And this is the time every year I return from my little snowflake safespace of Los Angeles to the rotting hellhole of my hometown in rural North Carolina and get the new series of tales about who I grew up with that’s now a strung out junkie, who’s in rehab (for the nth time), who’s kids are living with their…

There’s a weird mix of condescension and lingering guilt over having gotten 2016 so wrong.

My guess is that 1) it’s easier to perpetrate the myth that Trump supporters are all rural, less-educated people and it’s uncomfortable for the reporters to realize they’re also the guy/woman who works in the cubicle right next you at the same office in the same northern big city, who makes just as much money as you,…

My roommate was a Bernie bro until a very long conversation in which I sketched out for him, in detail, how he was actually parroting GOP/Russian/Wikileaks talking points that were not actually true, and how the Republicans had spent tens of millions of dollars on phony investigations to make the American public think…

I honestly just saw a former Pentagon official who knew a lot about UFOs on Velshi & Rule. No, really.

Stew, we’ll make great stew.

That, made me laugh!

You could tell me poor migrant children are being abducted by Ivanka herself and sent to factories where they’re forced to make her jewelry in exchange for food and water and all I’ll say is, “Yeah, that seems about right.”

This is a good post. 2017 has seen a slow but steady erosion of my ability to engage emotionally with complex plotlines or be empathetic to people with destructive behavior. I had fretted that it was indicative of a fundamental shift in my worldview or humanity, but I’m starting to believe that I’m just finally…

I’ve been trying to work out how the bill will change things for a bunch of my friends whom are self-employed creators. I’m basically handling their taxes for them.

This is why the only GOP congressmen that might remotely consider impeaching him are dying or not running until he’s gone. And even then there is little to no chance of it.

That’s corrupt as hell. Everything about that, from staying at his crappy golf course and making people pay to have access to him, to passing his tax bill and telling his club he just got them more money.

But a lot of the WORKING CLASS AMERICANS™ who voted for him are going to see something like 8 extra bucks in their paychecks, so they’ll all scream and preen how Trump fulfilled his promise to alleviate their economic anxiety.

I feel you. I’m trapped at the beach with my entire family and have the blackout curtains shut. There’s also a hidden bottle of rum beside the bed.

My in-laws aren’t worried at all that their Medicare might be on the line once the bill for these tax cuts come through. Their taxes are going down by a whole $50 next year, while Obama made them give up their guns, pray to the east five times a day, and say “happy holidays!” I’m saying I think I’ll be sick before the…

HE IS GOING TO PIVOT SOON, GIVE HIM A CHANCE, WE MUST COME TOGETHER, HE IS GOING TO BECOME PRESIDENTIAL. Fuck every pundit who said that a year ago; a turd is a turd.

That is very kind of you, Kate. She was a lovely woman. The child survived. I don’t know who is raising her, but I know that he parents were devoted to her.

I don’t know how any reasonable adult could look at Vice and not think that it was the personification of a bullshit bro-culture hipness. Maybe that was the issue: not enough adults. The culture at large has been selling the notion of a long-delayed entrance into adulthood for a long time. Vice moving into “hard news”…