He doesn’t need to recover from it. I’d be totally fine with that and believe my moral compass would still be intact.

Great writing.

Americans don’t feel guilt about a goddamn thing.

You can’t remake the electoral map overnight

SERIAL was Ebola-infected puke. Also true of Radiolab. Only Night Vale Presents makes great podcasts.

The body, having literally birthed a child, needs time to bounce back. Wong is upfront about things like having a nanny and says her ability to maintain a work-life balance is because of this—just one fact of life she wishes more famous mothers were frank about. “It’s unfair to the hard-core stay-at-home moms to…

Fucking this. I’m having a different flavor of not-so-great Mother’s Day—the kind where you are a mother who feels unappreciated—and it feels like fucking Happy Mother’s Day is EVERYWHERE. Can’t imagine what it would feel like to be grieving the loss of a mother at this time. So—if you’re having a not-so-great…

I live in a small town in West Virginia that is about a 5 hour drive from Parkersburg in the Eastern Panhandle. We have successfully past many non-discrimination ordinances here in Shepherdstown and welcome trans community members. I want to invite Jocelyn to move here and apply for jobs in our lovely town. Now that…

An open letter to Jocelyn, from someone whose been there:

There’s also the fact that it simply isn’t true. McCain has talked about this. He’s talked about how the North Vietnamese hung him up from a tree by the hands and wrists with his arms twisted behind him until he gave up the names of the commanding officers in Vietnam. If I recall the story correctly, he gave them the…

Shhhh... facts are hard for some people.

This all-encompassing paranoia explains why the NRA convention hosted a lavish booth selling gold coins hauled up from a shipwreck, which offered brochures that asked, “Why are so many people over their IRAs and 401ks into physical gold IRAs?” The only possible answer is that grandma has become truly senile—or,…

I was raised Mormon, went through that whole women’s program bs, worked at girlscouts for a summer as woke teen, left church as teen, raised my child alone and can say this proudly. I was on a camping date with a proud outdoorsman who said “I will build a fire this is how, I am an eagle scout”, he spent 20 minutes/…

Alternatively, one hopes those girls will get away from the homophobic, transphobic fundamentalist cult they were raised in as quickly as possible.

So, they were willing to stick with the BSA through decades of highly publicized sexual abuse scandals and coverups by scouting leadership, but allowing gay leaders and female scouts is a step too far? Okay.

Thank you. I’m terribly sorry you had to endure and learn from such an experience.

That story proves he was never a safe gun owner. Because that’s not a mistake you can possibly make if you are a safe gun owner. What a fucking idiot.

He’s apparently not that well-versed in safety. There’s never any reason to pull the trigger on a gun, loaded or not, unless you’re pointing it at something you’re okay putting a hole in.

I like cat-centric Sunday comics, are there any still around?

To be honest, I suspect it’s partially a coping mechanism. At a certain point the amount of bullshit you have to keep in your head to maintain an alt-right point of view—all the “fake news” and the conspiracies on top of conspiracies—becomes too much too much for even the most flexible mind to take seriously, and you…