Ireland has truly been a light. I’m a half German-half US citizen and the past few years have been an increasing exercise in nail-biting.

All of his facial features have crowded together in the middle of the vast flesh of his head, like they’re huddling for safety.

Honestly, Mike, I’ve backed away from participating much these days due to the surfeit of disingenuous, largely rightwing trolls that have been inexplicably ungrayed since the last big purge. Was nice while it lasted, perhaps?

Ugh, he’s just a fucking caricature of a human, isn’t he?

Then ve just vait our turn to vash, of course. Waschbären go first.

In German we call them Washbears.

True story: I was at the lumberyard buying some boards a while back, wheeled them out to my car and some hero in the parking lot decided to help me lift them into the deck. Unfortunately he saw the American flag I’d tossed back there when my mother-in-law was throwing it out and I snagged it as free material - he then…

Or not. Better chances of a fatal outcome if he’s not tested.

No, adjunct professors often literally not “qualified” to teach lower levels, because many states require certification for public school teaching and do not automatically accept a PhD as equivalent.

Sadly, I’ve come to believe they may be more like Stephen Miller’s highschool political campaign, which was based on getting the staff of color to do more of the cleaning-up. Erk.

It wasn’t the deaths per se; I think people are agreeing with Sapolchnik’s correct instinct that the Long Night episode should have carried more meaning for the narrative than it ultimately did, be it via more deaths or anything else of deeper emotional import.

I assume that they did themselves no favors when they filmed what was taken as a clear rape scene with a woman saying “No!” repeatedly and a man proceeding forcefully nonetheless, and then claimed that everybody was just reading it wrong and it had been a consensual scene. The writers’ inability to reflect on how or…

Yep. His books are the literary equivalent of the “I want to speak to your manager!” haircut.

Yeah, that word as he invokes it is hiding a shit-ton of ugly.

I have a cousin who is deaf since childhood from getting measles just prior to available vaccinations, and this kind of story utterly infuriates me.

I like that, along with Gestational Slavers for the anti-abortion crowd. Call these things what they really are. Name them.

You double-dipper, you!

Up here in the far north we’ve given up on street potholes and now just concentrate on trying to get the city to occasionally repair our sidewalk potholes.

It’s also not the cost of the actual packet of pills or the diaphragm or the IUD or that is the greatest expense for women: it’s the required regular doctor’s visits to secure and maintain the appropriate prescription for it, get it sized, inserted, removed, replaced, etc etc.

lol