I learned to drive on an old VW Bus - the kind where you could either have the heat on or go up hills but not both, and shifting from 1st to 2nd took alchemy and a delicate touch that most people didn’t have and which ensured that none of my friends would ever want to drive it. I’d like to try this new Bus (ish)…

I happened on the perfect (for me anyway, YMMV) thing to do by mistake one time. Some idiot did something dumb and I had to slam on the brakes or die. I was rolling my eyes and casting aspersions on their parentage, and then I saw someone who needed to change lanes and no one was letting them. I left them a hole and…

Maybe it’s because I’m not an artiste (though I am an artist of absolutely no renown), but if I had a choice between losing my creativity and getting rid forever of the severe depression that’s stalked me since junior high, I’d get rid of the depression immediately and start making really ugly art.

“To the extent my remarks caused hurt...” How you can seem to apologize without really acknowledging that you said something horrid.

I was under the impression that Kanye was off his meds. I don’t say that in his defense. He should be taking his meds, he’s been told he needs to take his meds, his marriage broke up because he’s not taking his meds, he’s acting like a man with mental health issues who is not taking his meds.

Slightly off topic observation:  Gwyneth Paltrow should learn to stand straighter.  She’s always slumping.  That won’t do her back any favors when she’s older.  Stand up straight, Gwyneth.  Your grandmother was right.

I feel your pain.  People seem to be calling the whole of the female reproductive system “vagina” these days. It’s as though they never learned the words for labia, fallopian tubes, uterus, etc. Or even “genitals”. Confuses me, because I take them literally, and then try to figure out what they’re talking about.

These are coming from the National Strategic Stockpile... remember that? It had ventilators and masks and other urgently needed medical supplies and Jared Kushner wouldn’t let any of it out because he said “the federal stockpile is OUR stockpile, not for the states to use”, as though people didn’t exist and the intent…

McConnell’s wife is rich as Croesus and getting richer every day because as Secretary of Transportation she was able to steer overseas shipping contracts to her family’s business, Foremost Maritime Corporation.  EVERYONE in the Orange Foolius administration was a-griftin’, and don’t let anyone tell you differently.

Republicans are fighting vaccinations and masking (because they are assholes and cretins, but if they want Republicans to die that’s on them). If she wants to complain about something worthwhile the current administration is doing, then I think she’s wasting her time.  And mine for reading it, but that’s on me.

Congratulations on your sobriety!  I’m proud of you and your accomplishments.

And yet they still don’t care/realize/acknowledge/give a shit (pick one or add your own) that CRT is not taught in primary or secondary schools anywhere in the country.

Also, though they can force the woman to take the pregnancy to completion, there’s nothing that says they have to pay child support or otherwise support the woman.  As always with these fuckers, the importance of the fetus ends when it’s born.

I didn’t say I wanted him to be raped, I said I wanted him to be scared.  Women who are raped often end up with higher levels of fear, and fear of everything, not just being raped again or of men or certain men.  If he learns what it is to be afraid, perhaps he’ll learn some humanity.

Thanks.  That’s a lot higher than I would have guessed.

I don’t know.  How many?

I don’t mind the Turnpike.  I try to drive it at off hours, though it seems that no matter when I’m on it, it is Learn To Drive Day, when people who don’t know how to drive on highways take to the Turnpike to learn.  That’s why I choose the truck lanes when they’re available.  I don’t have a truck, but I’d rather…

I will cosign this. If you can drive the GSP, with its narrow lanes and turns and speeds sometimes over 200 mph (so I exaggerate a little. It’s only a little), and whoops! stop here quick and pay a toll, you can drive anywhere. I drive it sometimes between CT and VA, and it’s where you really have to pay attention...…

And if he’ll accept that, he’d probably agree to anything else.

Re swimming in underwear: There is underwear that covers more than bathing suits. There is underwear that can’t be distinguished from bathing suits, at least according to my mother, who was a tiny woman with a good figure who found a bra and panty set she thought looked like a bathing suit which she used to wear…