As my friend pointed out, the real story here is how Simon & Schuster not only paid an advance for this white supremacist turd, but hired someone to help the author polish it. S&S was paying money, not just to give a platform to an odious person, but to advance a more palatable and defensible version of white…

She looks like Meghan Markle’s ex step-mom.

I don’t know shit, but I can pretend real good for that much money if it helps

Are these Hyperion Cantos references?

Thanks! I recommend The 37th Parallel as an interesting and super readable take

Ooh, what’s this documentary?

I love 2017 discourse and want to fucking die every day

Trent Franks is a prominently anti-choice member of the House Freedom Caucus who considers abortion “the greatest genocide known to mankind in the history of this planet.” He introduced the 20-week abortion ban that passed the House in October, and once argued that “the incidence of rape resulting in pregnancy are…

This must be weird for Byrne, since he was abused himself as a child: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/19/gabriel-byrne-child-sex-abuse

Don’t hold out hope that this raises the odds of impeachment. As noted by Peter Beinart in The Atlantic, Republican support for Trump has remained pretty high, so Congress won’t impeach Trump until the political will to do so is there. That won’t happen without a Democratic majority. So it’s not even close to finished.

I thought it was “queynte”?

Someone needs to give Obsidian another spinoff.

Why is New Vegas so damn good and Fallout 4 so damn bad

There’s a difference between being dogmatic about one’s opinions and investing one’s self-worth into them, and simply having an opinion. I might think that professional wrestling is uninteresting or not worth seeking out, but also be open to changing my mind. That seems fine, whereas going to the mat for my view in…

Replace “apoplectic” with “apodeictic” and you got a stew going

When will people have enough of Taylor Swift?

I’m very grateful that my girlfriend introduced me to Fiona so we can share together in everything she does. Fiona is a joy and a treasure. THAT PHOTOBOMB

Jenny Slate is Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

It beggars belief that a woman responsible for making it harder to be disabled in a public school sees fit to participate in an anti-bullying initiative.

How does the DNC keep losing elections? Truly, it is a mystery.