And here I was wondering why the monkeys needed to be wearing lederhosen — obviously that’s for the peace in the middle east part of things.

I think it’s more that we weren’t aware of the history. Not following celebrity news/gossip, I hadn’t heard about the whole gross background story. The cat and I enjoy an astrophysics show he narrates and that’s all I knew.

Right there with you. But, happily, all evidence suggests Mr. Rogers was actually that astonishingly decent when the cameras were not rolling, too. Not a creeper story anywhere to be found. Many stories have a note of hushed astonishment that he was that genuinely nice* in person. He might be the ONLY ONE.

The iron horse was never alive, so can it even be considered dead? And wouldn’t beating a train hurt the idiot beating it — deservedly so? Also at what point was beating a horse alive or dead ever acceptable?! These questions are too much for me pre-coffee. I was just trying to be helpful (again, pre-coffee. I’m…

You were expecting logic in the form irrational hate and small-minded ignorance takes?

Oh, and in case you missed it.

If you read the article, it describes an incident happening in public at a press junket. Do you think those are particularly private? If what you’re getting out of this article or any of the recent avalanche of such articles is “never ever be alone with a woman,” you have missed the point, could well be part of the…

Sorry ...for beating a dead horse. Didn’t see your eventual research epiphany.

“at least somewhat gay” — no, that would, assuming her actual preferences are involved, mean that she is bisexual.

Except that the steam locomotive was called the iron horse.

Are you scared of them? Are you a little girl?

Imagine how awful it must be to be a writer over at The Onion. What on earth could you possibly write that won’t be one-upped within 24 hours by actual headlines? Those poor bastards.

The last couple of years have been eye-opening for me to the theme of “virulent ___ is more widespread than I previously realized.” Despite belonging to several categories of “other,” I somehow didn’t know how wide and deep the river of hatred was. I don’t know if I was lucky, privileged to a far higher degree than I…

Planned Parenthood has a donation-matching fundraiser running from now to the end of June. Just sayin’.

Nope! Not gonna look! If I looked, I’d feel the need to unpick the grammar, correct the historical inaccuracies — starting with explaining the Enlightenment, it’s view of organized religion, and the how that, in turn, was a major influence on what ended up in the U.S. Constitution — and bitch-slap all the stupid. Like…

Oh, man, just the blurb of that book is seriously scary and outright wrong — historically, factually, and grammatically. Downright unhinged.

Truly, these are the darkest times.

Fuuuuck. This is going to end up costing lives. Oh, right, that’s a feature, not a bug.

Wait. What?

Unfortunately, making a “women’s safety issue” pushes it even further down the priority list of “Things To Address,” because women are, at best, second class citizens (when they’re not being told they’re walking incubators).