“I think it wiser, moreover, not to keep open the sores of war but to follow the examples of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife, to commit to oblivion the feelings engendered.” - Robert E. Lee. Lexington, VA, 5 August, 1869

There was a woman at work who decided that her puppy (less than a year old, but still over 40lbs) should be able to occupy the cabin space in an aircraft, so she got herself one of those stupid cards and the airline let her fly with this dog with no special training. And I’m like ‘you’ve never had a dog in your life…

Ugh you got every right to give him the side-eye. There are people that legit need a trained emotional support animal but the deluge of these cards has eroded any legitimacy these have. It also has a way of making some mental illnesses look less legitimate. If people are going to think the concept of an emotional…

“Salty, I normally tip very well, but this waitress was very rude to me and my dog. My dog had an accident and shit all over the floor. Then my waitress clumsily tripped over him, giving him a bruise in his side, he reacted by giving her a warning by nipping her on the ankle. She followed that up by cussing me out and…

6. Not everybody likes dogs and don’t want to sit next to them, especially in enclosed spaces.

I usually hate it when people say “THAT’S NOT THE SAME!!111!!11!”

There are also just mentally healthy people who are afraid of, or don’t like, dogs. 

Goddamn, there are SO many reasons why a restaurant would be willing (and right) to ban dogs. And I say this as a dog-lover, who has had dogs for decades, and loves my dogs very much:

There are people places and there are dog places. Please stop mixing the two up.

I fucking hate cats. Not individual cats. There have been individual cats whose company I’ve come close to enjoying. Just the idea of cats. I’m a dog guy.

We will never know for certain. Leniency might have lessened any chance at Martyrdom that might have inspired more violence and terrorism at the time. However the history we do have is still littered with race riots and murders and lynchings... so possibly we were doomed to this violent cycle as soon as the idea of…

Dogs are child substitutes that don’t grow up, don’t change, and have little of their own agency. The dog owners who hate children are deluding themselves.

She’s the dog’s mom. To be a dog’s mom, you must be a dog. The restaurant doesn’t allow dogs. She should be banned.

As someone who moved to the frozen north from the mid-south (Kentucky), I know more than a few people who genuinely try to make the argument that destroying these statues is tantamount to “destroying history.”

...a number of those people no longer speak to me, because I had the temerity to suggest, “Well, look, if it’s…

Dog owners think they ARE parents of small children.

Dog owners are worse than parents of small children, I swear.

I need a video of these Confederate monuments falling, to the soundtrack of Another One Bites the Dust. 

When I moved to North Carolina from Maryland, a Navy brat who had seen a lot of the world and yet never really encountered racism, the military being (at the time) the great equalizer, I heard my first ever use of the n-word. My high school mascot (South Stanly High School) was a Rebel. A literal confederate soldier…

From Julian Carr’s 1913 Silent Sam dedication speech:

Tearing down a monument to the self-avowed enemies of America seems a patriotic act to me.