Exactly; he’s (LePage) what we don’t need. I was being sarcastic when I said he was ‘awesome’ ;)

And exactly; nobody goes to bat for Maine and Mainers harder than Stephen King. He still lives in the state and pays his taxes here, even if LePage blatantly lied and said otherwise. King has paid for public libraries and…

Wow, it’d be really super-cool if ultra-conservative religious folk could stop being xenophobic nightmares.

And let’s not even get started on flora.

We called it the “charismatic megafauna” effect: people care about polar bears, but not mites.

That would be perfect. They can’t just trash the history of it because there are so many cool elements to the story. Polish prisoners being released from a gulag in Siberia so they can help the Soviets fight the Germans. Them saying “no thank you” and traveling through the Middle East, where they found the baby bear…

Ironically, Franzen does make an interesting point - though it’s not the one he probably intended. I work in conservation biology and have had a fair bit of contact with people working in the field, and one of the biggest unspoken about problems in the field is the disproportionate effect some parochial interests have…

As always, SHUT THE FUCK UP JONATHAN FRANZEN

‘Oh, God!’ And they’ll say, ‘If they think you’re big I must be so fat to them.’

LePage is embarrassing to me as a Mainer, but at least heroes like Joanne Twomey have been fighting him as much as possible at the local level.

Hot damn, Declaration. Nice work.

The original British Pooh wore no clothes at all.

Just to provide a little context of why a mayor would be so pissed about getting rid of the income tax: for LePage to do this (and seem anti-tax), he had to get rid of Maine’s revenue sharing, in which the state gives all municipalities cash to help subsidize the costs of schools, infrastructure, etc. However, by…

Speaking as someone who ugly cried because of overwhelming emotions at the NYPL when I went into the Winnie the Pooh room and saw Christopher Robin’s actual dolls, this idea can die in a fire. Is nothing sacred? And I imagine instead of a lovely, thoughtful adaptation it will be full of weird already dated pop culture…

Goddammit, no.

Thank you for ruining my childhood, Disney.

Wow how egalitarian of you to promote Robin "I know you want it" Thicke. Awesome.

I’m genuinely amazed that he avoided the words “well spoken” in describing her. I’m also amazed that he didn’t name two white players as goals for her to be kept by.

Right, "Age," and also "I cheated on her, sooo"