I’m in the Chicago suburbs and I see full-sized Trump flags flapping from the back of pick-up trucks. I’ve yet to see a Confederate flag in my zip code, but there is a neighbor who flies the Gadsden flag (though this could be more because he’s a hoarder than anything political-party related).

This story is all “why I stopped flying” and also “why I don’t go to weddings.”

“Also while pretending to be a woc!"

As soon as Jez got a new deputy editor is when mine happened. Her first article. 

Yep I got banned on Jez and that's what it looks like. You think you're posting, but you're just pissing into the wind.

I have made a pointed effort to buy used books from Half Price Books, and music from this cool local place. Less money for Amazon, supporting local businesses, and not shipping crap/using new materials.

You... have a scar over one eye, don't you?

So, ok yes I agree artists should be paid for their work. Even the estates of dead ones. But if a bar in Jimfuck, Iowa is playing some surreptitiously obtained pop, how would anyone know? 

I don't remember anything from before this. This *gestures broadly* has been going on for one thousand years.

*screaming forever*

If you were from Chicago, you’d just go HEY MA. (But that really brutal “aaa” sound, like a Ditka or a Belushi).

I always had a soft spot for Perot. I think Dana Carvey helped.

Hey, you’re right he does.

mmmmm aspirations

Oh ship, I think I like caftans now.

The only time it bothers me is with regards to alcoholic beverages. People say something is sweet (like a wine) and it tastes like battery acid to me. My taste buds are just wack.

I tried questioning my mother's belief in god/the afterlife at grandma's wake, but I think all i did was confuse her.

Can I get an un-invitation from my family's outside gatherings, holidays, weddings, funerals, and baby showers too?

“I’ve looked at it very seriously. Obummer did it.”

Don’t you love when you can guess the author just by the headline? :)