So in unrelated news people have now started to notice that Ann Coulter’s BFF Bill Maher is bad. I guess prior to now there was no evidence that mighthave led people to that conclusion.

Love watching “liberals’” newfound love for surveillance agencies. Reminds me of the deep Democratic support for the Patriot Act!

Yee-up. This, exactly.

Very glad we have sunk one of them. (Wish it had been Sessions, but wishes/horses/etc.)

Yeah. I think we’ve all read a lot of essays about that lately, it’s certainly what I had topmost in mind. I think you could also make the argument about urban Germany prior to World War II, which had been highly cosmopolitan. Or Haijin-era China. Or really, the entire medieval period of Europe.

Huh. I was under the impression that pastoralist populations in East Africa had a high percentage of lactase persistence, but Google is telling me that the Maasai tend not to be lactase persistent. I don’t actually know much about this.

Well, sure, but they’re technical Aryans, so of course they can drink milk.

No, it’s just that I’m not wholly ignorant of history. You must never have met anyone like that before.

History is littered with stories of people who want to regress or hold back progress. It’s impossible.

Absolutely. I’m not talking about moving anything around, just changing where I’m allocating my buying for the foreseeable future.

This looks nothing at all like my gay porn for the record.

Yeah. I’m lowering my exposure to the U.S. stock market. It’s been a great run recently, I don’t want to test my luck.

Who knew that there were accomplishments more difficult than hosting reality TV shows.

Is this cookie attempting to imply that it’s possible for a woman to have sex . . . with a man?!

I must say, she still manages to be more likable than him.

The unsubtle triumphalism undergirding your comment seems misplaced, as they are suddenly now in the position to drag the rest of us down with them.

Yeah? And multilateral trade agreements aren’t going to help them either. They’re fucked either way.

What. The. Fuck.

I just hope to encourage the people who are on my side to think a little more rationally than this. Getting invested in the idea that some minor celebrity magically has the power to sway elections on his own is just another excuse not to do any work to try to fix the situation the country is in.

So you specifically bring up Appalachia in order to claim that the people there don’t have any legitimate basis for feeling insecure?