Oh, Noem’s running all right:  she’s already held at least one fundraiser in Iowa.  In the end, of course, it all depends on whether Trump will back her or not...

Yes!  At first glance, I thought he was  a game show host!

but I’m not above admitting that Mr Tumnus was concerningly hot to 19-year-old me.

Those are the single most adorable trucks I have ever seen.

Seems like a bit of an ethical / conflict of interest issue,

I think it was Macron that wouldn’t let him do it?

Yep. A variation on this is, “Well, young people should just take up trades! They can learn to weld, or do appliance repair, or plumbing!” Although how welders and repairpeople and plumbers are going to make a good living when everyone is a welder, or a repairperson or a plumber is never addressed.

Why didn’t she just name the character “Mary Sue” and have done with it?

let alone Romney, survive primaries in the new Republican party besides weird little exceptions to the rule like Utah or Alaska or Maine.

Trump wants to form a 3rd party. Okay, what exactly are it’s policies? What are it’s candidates running on?

A few ideas:

it just happens to be the opposite opinion of the people bemoaned above.

I agree: readers read. They can criticize and proselytize and judge the hell out of other people’s tastes, but what they do most of all is read. And of course, reading and book ownership (or non-book ownership) are used to position ourselves vis-à-vis other people, to send messages about how special and singular we…

Or better yet, I can Dumas a racist,

That’s always the problem with people who play at revolution: they can’t grasp that a revolution—the one they think they want, a full-on 1789 humdinger—can’t be controlled. And the failure to control ends with your death.

that what matters is not to be truly right, what matters is to win.

Jordan Peterson has singlehandedly ruined this look for me forever.

“I take care of myself and treat my body like a sacred temple.” He told me, “We are extremely healthy, so that probably influences our first-hand experience,” Bowditch said. “The rest of the world... that is maybe not a value of theirs.”

Miya Ponsetto is phenotypically white, which means she can be mixed with every united color of Benetton but at the end of the day, she still benefits from white privilege. 

Does Wisconsin have those religious “freedom” laws that allow pharmacists to refuse to fill prescriptions they don’t like? If they do, will this guy keep his job because Jebus?