I had to submit a grant proposal to the European Science Foundation once and they had these choices. That is all.

I know, right? So giving birth to a bowling ball is...fine...but running is not? Yeah.

(shh) don’t mention land wars in asia. Please don’t give them any ideas. Geebus.

Also old

Ooo, in the mid-90s I inherited someone’s cool overalls and somehow ended up peeing on one of the straps at camp? Yeah.

This is stellar and I love it and pardon me if I’m being too obvious but what do you do when you have to pee I mean.

My gramma was a devout Catholic and she had a whole section in her library on different religious traditions. She was extensively read in a variety of theologies. There’s that intellectual tradition, and then there’s...let’s be evangelical and weird and have a stick up our butts since it’s worked well for the more…

Need to be dumpsters on fire and then we have arrived at total life by bad metaphor

But...but...my mom invented political protests in January 2017!

I only ever read Krugman and Blow in their Op-Eds. I would be suuuper psyched to see them give Lindy West a regular column. With an occasional HamNo guest post. That wouldn’t catch anyone’s hair on fire, not at all...it would be way better though.

Yeah say, how bout we fire them and bar them from future public service

Same. I guess repetition is key...and voting...

Say it again for the ppl in the cheap seats: ENFORCING THE RIGHTS OF A MINORITY GROUP OR ANOTHER TRADITIONALLY EXPLOITED GROUP (I.E. WOMEN) IS A FEDERAL DUTY. IT’S NOT A STATE’S-DISCRETION-TO-FUCK-PEOPLE THING.

If you haven’t already seen this it’s v good (Jez also had an interview with him) http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/willie-parker-taking-back-the-moral-high-ground-on-abortion-w475403

What say we

If he does end up coming up with a way of pulling this sort of benefit out from under that many people all at once, I don’t think it’s him who will be doing the beating. I mean, it comes down to enough people being deprived at a certain point...

Oh, but but

It would seem that way! We had GW in my 20s, which was not really that long ago, and I thought that was bad?

They want it when it works in their favor. Not so much otherwise.

I worked with a couple Japanese-American guys who were also interned. We. Are. Not. Going. Back. Not doing it.