Far healthier attitude.

I was also quite young when this came out. I had no idea wtf this was supposed to be or why it was happening. I stand by that opinion.

Well, I think so, Bart, but I can’t memorize a whole opera in Yiddish.

No no no. See, you’re supposed to pare down your life to nothing, post many, many photos online to show the sleek emptiness of the space you inhabit, and then run out and buy whatever-it-is you need when the need arises. ...and then purge it before someone spots you owning more than a pair of skinny chinos and a wine…

I took it as a unit of measure specific to drugs — instead of pounds of coke, there were 12 Iggys of coke — that were in the room.

As if that thief would leave the money.

More important question: would you eat anything the orange shitgibbon offered you? You know he doesn’t wash his hands.

Forget being shot into space, turned into a tree, or converted into a diamond, I have found the method by which I wish to be buried. Yes, in the tub, with the Nutella. I want to live my best life, even in death.

How about we see how many GOP asshats anyone can get to sprint into cinderblocks. Anyone who gets north of 5 earns the moniker.

But wasn’t he personally entertaining and sexing up half of Europe at the time? Sure, they’d let him slide with a lame excuse. Ol’ Benny knew how to throw a party and he didn’t mind enabling the laughter at his expense — he cheerfully wore a coonskin cap to play up the perceptions of hillbilly Americans. In short, Ben…

I believe you have identified the key dividing line between excellent schadenfreude and “oh, hell, this asshat is just gonna go bigger next time.” I applaud your work and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

My MFA and paintbrushes stand ready to assist!

Daaaamn. I mean, deservedly so, but daaaaaaamn.

Uphill, both ways, with a paper card catalog. :)

Thank you very much! May the universe pony up the caffeinated beverage I’d buy you if only I could.

Hey. Upthread you implied you teach rhetoric. I have a lit degree, write for a living, and, yet, never formally studied it. I may have been horrifically wrong-headed idea of what “rhetoric” entailed until The Elements of Eloquence, during which I muttered, “Oh! That’s what we call that thing” quite a lot.

I would add that that argument also implies that whatever thought that the speaker wanted to express around that word is worthy of sharing. Nope.

You are correct. Thank you. I know better, I was just having a long, crappy day and my defenses were low. Migraines and mandatory diversity training should be legally disallowed to happen on the same day.

Yesterday, I endured “diversity training.” The facilitator told a story of a manager having to navigate a white subordinate directly asking a black coworker “why he couldn’t use that word, too.” She stated the question “could have been coming from a genuine place of curiosity.”

But, he’s intentionally misquoting Tolkien and misunderstanding the context, to boot. It’s hard, when you’ve had a rough day and people are wrong on the internet. Would it be so wrong just to fix the damn quote? Pleeeeease?