I took a break from my normal teaching gig at Flyover State University to teach at Berkeley a few years back. I was invited by a colleague who thankfully was vacating her house for the term so I got to live rent free. Without it, I just wouldn’t have been able to make it work. The rents were just crushing. I asked my…

So, it’s basically Boston with better weather. 

Not free, but not expensive. When I started in the UC system almost 30 years ago (fuck...), I think my tuition+fees was about $1500 a year. I put myself through the first couple of years of school with a part-time job and a very small loan. 

Ha ha ha ha ha HA HA HA HA HA!!!... [weeps]

To me it’s a criticism that says nothing. White women always vote Republican; white women voting for Trump is like water making you wet. That’s how it works. Hillary actually did better with some demographics than previous candidates; she won white women with college degrees 51-44. Anyway, it’s hardly reasonable to…

Can I come and clean toilets or wash dishes? I can do both at the same time depending on how casual you are with health codes...

Sounds like solid strategy, and a perfect rationale to ditch Pelosi and Feinstein already.

Yeah, she’d go down in flames here. We have to carefully spoonfeed one or two progressive ideas with a sugary coating of decorated combat pilot.

Ugh. I HATE the wink and the nod from racist assholes. I’m not in your club, shitheel. Go play Confederacy LARP with someone else.

Good way for your dog to get hurt. Not everyone will be kind to an animal running up to them.

For fucking real...

Trump forgot to mention the human trafficking ring run out of the back.

Excellent. 

And while we’re arguing about jackets (spoiler alert: she’s as dead inside as her husband; everyone knew that already), the Starve Grandma bill is crawling its way out of committee, like a creeping horror scratching under the cabin floorboards.

Meal plan. Shop with a list. It works.

Trump is not unique or remarkable in his evil, as this kind of polling reveals. His voters were (in the main) General Issue Republicans, and his policies are as well. If he had a nicer tone and could pretend to play well with others, George Snuffleupagus would be on the Sunday TV with Susan Collins and John McCain…

I’m with you in theory, but... you go to the hospital with the rigged insurance system you have, not the one you wish you had.

What’s mid-October like? I might be going around then for a long weekend.

“openly and thoroughly back the Kurds fighting Assad”

“not starting a war is a rather arbitrary bar given all the other atrocities this man has committed against innocent people”