When Pompeii was first unearthed almost 300 years ago (research and excavation are still going on) the biggest shock was how much had been been preserved, frozen in time, by the volcanic ash from the first century AD. However, it was also astonishing how much doodling and graffiti there was everywhere. It was a…

SPEAK ON IT!!!

Wait what? The Alt-Right loves Taylor Swift?

LOL. I’m going on vacation for a week. Thought I’d drop that and see what I have waiting for me when I get back..

Oh, you borelords with your “correlation does not imply causation” and your “let’s look at the underlying trends before concluding that this high-profile event had a material impact!” SO BORING.

“Someone else is trying to be a White Savior?!?!?!”

Or at least try and devote energy to getting Kanye to do the same. The empowerment-through-nudity schtick starts looking thin when your husband cozies up to the groper-in-chief.

Kim’s got zero room for mocking how anyone performs politics as long as she’s married to Kanye.

Kim is big mad. She really thought she had ended Taylor. In the words of one of our most legendary cultural icons:

Oh, holy shit. We’ve been watching Truaxe’s bipolar swings unfold on Insta for a while now, but this is very bad. We’re getting into psychosis here. All that weird name dropping, the idea of a massive criminal conspiracy - those are grandiose delusions. This can get into dangerous territory (like, legit life-and-limb…

Kim needs to shut up and sit down!!!

“I am so proud of Taylor”, says Kim, snidely, while her husband heads to the White House to fangirl over Trump and continue to make them both look preeeety bad. Also seemingly snide is the use of the word “maneuvering” and the implication it gives. Tending to be used in situations that are considered manipulative, and…

God I hate Trump, on top of everything else his festering boil of a being inflicts on our country, he dresses like such a god damn slob.

It wasn’t an official one but an ethics watchdog had just begun digging into a bunch of private plane flights she was given with business people in her home state IIRC

I don’t think he listens to music, but I think he considers Fox News in the background to be good ambiance.

Nikki Haley just resigned as ambassador to the UN. Guessing she feared that little ethics investigation could turn something up.

My friend recently used “we’re procuring a baby” - I rather liked it, because it shows that it can a conscious decision/effort to conceive, could apply to giving birth, adopting, using a surrogate etc, and also refers to the sudden and immediate extra costs associated with child rearing. 

No, you see, “we’re pregnant!” because Dad has to rub mom’s feet and get her ice cream and put up with the pregnancy hormones, they’re putting in equal work! har har har

If “they” are pregnant (let this phrase diiiiie), that’s going to be one very bland child.

fwiw - A work can be both of the following...
1. well constructed and moving within its framework
2. morally fraught or ‘problematic’ b/c of its implicit acceptance of an oppressive colonial context

These things are not mutually exclusive. A classically liberal education isn’t worth its salt if it hasn’t taught you how…