A huge percentage of their supporters are evangelicals, whose religion is performative christianity. It’s what they know.

Ugh. I hate the trend of people marketing “their success” as a product when most of them have achieved nothing. “Buy my self-published ebook and you can be as successful as I pretend to be!”

Maybe somebody pointed out to them this could be used to justify running over abortion-clinic protesters.

I take strong exception to the author’s lumping HEB in with these “affluent,” exclusionary grocery chains.
HEB’s stores, while certainly clean, well laid out and stocked with a variety of quality merchandise, is hardly exclusive or overpriced. The HEB stores in my city frequently undercut even Wal-Mart’s prices, and…

In with a gentle correction that HEB is a “regular” grocery store but everyone loves it because it has amazing “house” brands. Central Market is the “fancy” version of HEB where you spend $300 but can still go through the express lane.

organic free-range-coddled-by-a-human eggs and grass-fed-brushed-a-hundred-times-a-night beef

Or Yonkers. Sure, we have some nicer sections but most of Yonkers is virtually indistinguishable from the Bronx. 

While I agree with absolutely *everything* you say in this post, I’ll be honest, I got most excited when I initially misread that you’re only a few years away *from* making a dinosaur....

I am that somewhat upper middle class, white woman, Republicans would love to see have many, many white babies. But I’m not. I’m almost 40, married and choosing to not have children. Between more requirements for parents, and lack of support, all while working a demanding full time job, I don’t see how kids fit into…

Back in my day they used to call it "Clown College".  

A rich narcissist that’s constantly surrounded by bikini models is ok with being fat. Wow, this is truly revolutionary.

“So, you’re saying you don’t go down?” the interviewer clarified.

This fashion non-troversy is driven by millennials who are insecure about becoming olds. Wear what you want and let the youths play.

Bingo--they can do what they want with fashion, and even if they look like excess, if they’re thrifting they’re just fine.  The problems with fashion are rarely aesthetic (setting aside overly sexualized clothing and the perpetuation of gender norms--but these can both be subverted by a determined teenager), and…

Same. Been looking for an alternative for quite some time. I really only come for the more nuanced discussion in the comments and the occasional celeb news. 

To be fair that school is full of class after class of ugly, ugly children. 

This blunder occurred in April 1996.

“Why would a person whose T-shirt says Genius At Work be commenting at the AV Club, and during business hours no less?”

I know that pandemic has us acting all a little weird but you might want to book a telehealth appointment with a therapist if being a troll/George Washington apologist for 5 likes is how you’re spending your time.

Here’s an idea: Maybe you shouldn’t “revere” anyone. The Founding Fathers did some good things, but they also did some bad things. They were men, not gods, and their legacy has certainly been whitewashed. I’m not sure I agree with tearing down Washington and Lincoln’s statues, but let’s lose the hero worship, okay?