Check the guy in the back, the one with the green bandanna over his face. He’s raising something in his right hand that doesn’t look like reins to me. It’s too long and it’s lifted over his right shoulder in perfect “let me hit you with this” style.  The guy in the front his holding the reins in both of his hands, as…

Which is really too bad, because we now lack a good term with which to make fun of ourselves that doesn’t have other more politically-weighted overtones.

Fun fact (though I guess that varies by your definition of fun): my first hearing of “politically correct” in the wild came in 1988 (I am old) when a friend was making fun of a person who’d been in the Peace Corps in Central America and knew Spanish and couldn’t let a Spanish term go by without giving it the correct…

Thank you for telling your story.  I’m so glad you got the help you needed.

Can’t Olivia Munn just shut up and be pregnant?  She’s always complaining about something.  I think she thinks people spend a lot more time contemplating her than they actually do.  She would probably have more fans if she stopped whining.

I’ve read her stuff before.  She is a pretty good writer.

Oh, damn. Sorry. That AND it’s hot and humid and has lots of bugs and snakes. Syracuse is really too cold in the winter. There’s cold, and then there’s ohmygodiwillneverbewarmagain cold. If you want to be cold, Connecticut is warmer than Syracuse, and there are some nice little towns that are not at all like Greenwich…

Fun fact: you know how Republicans are always going on about voter fraud? They know what they’re talking about! The son of the newly elected Republican governor of Virginia, who is not old enough to vote, attempted to vote TWICE. He was turned away both times. Of course, since he’s not black, he didn’t get arrested…

I had a boss once who could not give a direct action sentence. On anything. He spoke in generalities. There were people who thought he was a genius. I thought he was an idiot who could fool some of the people some of the time. He thought making up impossible deadlines was the way to get people to meet the deadlines.…

Come join the Cassandra Club over here. We don’t meet, because it’s too depressing, but members can join any time.

Yikes.  The faux Diana really needs to hike that dress up to where the real Diana wore it.

No, sorry. If it makes you happy, go for it, but I will always think you don’t read and keep books just for show. The only exception to this rule is if you have a collection of 50 Penguin editions of (for example) P.G. Wodehouse, and they’re all orange, but that’s coincidental color coding, and not color coding for…

Including me?  ESPECIALLY me.  You really don’t know me very well, do you?

CIA

Unrelated to anything in the article: those are some ugly glasses.

Before I got to Virginia, I very firmly believed (having been taught this from elementary school onward in New England) that the Civil War ended in 1865. Imagine my shock when I got here. I’d say this is the weirdest fucking place in the world except I haven’t been to Mississippi. I know someone from there though, and…

Call it whatever you want, I’m still not eating it.  Someone who likes it can have my share.

I recently had a bottle of whiskey sent to a friend in upstate NY - I live outside of NY. By upstate I mean near Albany (upstate’s pretty big...). I did it through a liquor store in NY, sort of near Albany, that had a web presence. They had some precautions, such as the person it was for had to be present to take…

Virginia has such a history of electing assholes for governor. There was Macaca Allen, Bob McDonnell (is he out of jail? did he go to jail? how about his wife?), Northam’s policies were pretty good, but not even he knows if that was a picture of him in blackface in his medical school yearbook... and that’s just since…

Vomit indeed.  If they would all disappear off the face of the earth I don’t think they’d be missed.