Hell, crossing the border isn’t even a misdemeanor. It’s a civil violation that may be prosecuted criminally. Before 2005, such criminal prosecutions were extremely rare unless there were aggravating circumstances. Good ol’ W changed all that so that we could all be safe from those scary, scary brown people. Never…

“There’s paperwork for the Trail of Tears. We know what happened. That doesn’t make it okay, but at least we know. It’s history we can point at, as opposed to a black hole.”

I’m guessing that there are a lot of people that haven’t had the fun of trying to get a certified copy of the birth certificate that they need to get their official state-issued identification card because they need the official state-issued identification card in order to get the certified copy of the birth…

“How many people do you know that get arrested and are allowed to take their toddler to jail with them?”

“The question about why do 40 and 50-somethings share nude photos of each other like teenagers will go unanswered”

Guy cant even do dick pics properly

Stirring it might also have been a thought, but maybe that’s just for the advanced chef.

Dammit, I wanted to say that.

No matter how good your intentions or how meticulous your research notes, sooner or later that beautiful piece of prose you’re so proud of turns out to be from an article you didn’t remember reading a year before you started the project you used it in.

Well, ya know, if you see something, say something. 

Well, if you want to talk about the Dunning-Kruger effect, get a mirror.

Overland Park is a suburb of Kansas City, an area where you can literally walk across the street to go from one state to another. And unlike some metropolitan areas, very few of the suburbs in the area have any sort of ‘identity’ outside of this area itself. I haven’t lived in Kansas City itself since 1965 - I haven’t…

But there’s a decided difference between saying “blackface wasn’t something we did around here” and “there were/are no racists where I grew up.”

Well, of COURSE he needs a specialty toilet. It’s American Standard model 2315.228.020.

Somehow, I can’t quite picture Barr rising to the level of a Leon Jaworski, though. I doubt he’s going to do a damn thing to bring Trump down. At best, he’s gonna just try to stay out of the way so that his suit doesn’t get dirty when the shit really starts flying. 

Except oops, no, it isn’t a real thing. It’s entirely up to the committee chair whether to allow additional time - and Nadler is the committee chair. If he wants to ask questions for hours on end, all he has to do is give himself permission to do so. 

I’m not sure whether the problem is the filibuster, or whether it’s that the filibuster isn’t the filibuster any more.

Meh, it’s just a leftover from the founding of the colony, when the governors were appointed by the Crown. Give ‘em a few more decades and they might get around to changing that. Or, what with it being South Carolina, they might not. I mean, they still haven’t quite adjusted to the fact that there’s more than one…

“The quickest way to get us off fossil fuels” is somehow a teensy bit less compelling to me than that idea that even if an accident doesn’t turn the entire Eastern Seaboard into a glow-in-the-dark model, we haven’t come up with a better way to deal with the waste product that hauling it across the entire country to…

I’d watch that.