More likely that he was controlling a wireless toy.

I don’t know if this is progress or not, but the slightly more self-aware wing of this tribe seems to have spawned the “level-up/high-value man” branch of wayward masculinity. It insists that men recognize the “natural” divides of attraction/desirability and improve themselves (get fit, dress better, make more money,…

All people whose hobbies are not more valuable than human beings. Hobbies. Fucking hobbies. That’s all you’ve got?

Somebody who drives a car while drunk and gets into an accident is misusing that product. Cars aren’t meant to be driven into other cars, or pedestrians, or trees. A gun is designed to do harm, it is designed to do immense trauma to living things. Someone who uses a gun to shoot a person is using it for its intended…

Right, who’s gonna tell Patti LuPone to shut up? She’d rip your arms off.

Can I add from Canada? Please?

I’m a Practicing Black Person.

Thank you. I’m a Canadian of Jamaican descent and the number of times a white person has condescendingly told me I should know my roots because I can’t say much about my family history is crazy. They get done telling me about their great-great-great grandpa and then ask me about mine, like, he was probably a slave?…

While I am entirely comfortable with the term ‘black’ (as a Black American) I am hardly offended by ‘African American’. The reason its so specific to the continent and not a country is that most ‘African Americans’ have little to no idea WHAT country our forefathers were from! Thanks to the international slave trade,…

Is he out to kill the Prime Minister of Malaysia in that pic?

That’s nothing. I drank a bunch of Bud light last night, and now I can't even drum up the energy to take my children to Walmart to get their "Second Sunday of Easter" guns. Guess they'll just have to miss out this year. 

“the National Rifle Association held its annual conference in Indianapolis, Indiana, Friday night [...] Mike Pence, notably, was loudly booed by the crowd” In fairness, they might also hate him from he was the governor there.

Indeed, the perennial right-wing talking point that “an aborted baby could have grown up to be _______, and now that _______ will never exist!” only makes logical sense if you are a total fucking moron.

Spoilers for a century-old book: Most of them won’t.

Nosferatu meets the first part of Jason Takes Manhattan.

Crime has been decreasing noticeably since the 80s, but the problem is that the wealthy elite and politicians NEED crime to siphon power and influence just by pointing a finger and saying, “Look at those criminals! They need to be put in to private prisons! Crime is a business! OUR BUSINESS!”

In my experience, clumps of cells are ill-equipped for most of the tasks required in a 21st century workplace.

They just keep digging. They’re 100 feet down in the hole, and they’re still digging. Fine. All we have to do is keep tossing ‘em more spades.

“I was sitting in my office, listening to Janet Yellen”

“What they did today was equivalent, at least equivalent, maybe worse depending on how you look at it, to doing an insurrection in the State Capitol,” Sexton said on the House floor.