lol, bingo!

Thanks for this article Rooo.

“He obviously meant ‘niggardly’! You’re the real racist here!”

I remember being called a “fucking Nazi” in the hallway by two American classmates after watching Night and Fog in history class in 11th grade (I’m in my fifties now). Generational guilt is an elusively difficult thing to grapple with.

When I accidentally dial into a recording of Trump speaking on the radio I always kind of surprise myself at how violently I slap at the button to TURN IT OFF NOW OH GOD TURN IT OFF!

Outstanding! Did you know one of the first recorded telephone prank calls was by a German, Carl Bosch (of all people)?

I’m betting he didn’t call Angela Merkel.

The damage that the belief in American exceptionalism has done abroad is huge. The damage it has done domestically is incalculable: the steadfast faith that it can’t happen here is fueled by many decades of propaganda shouting “keep the world safe for democracy!”.

Ha, too true. But what these “Pelosi’s an establishment pig, glad Trump won, burn it all down!” lefties don’t always seem to understand (and I know a few of them) is that Trump & Co. are NOT burning it all down to replace it with Glorious Social Equity or even Libertarian I’ve-Got-Mine-Fuck-Y’all Paradise; the…

It’s been a pretty shitty administration.

It’s the habituation of abuse. Many conservatives — certainly the American variety drawn to Trump — share a fairly authoritarian mindset, which, when played out in the nuclear family, comes complete with lovely parental behaviors like physical discipline, micromanagement, obsessive behavioral monitoring, and emotional…

It’s the tiny little hands that really clinch the verisimilitude, no?

And as things have transpired in just the few days since posting that, it does appear that this Ukraine affair is at the heart of a corrupt multi-actor attempt to circumvent lawful exercise of governmental power.

Even with medical reasons, it was still a challenge to have it done. An absolute right of abortion would swing the pendulum in such a way that it would be legal for anyone at any time at any stage of gestation to have an abortion. Is that a desirable outcome?

This, so much this. I live in a big rural state with a large red base and every time I venture into the backwoods, I am astonished at how poorly these people eat. They eat largely prepackaged, salty carbohydrates that are half chemical preservatives, in cans, or frozen. Obviously this is partially due to the corporate…

I sympathize with your viewpoint, but living in a big rural red state, the largest danger I see is the incipient malnutrition of the Trump troops, not their homicidal stamina. The ones I know in the backwoods of Maine (proudly flying the confederate flag while Joshua Chamberlain rolls in his grave) are probably fairly…

Lifelike, ain’t it? German illustrator, I believe; they really know their pork.

There used to be an amazing Basque family-style restaurant in the Tenderloin in San Francisco that we frequented as grad students, but now I’m just klang-associating.