The best answer to “DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?” is always “Sorry, but no.”

I’m a celiac vegetarian, who doesn’t eat mushrooms. And I’ve been vegan. Fuck these assholes. If I go anywhere that I suspect won’t have what I need at-the-ready, I call ahead, and ask. And if it’s a fancy place, I ask for the notes to be added to my reservation.

To be honest, I’ve spent so much of my life angry at the basic injustices inherent to both this country and the human condition that I think I’ve transmogrified that feeling into something akin to a fuel source.

I can’t quite get my head around the contradictory desire among so many white people to be racist but not be called racist.

Oh no, I love DC. I just hate that fucking football team. I also love San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, I don’t hate LA, and I’d probably like both Chicago and Milwaukee if I went there.

Perfect. You know the sad thing about this? Black Leaf actually is a pretty decent D&D name, unlike Elfstar, who is presumably an Elf. That’s like being named Humanda.

The name of the team says it all.

Grew up in DC. Can’t pretend I’m objective.

“THE CHURCH IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE”

There was a story a few months back (I believe it was on Kotaku) about how a child was left in a GameStop by their parents and the kid got nabbed by some creeper. The employee rescued the kid so all was well, but this is the reason why it’s wrong to leave your child in any place that is not a child care center. It is…

Because he was four. Four-year-olds by definition can’t take care of themselves to that extent. They can play by themselves at home while an adult is in a different room nearby, but the mall is not their house, the bookstore is not the playroom, and the bookstore employees are not paid child-care workers. There’s an…

It was really a liability issue, combined with the age of the child. If something had fallen on him, if he’d fallen and hit his head, if he’d been kidnapped? We live in way too litigious of a society for my manager not to be super concerned about the possible ramifications of a small child alone in the store. Plus…

Because a book store isn’t a babysitter and you can’t just leave your kids. Well behaved or not, parents can’t just dump their kids elsewhere to go get their nails done/eat food/shop/whatever. Don’t want to have to deal with your kids? Get a babysitter before you go out.

The Greatest Irony of All: If it weren’t for women members, there would be no churches. Anywhere.

Yes! This was fifteen years ago. The family has healed from the experience and they’re all much better for it. They don’t even live in the same town anymore.

There’s a new commercial on Hulu for United Methodist Churches that says “Church can happen anywhere” ...that phrase really scares me for some reason...like I’m going to wake up in my house, go downstairs, and there’s church going on.... gives me the chills.

Ultraconservative Christians aren’t opposed to sharia because they think it inflicts inexcusable misery on innocent people, they’re opposed because it inflicts inexcusable misery on innocent people in the name of the wrong god.

When they said they would pray for them:

A friend of mine, who was contemplating divorce so much she actually had the papers drawn up, posted the umbrella image about a year later. All I could do was