The thought has occurred to me before. We do something similar with college students at my job. If we want them to show up for anything we at the very least serve refreshments. If we really want them there, sandwiches or pizza.

But when we just take it easy and let things slide assuming it will all work out without our (collective our, all of us) direct oversight, we get a sack of shit like we have right now, bringing in an entire shitshow. All because some folks got scared and believed propaganda, and some other folks got mad that their…

Yeah, I’ve been gone for about thirty years and stopped voting absentee ten years ago when I retired from the military. Given that the KK at Clackamas Town Centre opened in 2003 (the first in the state), we’re also talking about along time ago.

Yeah, I don’t think making it easier to vote is wrong. I think that people who can’t be bothered to vote once it is made as easy as possible are wrong. I think that people who don’t vote even when it is hard are wrong, and I think that people who make it hard to vote are wrong. I don’t know why you felt the need to…

I live in Krispy Kreme territory in the South now, but I grew up in the Pacific Northwest blissfully free of their influence on my early life. When a KK finally made its way to Portland, Oregon there were lines around the block for that free doughnut on their first day. My nephew planned an entire day around camping…

Or worse, want to emigrate to the great US of A! We have enough browns already trying to get in! It was preemptive border security!

He is worse, because Mitch has been doing this for decades, and the Trump presidency would already have been a lot short (or not have happened at all) without Mitch’s fierce support. Every time a few republicans want to stop circling the wagons around Trump, Mitch bullies them back into position.. And they’re all…

I predicted that he would never become President, the American people are far to savvy to no see through his smokescreen, I said. I was wrong. Then my prediction was that he would quit within 9 months because the job really is hard no matter how many times you can fly to Mar-a-Lago to go golfing. He proved me wrong…

Re: The Broom:

Before there was the internet and direct messaging, we made mix tapes. I was not immune to obsessing over finding the perfect song for a mix tape that communicated my deep, deep teen emotions.

Neither Warren nor Sanders are my first or second choices. Warren is actually my third choice in line, Sanders isn’t even on my list. That said, when the primaries are over and a candidate is declared, I am 100% on the bandwagon with whomever that is. After the primaries, whatever I like or dislike about their…

Not really less creepy, but much more satisfying for the arrest and expulsion.

And a lot of cursing. The cursing and CAPS EMPHASIS is always the best part for me, reading these sorority e-mail blasts after the fact.

This is what it means to build a movement: Not only rejecting the don’t go too far, don’t go too fast politics that have dominated Democratic thinking for decades, but also refusing to be so committed to past reforms to the point of inaction.

It started as a farewell tour for Jane’s Addiction. But yes, in Phoenix. I saw that year’s show at the Seattle finale, as I lived there at the time. It was the closing event to an already magic fucking summer.

Not my first time, no, I seem to fade in and out of the grays on an annual basis. I read more than I post on this branch of Gawkerizmodo Media Group. But apparently I’m still a snob when it comes to my favorite decade of music and music festivals. The mis-spelling bothered me more than than the joke did (which was not…

Dubious about you attending the seminal years of a music festival you can’t spell. I went to the first one, it’s now nearly three decades later and in my mind I can still see the logo in its weird font and colors on the flyers and media.

Well, they most likely never became chickens, for starters. Maybe someone made crème brûlée or a nice custard ice cream from them.

This was my thought on this particular “nutty moment”, as well.

Since when are we calling them “dump dinners”? Does nobody still use “one-pot-meal”? I mean, both could be construed to be scatological, but dump dinner just sounds like it’s going to be actual shit.