I’m a teacher in Florida. I’m wondering what DeSantis will do to top this. “Here’s an AR-15 that you’re required to bring to class each day, and some links to youtube videos so you can learn how to use it.”

Yeah, the cops are forfeiting their responsibility, and the politicians want the teachers to step up and fill the void. I’m supposed to walk into my classroom strapped, and take on a mass shooter? Right. I was trained and hired to teach, not to storm Normandy. Not only am I not going to attack a shooter (who will be…

She’s an admiral’s daughter.  She may have inherited a nice chunk of cash.

The pandemic is yet another example of this. Anti-vaxxers will cherry-pick data points and use sciencey-sounding words to convince others that their stance is correct. As an actual scientist, it is disturbing. But I understand it. Complex issues that require a lot of scientific research generate a LOT of data, and its…

“Even if Cavill was in this one, he couldn’t have carried the beautyweight singlehandedly”

“They also want to avoid references to “social justice” in its textbooks”

I’m surprised she actually found a tattoo parlor that would do that. First rule of tattooing is never get your boo’s name tattooed on your body. Your relationship may not last forever, but the tattoo will. (OK, yeah, there’s tattoo removal which is expensive, painful, and takes a long time; or a cover up/modification…

With comic book superheroes, once you get far enough away from the origin story of a character, it becomes an unwieldy house of cards that ends up collapsing in on itself. Multiverses, time travel, resurrections, retcons, clones/evil twins—all of this makes the origin story meaningless. I watched the Loki series and…

Yup. Mark Watney already figured out that “some mitigations might be needed for really good growth”.   Just add....fertilizer.  

stop giving the same weight to arguments made by experts with peer reviewed data, and those of individuals with anecdotal “evidence”

“she weaponized her victimhood”

It is....for men. Marriage means that men now have a chef, maid, and nanny working for them, for free. But for women, marriage means....being an unpaid chef, maid, and nanny.

Someone on academic twitter tweeted “if you’re thinking of leaving twitter not because you’re afraid of censorship, but because it will no longer censor in a partisan fashion, then you have no place ever talking about equity, diversity, and inclusion again. EDI must value diverse viewpoints.”

Joy Reid was asking the same question today. DeathSantis did the same thing Trump does at his rallies....arranges for/orders/pays for a few Black people to stand directly in front of the camera to show that he’s not racist.  It was especially egregious with DeSantis, since he had a bunch of Black children in the pic;…

Ditch TX and FL and make Puerto Rico and DC states. That way, you keep the same number of stars.

Yeah, judging from the footage, that dude f*cked around and found out.  He was acting up for the camera, basically being a troll.  Somebody needed to tell him (it should have been the flight attendant, quite frankly), and, so, yes, he got told. 

Could Rihanna have....questionable taste in men?

Of course the judge who overruled this is a Trumpist dream (Florida woman, looks like a physical mixture of Boebert and MTG, clerked for Clarence Thomas, appointed by Trump, deemed Not Qualified by the ABA) and the MAGAts are praising Jesus and Trump for the end of mask tyranny.

Yeah, the episode was bad. But Lizzo’s musical performances were great.

Shouting in the greys, but....the Cherokee Nation (located in Oklahoma, but not bound by US laws) should open up a bunch of abortion clinics on their land. They’d make bank. And if anyone understands what it’s like to have your life, body, and livelihood curtailed by a bunch of white men, it’s Native Americans.