Right. One of the problems with discussing the French Revolution is that you need to clarify, which French Revolution? Which phase? Which region? What actors?

The French and Russian Revolutions went after the nobility first, then the intellectuals, and then the disenfranchised and vulnerable.

Wasn’t there a Doctor Who episode about aliens using human children as recreational drugs? Using a Doctor Who episode as the basis of a bizarre conspiracy feels peculiarly on brand for these loons...

It is insane and silly, right up to the point that there are real world consequences. It’s all just a repackaging of ancient witchcraft scares and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and neither of those had happy endings. Granted, this time around we might not be burning women to death or throwing Jews down a well,…

Where do I apply for a job in JLo’s office, for I, too, would like to spend my days surrounded by ridiculously attractive people. And I may be a straight woman, but I find I would cook the books, set up shell companies in the Bahamas, or engage in whatever insider trading is necessary to have her smolder at me in…

Years later, my husband and I still look back on this story in wonder. The young woman was mentally ill, sure, but the damage she intended to inflict in Pittsburgh was grave; fortunately for everyone concerned, she weren’t none too bright and tripped over her own cunning plan.

Racism? Absolutely! But also jealousy: Meghan gets what Trump wants, to be royal. Just by existing, she now gets the social entree and automatic deference that he believes he should have.

Matt Lieberman, the son of Joe Lieberman and a man so committed to not reading the room he’s still in the race after the president of the state’s NAACP urged him to drop out following the discovery of his novel about a white man’s maybe-imaginary “slave.”

anyone who organizes books by color is not a reader

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,

Western culture also places a premium on martyrdom and suffering, which must play heavily into this kind of thinking—especially within the wellness community, with its strong links to a vaguely defined “spirituality.”

Now, now!  You know the answer is, “He’s not Bernie!”

the Democrats have plainly shown that they’re collectively unwilling to upend, regulate, and legislate all the ways that this current political shitstorm was fed into existence

Trump signs outnumber Biden probably 10-1.

I would happily hand them back to the straights.

And Satcheul? Paigelynn? wtf. It isn’t even a good fake black person name. 

Two things strike me:

they probably don’t identify as a woman

I think it’s trendy to identify as non-binary among the same kind of college women who did the “lesbian until graduation” thing back in the 1980s.  I suspect this particular woman will shed this identify soon enough...

The question really is whether we’d be opening up pandora’s box,