There are three types of people in this world: Dog people, cat people, and sensible people who see the value in both.

I got my cat from a shelter. He is a good kitty.

Dave Davies (of Fresh Air): “Bannon, you know - he looks a little unkempt. He might have a little growth of beard. He doesn’t have a tie. His hair isn’t exactly combed. I mean, you know, if one were being unkind, you might say he looks like somebody ready to mix it up. You spent time with him. Is this a cultivated…

I think they went especially hard on Michelle because she is unnervingly smart (unnerving to them). I’ve heard a few times in the Chicago legal community from people who know them that while Barack is a visionary, Michelle is smarter. Obviously this is like saying “between these two diamonds, one is slightly shinier”…

I’d sit here trying to come up with reasons for their contradictory attitudes about this but I’m afraid I’d ... black out.

saw something great the other day. along the lines of....

Support our troops, amirite?

“Jesus loves you... But he thinks you’re being an ass.”

Glad he or she’s for saving masses of cells the size of sesame seeds with no cognition or heartbeat (just electrical impulses). It’s good to stand by your convictions even when they make no fucking sense - when the legislation they are in favor of increases abortion rates. Also good to see the sanctity of life is…

I’d go with: “If you’re seeking to embrace Christ, stop being such a Godforsaken cunt.”

I found this fascinating. I think the part where he talks about his experience with her on a human, interpersonal level has upset some people. And I understand why - there should be no effort to “exonerate” her, or to revise history for us to view her perjury as non-criminal, or to view her taking 6 decades to come…

As a historian, I just think that it’s important to keep context in mind at all times, and I think that we can both acknowledge how horrible this woman is (in another post about this I called for her to be hunted down by the people who catch old Nazis so they can be brought to court) and use the fact that she is, in…

I find it very helpful to describe people like this, her wretched cousin, her disgusting husband, the hideous people who acquitted them, and their community as “nice” or “lovely” because it puts to rest the lie that only the most outrageous and obnoxious people can be racists. So many people love to say, “John’s a…

Emmett Till and my dad were contemporaries at Roberts Temple COGIC on 40th and State — the same church where Till’s funeral was held. Dad was only two years older than Emmett. That half of my family, like the Tills, came from Mississippi by way of Chicago (though my family had come to Chicago a generation earlier than…

I actually think it was a good thing. Because so many people, especially white people, build up racists as this inhuman “other” in their heads to the point that they themselves cannot be a racist because they’re not some utter monstrosity that few people could ever accomplish being.

Dear 45,

Hat pins!!

Last night I walked down an extra long mega staircase in the local art gallery, totally wasted, on heels, holding my purse in one hand and a full glass of beer in the other. ME FOR PRESIDENT. BOW DOWN TO ME, STAIR MINIONS.

A man who is afraid of stairs and only eats fast food because everything else supposedly has germs is the fucking POTUS. I’m pretty sure that even FDR, who was in an actual wheelchair, was less frail than this piece of shit.