Since I’m in the field of social work, we talk about this in a different way as well. We have to talk about trauma and our own potential to be traumatized vicariously and thinking about how to manage that as a central aspect of the education. It’s a built in part of the whole education so maybe this seems just strange…

I liked this article too and your comment.

Is your name a reference to Peep Show? Because I love your invocation of Nelly Bly, which is really appropos and even more I’d love it if your name was a Peep Show reference.

True and she was a worker, not a tourist or a visitor. The other book I liked was a graphic novel called Pyongyang by a French Canadian writer named Guy Delisle who went over there to do some illustrating. I think you get more from people who have to spend time there working and not on a tour.

I read this book. I thought few books captured how censored and boxed in foreign workers are in North Korea in terms of witnessing everyday life. They try to see life through these tiny cracks; she even talks about the malaise. I think she may have been a lot more accurate than most foreign writers over there— I think…

I think you should write a post just about I heart Huckabees

And that’s one of many good reasons you need affirmative action—to counterbalance the enormous advantage that legacy candidates have.

Ok man, night!

I do know the context in which I’m drinking my coffee. It’s too late to be drinking caffeine. Have a good night, Dinosaur. Don’t pull a muscle trying to involve me in an argument I’m not interested in having.

I don’t find your argument worth refuting. I mean, I have a ice coffee waiting for me and a bunch of work to do and I don’t have time to spend arguing with someone whose points are so decontextualized that they don’t mean anything.

Oh come on, the tact you are taking is so patently ridiculous that it even precludes any realistic assessment of his good and bad policies. I have my own misgivings about Obama’s administration but acting like he’s a cartoon villain is a ridiculously hyperbolic view of him and one that doesn’t take into account the…

“villainy so broad you’d think it was lifted from a cartoon”

I’ll add that I think Obama has had to deal with an epic amount of bs from the rabid right who uses overt racism as a tool and weapon against him.

True though I will say that Chelsea was called a pig by Rush Limbaugh when she was 13 and roundly mocked while people called the Clintons murderers and all sorts of horrible shit. I’m not even a huge Hillary fan but I think a lot of hate hurled her way is because of the really horrible stuff they said about her in the…

Good point. We need one of those Venn Diagrams for the types of guys who date Luann and Sonja.

Probably wealthy.

You want to meet a man who is into both Sonja AND Luanne. I wonder what he’s like?

Maniacal giggle is right. I mean, I guess she’s happy and good for her but Jesus, I find it disconcerting every time she talks about Tom (I think that’s his name). She sounds like she’s high every time and not on love, but drugs.

Secret to success: Make sure dad is a barely sentient rightwing cheeto willing to give you a highly paid and visible job.

When I was in college, there was a guy who interviewed for the house where we lived that was named TOPHER. Ugh, he had long hair and talked endlessly how he loved to sail on his dad’s boat. It’s hard to convey how douchey it sounded. Maybe I was overly cynical but goddamnit Topher. I’m not a fan of Tophers. Your name…