From what I understand when they develop the government budget everyone has to agree on it? Or something? SOMEONE PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I’M WRONG I’M JUST A BABY I DON’T KNOW HOW TO GOVERNMENT.

Sub question, WHY DO YOU GUYS ALWAYS THREATEN TO SHUT DOWN YOUR GOVT ok thanks in advance

Hey guys serious question: explain to your friendly local Canada dweller why this might cause a govt shutdown? Like I literally don't understand who and why?

Sure, but also Fink’s Pulitzer-winning book is the history that will be remembered. It’s erasure, and if you already feel like your town and culture is being erased, I get it, especially from a writer’s perspective (and in the context of this piece). To quote Hamilton, “Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?” This…

I hear your anger at the fact that Sheri Fink is so professionally connected that it’s her voice that defines (and it appears inaccurately in some ways—- I haven’t read it) the Katrina tragedy for a large audience. Her ability to leverage her original article has garnered high honors, but you can’t exactly blame her…

The weekend Katrina hit, I saw Marcia Ball perform Randy Newman’s Louisiana 1927 in suburban Chicago. At that point, nobody knew how bad the damage was going to be. Here are some of the lyrics...

I wonder about this all the time. Particularly about the Latino voting base that’s gonna make that shit blue far faster than the outgrowth of Austin-based liberalism. Is Catholicism going to evolve along with Cool Pope and South American progressive politics? Or will the Republican party actually start making inroads…

“The Republican leadership has already taken to refusing him basic procedural courtesies in the Senate, which literally everyone gets.”

Rand Paul always reminds me of that ancient joke: What do you call the guy who graduates last in the med school class?

and somehow refraining from dressing it up in dungarees and sending it off to kindergarten

Doooooo it, Republicans

Which is why I think calling him stupid is being generous. Because I think calling him stupid implies that he is not a duplicitous, pandering shitheel who knows the science perfectly well but is distorting it for political purposes.

When I read that 28% of Americans no support banning at least some books (primarily the Koran) all I could think of was “Welcome to Gilead.” This is how it starts.

Right?? Says the guy with A FUCKING MEDICAL DEGREE WHO ROUTINELY GETS SCIENCE WRONG FOR THE SAKE OF PANDERING TO HIS MOUTH-BREATHING CONSTITUENTS.

Ted Cruz is once again breathtaking in his complete and utter self-serving attitude. I honestly don’t think he gives one tiny little shit about anything other than himself, his ideology, and his cynical belief that he can vault himself into higher levels of power through bullying and ignoring all established political…

Again, there is a difference between the word “human” meaning “of human origin” and “a human” meaning an independent person.

how is babby formed? how girl get pragnent?

Instead of shutting down the government, which won’t work, maybe they should just go to the source of the problem and shut down every woman’s credit cards and bank accounts. Then they can put us in red robes and give us to men who will make better decisions for us than we silly walking wombs can. Any lady who revolts…

I hope they do it. It would hand the Democrats the White House in 2016.

uh, yeah, organs = tissue