That is not at all what I said.

I would have more sympathy for the viewpoint that the “student” (she’s actually an alumna now) in question was looking for intellectually challenging books if the other Common Read books were actual Man Booker prize winners. But they’re not. We’re talking about stuff like Ready Player One here. The singling-out of…

asdkfjdk my GOD woman, get your head out of your ass. Sarah, you write shitty teen romance YA, you’re not out here writing the next Booker Prize novel. Of course a college junior, who is presumably in her twenties and you know, at university to challenge herself academically, wants to read something with more…

I know that Slot isn’t Splinter, but aren’t these hearings the kind of thing you would have live blogged once upon a time? I get the sense that Slot’s footprint has been getting smaller since the loss of Splinter (and the real version of Deadspin). Am I imagining that?

At about 3 weeks pregnant (I always knew very early), I had horrendous abdominal pain. I couldn’t even stand. I was in bed, sweating, and couldn’t move. When I was sent to a (Catholic) hospital, the nurse who did my intake asked me basic questions: name, age, previous pregnancies, religion... when I mentioned I’m…

The Brits have an expression for that: mutton dressed as lamb.

The most disturbing take away from this article is that Jr was heckled by people who don’t think the Trumps are bad enough. WTF

That all of these think tank weenies couldn’t use Trump like a puppet like they wanted to. They’ve been exposed as fools and they are people who care a lot about their image as “adults in the room.”

Corporate media and there ilk nearly always consistently attack Warren from the right wing perspective too. “MSM” is not left wing unless you consider the low bar of being less racist/sexist/homophobic than Fox News (which I would also argue is also MSM).

America can develop, in 18 months time, a war machine to stop the Nazis. JFK says “hey, let’s go to the fucking moon” and 9 years later it happens.  But somehow the idea that all our citizens should be able to go to the doctor or college is an impossibility that is totally crazy to even suggest. The only thing that…

Fuuuuuuuuuuuck Mayor Pete. His comments about her in this article make fire shoot out of my eyes.

She honestly comes off like a “happy warrior” to me. Anyone distilling her down to “angry” is either being disingenous, or they’ve never actually paid attention to one of her rallies. She is VERY hopeful about the things we can accomplish as a nation if we dream big.

I spent the morning sitting in an ER waiting room (fortunately everything’s fine now), and there was a TV playing CNBC right above me. Everybody kept going back to Warren and (to a lesser extent) Sanders and the “War on Wealth.”

Hey now! Biden has promised not only to fight Trump in the parking lot, but also not to get bogged down with any of your fancy-schmancy “plans” for the aftermath, thank you very much.

I’m not sure what he’s hoping to accomplish other than giving us all a laugh as he becomes a punching bag for Warren and Sanders. His base of support, as near as I can tell, is like a dozen finance bros, some K-Street lobbyists, and Howard Schultz. His platform of “let’s not tax the rich” is the exact opposite of what…

Warren’s slogan: “Dream Big, Fight Hard”

It’s the same ridiculous tone policing that white men have been doing for eons. And note that Bernie Sanders literally yells (which I’m absolutely fine with btw) and he is rarely taken to task for it. Warren is even tempered in comparison, but that doesn’t stop the tone policing.

Dildos also make people happy.

He can’t be a dildo, a dildo has a job!