Except you get to keep your all your income, you get to protect the environment like you want, you get to keep as many immigrants as you choose, and you have the 8th largest economy in the world, ample crop space, and ready access to shipping lanes.

This is what kills me. California taxes are being spent in backwards red states on people who think I should go back to Mexico (3rd generation Californian) or that I am abusing welfare or that my AfAm husband should die in the street like a dog at the hands of some cop. But whose tax dollars are supporting their…

Tough shit. I’m tired of being Captain Save-a-Ho to the rest of the knuckle-dragging mouth-breathing country. It’s not MY job to drag you kicking and screaming into the 20th century.

It may not be impossible, but it would be very stupid.

Sarah Kendzior wrote something similar a few months ago. It hasn’t gotten any easier to read or relevant with time...

Yeah, it’s like Polanski films. I am sure, as a film, the Pianist was well deserving of an Oscar, but I’m never going to find out, because all I could think about while I watched it is how the man who made it raped a young girl, got away with it, and doesn’t give a shit.