lol do u even republican, bro?

You have the correct take here and the commentariat at Splinter has lost their goddamn minds.

A little background:

The buy-in cost for potentially getting $1M to give to charity was whatever meager amount for a DNA test, the 10 minutes it probably took to swab a cheek and mail off the sample, and the willingness to share the results with the public.

When do we stop calling organizations like the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation ‘think tanks’ and call them what they really are: Centers to dismantle progressive, democratic advances made over the 20th in favor of predatory capitalism and reactionary (racist, sexist) social mores.

On one hand I agree, on the other hand I think it’s worthwhile for people to see how interconnected we we all are abs that everyone came from somewhere. I think it contributes to a global perspective. If being 2% Malaysian forces someone to care about Malaysia more, I call that a success. 

Yup. She still is by people who are now pushing the right-wing smear that she claimed to be Native American, which she did not nor does she now.

Exactly.  It’s petty, but I fucking love that she did it.

Right? It’s annoying and embarrassing that politics have come to this but at the end of the day, here we are. She’s right, he’s wrong and she is the one with the paperwork to prove it.

If this only serves to kneecap Trump again, I’m happy she did it. 

The media needs to describe all of these voter suppression efforts as CHEATING to win elections. Because that is what it is and that is a much clearer way to describe to regular people what is going on. Americans understand cheating is wrong. They don’t necessarily get different the nuances of various forms of…

I could deal with the Right if we just had differences of opinions on fact based issues (when life begins, small government vs big, etc.). But the Right has no interest in a level playing field. I don’t know how you make peace with yourself if you have to cheat to win but I guess that’s the root of the problem. They…

I don’t love this Stephen Miller story. Can’t we just focus on his rabid xenophobia without throwing little weirdos under the bus?

This could be straight out of The Shining, where all the hedge animals start stalking Danny when he isn’t looking!

Yooooo I would watch this movie.

I revisited Pet Sematary early this summer. Reading the novel again nearly 30 years after the first time, now as an adult and a parent, was really impactful. Totally different aspects of the story stood out to me, most of all Louis Creed’s pain and psychosis that kicks off with that first day of work on campus and…

I’ll miss Fred Gywnne’s Downeaster character.

This is a true story that is scary on... well, levels, ha. I’ve obscured some details so as not to give away any too identifying information, although the details are part of what makes the story.

Yep yep!  I have several stories about my childhood self and my great-great-great aunt that are like this.  Once when I was three, I was climbing from an embroidered footstool to the bed to the footstool to the floor (easily amused even then).  My grandmother asked me what I was doing, and I said, “I got this when we…

I just commented on another post about the time my then 2-year-old told my mother “Remember when I was your mom and you were my baby? But then I died.” My maternal grandmother died when I was barely 3, so it wasn’t like it had happened recently or anything that we’d talk about it. And no one else we knew had died at…