Looking at that header photo, I’m reminded that it all comes back to that hair.

I...believe him, actually. A lot of newly-sober people acquire hobbies to stay busy in the time they previously would have spent boozing/using.

Sorry, all — the capitalist machine was briefly owning me.

“What advantages does this war have over, say, an ethnic cleansing, which I could also afford?”

Man I loved this show. Casting was so, so perfect. Laura Dern needs to be in EVERYTHING. And I usually find Nicole Kidman very heavy-handed with her acting, but she was subtle and great in this. Everyone was. I’ll really miss it.

Peggy Noonan photo means it’s Peggy Noonan Worst Writing Time.

It also means he got drunk once and cheated on his wife.

As long as you can get American soldiers killed, you will always have defenders, because there will always be people who think saying that American soldiers were sent somewhere to die for no good reason is more offensive than sending American soldiers somewhere to die for no good reason.

There’s a reason education sucks, it’s the same reason that it will never, ever, ever be fixed. It’s never going to get any better, don’t look for it, be happy with what you got. Because the owners of this country don’t want that. I’m talking about the real owners, now. The real owners, the big wealthy…

“Most horrifically, if we are still able to identify horror in our daily stew of urgent and physically-sickening emotions, is that Trump hasn’t really been all that involved in the writing of his executive orders (not that he’d likely help) and didn’t mean to appoint Steve Bannon, his white supremacist chief advisor…

Look, the whole world mocked you when Bush was in charge; we respected you again with Obama. Now we’re all just ashamed and angry at you, giving you side eye and hoping support for fascists isn’t catching, and that our leaders ignore Trump’s tantrums and don’t let him start WW3.

Yeah, that definitely seems like old man shade (which can be a surprisingly vicious form of shade) to me.

God, it is sad the Red Scare-era quotes are still so relevant, but:

I think you’ve described their thinking very well. I also think, well, this:

“The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”

Ah, youth. I tried listening to those Jacques Lu Cont remixes but I’m just too old

Interesting trend I’ve noticed in my own life: I almost NEVER get catcalled when I actually put effort into my appearance. It’s virtually ALWAYS when I rolled out of bed and put on a coat to walk down to the drugstore, or I’m on my way to the hair salon, or it’s a Monday in the middle of the school year and I’m fresh…

If he’s kind and treats her right, then she did just fine. As amazing as she is I’m sure she has dealt with MANY MANY men who couldn’t handle her success, etc and if she found a man that loves everything about her? Great.

As an Armenian, I can totally relate to this, since recognition of the Armenian genocide in 1915 is still denied by Turkey to this day. (And still not federally recognized by America due to political reasons.) Denying the genocide means you think my grandparents, great-grandparents, and all Armenians at the time, are…