclaim why they were…

People boycotted orange juice???

I was channel surfing earlier and Match Game was on. The prompt was something along the lines of, “You’re sitting at a slot machine and pull all oranges. Instead of money, blank comes out.” Most of the celebrities answered “Juice”, but one woman said Anita Bryant, which totally went over my head. Someone else made a…

Very nice. 

Well, it was the boycott of orange juice that hastened her secular demise, but the pie sure boosted the signal! What a great day.

Well, duh. Those are men. Men are forgivable.

After the divorce, she opened a fashion boutique in Alabama, which failed because nobody in the fashion biz wanted to sell to her or have their brands identified with her. For a singer, she was really tone deaf.

That same year, she and her husband, Bob Green, got divorced. This prompted the religious right to turn against her, lest they make a divorcée the face of American family values.

Well, that’s what people get for being overly pieous.

Pie really does solve all life’s problems.

Generally, I agree with you. I have a hard time reading anything by HamNo and Burneko because their style and written voice frustrates me, even though their content and argument (meat, as it were) is usually pretty good. That being said, I think Roth is a very good writer and his style is weird enough, but very much…

What’s even sadder is how much of the kool-aide his followers have drunk. I remember speaking to someone shortly after the election and the most telling portion was how they compared Hilary and Trump.

It’s a good analysis but it’s lazily written and even more lazily (if at all) edited.

Oh, shit, yeah, I thought that was a given. No library, no state funeral (he’s already spent enough time lying in state, amirite?), none of the post-office accoutrements.

This sounds like a Black Mirror ep. But one in which we don’t sympathize with the protagonist at all.

The Donald J. Trump Presidential Library is just going to be the husk of a dry docked riverboat that was, for some odd ass reason, left in the Poconos.

Trump actually used the snake parable for campaign rallies? Holy fuck, he must have just been taunting at that point!