A few years ago I had a really awful sinus infection: I was legit in bed with a fever for 2 weeks thanks to asthma induced breathing issues and then struggled to get out of bed for another 2 weeks over winter break. This show was the only bright spot in that time: no fighting, no drama, no unhappiness. People were…

I LOVE that this guy is tooting his own horn over less than 50%. He does understand that other presidents have had higher, rights? (J/K, he has no sense of history). I mean, he should just go full dictator and claim that 101% love him.

Weird. I just read something like this in Mary Roach’s new book on military/scientific science and bear/shark attacks.

Didn’t she have to file for bankruptcy? I sometimes wonder how rich these women are. Like anyone actually wealthy wouldn’t go on these shows, would they? I think I read that most of them are upper-middle class (still 1000 times wealthier than I ever will be).

Actually, I think that party-line voting definitely got to the point. I think it’s definitely “it can’t happen to me” mentality. I see this with my in-laws. They have many kids in the family who have severe disabilities, and are dependent on government money for services, and they themselves have positions in the…

I have to be honest, I see maybe some impeachment trial happening, but he won’t go to jail. He’ll get pardoned. They always get pardoned.

What I really, REALLY don’t understand about Trump voters is that they swore Obama was a Communist and then they are *literally* in admiration of a man who has ties TO A FORMALLY COMMUNIST NATION. That’s so much fucking disconnect. And now, idiot voters are like “what’s so bad about Putin,” because, I’m guessing,…

Yeah, way too few parts for women and POC, but the depiction of Republicans as sensible and equally ethical made it feel like a sci-fi show ;)

Oh man, I just started binging on West Wing and it physically hurts how optimistic, ethical, and intellectual the characters are (at least by season 2). The political arena now feels more cartoonish and impossible 

I really miss those first seasons of Scandal; there was more complexity there. I’ve stuck through it, but the show has made some seriously bad choices, and I feel like giant events like Mellie’s rape or Fitz’s gun shot are mostly used as plot points to move a story forward.

I read that basically she found out that the show was going to be canceled and she blew the shit out of her budget and just did whatever she wanted. It showed. I really liked Roseanne and was disappointed by that ending. It was stupid and pointless.

Guardians. I was ambivalent towards the first, but man, they pack so much emotion into that movie and give a lot of solid backstory to every character. Characters I disliked from the first, I rooted for in the second. Would see again, and I am not a person who can easily sit through a 2+ hour movie. :)

Their commercials are so over the top and still, so often, sexist as fuck. I have a field day teaching these in my rhetoric courses. Kids defend these to the death (dove really cares about ME) and every time I have to explain the marketing decision to use “real” women centered around their marketing firm’s realization…

Oh God, that one hurt me to my core, because I’m such a Martha. The bible likes to short-change hard workers in parables.

This is why I’m baffled when my friends say shit like “I mean, how do I teach values outside of Christian norms,” as if they short-change their kids by raising them without religion. I’m an atheist, but I don’t go around committing crime because I don’t believe in heaven.

Chiming in late, but anything by David Sedaris. He’s like Lawson (I think, a bit funnier) and his essays address funny stories that also can be a little dark (his family initially rejected him for being gay), but in a way that makes me feel not alone when I’m sad. Feel better!

It’s a state that has so much to offer: the research triangle, a beautiful coast, good universities, but people here want to drag themselves into the past. It’s depressing.

I’m honestly as bewildered by it as you, haha, and I live here. In the more rural areas, I see giant crosses in people’s yards, and I *think* they are supposed to be dripping blood to show the blood of “the lamb?” They are usually next to giant signs that say “repent” or Bible verses, or “abortion kills.” It’s about a…

Man, is it getting old living in North Carolina. I’d say I don’t understand how these people stay in office. But then I remember I’m in a liberal, college town bubble, and if I drive about 10 miles north, I’d see 7-foot tall PVC crosses dripping with fake blood in people’s yards, and I’d know exactly how this shit…

I think that the issue here is that there simply are circumstances where people’s situations matter more and you have to be selfless. If there was a doctor who needed to get to patients and I was getting married the next day (and I say this as someone who just got married and, yes, paid for it), I would step up in…