The decision was made by the “old-school” Republicans - always posing as “civil” when they were evil, bloody-handed MFers - when they put Shrub in as POTUS on a party-fixed, 5-4 vote.

I think it’s even worse than that. The way these stories get written, it’s almost like the media just accepts that voter suppression is just another perfectly valid tactic a party can use to win an election.

So rather than trying to deny it happens (impossible) voter suppression instead gets reframed as something like:…

One of the great frustrations of these things is that the political reporters either toss it off as “something that happens in elections” or frame it in such a way that the fact that it’s an attempt to suppress people of color’s votes isn’t a provable fact but merely an “accusation” or a “some people say” type story…

Democratic rule of thumb: in the absence of any other info, vote for the person who is defending your right to fucking vote.

Gritty the socialist meme is the only thing giving me life right now.

Especially appropriate now that we’ve got the annual scary story thread going as well.

Wooohoooo!!! I have so many of these I don’t know where to start. This will be an ongoing project over the weekend. OK I’ll start with a pretty tame one, but that was just insanely weird.

When I was in graduate school there was a big rodeo in a nearby town, and a casual acquaintance (a friend of an ex-boyfriend, of all things) who lived there invited me to go with him. I’m not sure why I agreed to go, as I wasn’t interested in rodeos or in him, but for some reason I packed my overnight bag and went. …

Oh man, I forgot about the time I had to run away from the cops in an unfamiliar town dressed up as Velma from Scooby Doo. I really miss college.

Dumb question: Was this an “under water” feature or just a party at an aquarium (weird)? The photo booth + props sounds kinda cool. And when you wrote “shuttles” I read “Turtles” (cause, you know aquarium theme). Yes, I wanted to see you ride victoriously away on turtles :D

Spring/Summer, 1986. I am a junior. My best friends parents are out of town. We schedule a party, the word spreads. We have a band scheduled (the core members of this band would later on become actual recording artists - you have heard of them). We had to prepare “Jen’s” house.

It was one of many insane wild weekends I had, so I only remember bullet points.

I was 17 when I went steady with someone for the first time. I had platonic boyfriends and would go out on dates with people, but he was the first one I was into with any seriousness. I went to a party with him, drank too much tequila on an empty stomach, and got sick for the first time from drinking. Luckily, I made…

The last time I drank tequila was in 1996. My BFF/roommate and I went to a party at a friend’s apartment. BFF was going to tell a boy she was in love with him, not knowing that he had chosen that occasion to announce his super-gayness. Whoops!

I wish I could give you another star just for that last sentence, you beautiful thing, you. So if I get any stars for this comment, consider them yours!

I used to argue that voting Republican was, at best, a morally neutral act. I now firmly believe that voting for anyone currently associated with the Republican Party, no matter how “moderate” they seem, is an actively immoral act.  

It’s a dangerous time to be a young man, huh?

The Republican White House and Republican controlled House and Senate support this. Everyone going to the polls next month who votes for Republican candidates is voting to let this continue. People may say “I don’t support separating children from their families” but if they don’t vote for the only party that will put…

Where/when in this country do we ever allow someone under the age of 18 to sign a legal and binding contract??  Much less a five year old.  This is beyond ridiculous.

Who the hell decided that putting him on the air would be a good idea???