It probably helps to be from the culture: my mother is from Lake Woebegone, so she knows all those people; sure, the names were different, but it was her community all the same. I have never heard a human being laugh so long or so hard as when the first Lake Woebegone book came out.

It’s just you.

You don’t understand boring. It’s an acquired taste.

All I know is my local PBS radio station breaks their all-classical programming (they’re the only classical radio in my city) to air it, which hacks me off to no end.

No, the argument is that teaching poor people how to manage their finances won’t do anything positive. They already know how to manage their fiances. They just don’t have enough finances to be managed in the first place. Republicans are evil because they’re effectively wanting to teach a starving man in the desert how…

I mean, the judge in the Stanford swimmer rape judge let the culprit off easy. That’s why they’re judges – they get quite a bit of leeway in sentencing (leeway that has legal bounds but is still largely subjective).

I’m not in Kentucky, but even so. The reason my kids are on Medicaid is that, despite the fact that I work full-time, I also have an ex who refuses to pay any child support. I’m also a small-business owner and I don’t currently have enough income to support my kids without their father pulling some of his own damn…

I can’t even count how many times someone who has money has come to me and tell me that I am poor because I don’t know how to manage my money, I am poor because I don’t make enough money to manage. It is a simple concept that people with money can’t understand.

Oh, I wish her a restful recuperation. Chemo works, but it knocks the stuffin’ out of you.

I’ll add to that by saying the when you insult men by attacking their masculinity (which is what is happening when you make fun of a small penis) then you are encouraging them to lean in to macho, shitty, antics because you literally just told them they are not “manly” enough.
I’m not defending this guy, or guys that…

Okay then, so I’ll be the killjoy who points out that this is body shaming and there’s a litany of other wonderful insults that aren’t.

Also (because I am steaming right now) this shit?

I don’t smoke anything, I do think tobacco smoke is worse- this guy sat next to me at the movies this week and took 3 smoke breaks and I felt like I was dying- but agree, no one should be smoking anything in a rented room and it’s a dick move

This is what all marijuana smokers think. As someone who works in college residence halls, the vast majority of smokers are completely nose blind to the smell of weed. I’ve had to bring in professional cleaners to get the smell out on a multitude of occasions. This is also true for vaporizers. Now, if you want to not…

The best guide IMO to Three Billboards is this twitter thread:

Even though I wasn’t a big fan of Three Billboards, I kind of want Sam Rockwell to win if only so that his dad will post another NYT comment.

“Full loaves. Full seven grain fresh from Panera loaves.”

And also, it’s going to put off the Norwegians.

I realize this was cathartic for many, but not for me. Millions of things could happen including Mueller finding tapes of Trump committing treason while being peed on by hookers, but none of it really matters while the Republicans burn the world. . This sketch felt too much like counting the chickens before the eggs…