But upstate NY is kind of big. Albany is just so “meh.” If someone told you me about a self help group but then said it’s in Albany I’d be like “pass!”

The weirdest thing to me about this is that it’s based out of Albany, NY.

I’m not saying that he got caught fucking his neighbor’s wife but I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that he got caught fucking his neighbor’s wife.

I dealt with years of leaves / clippings / other people’s dog turds on my lawn without breaking anyone’s ribs. I’m liberal as well, so there’s something else to this story.

Oh my god! This is the Massacre at Bowling Green that Kellyanne Conwoman was talking about! She can see the future!

The first thing I said when I heard this story was literally, “Was he mowing his lawn diagonally or something?” and now I see that he was, in fact, mowing his lawn. So... was he?

Yeah, I know that politics aren’t unlikely, but it would be an interesting twist if this whole thing was over some “you built your new fence 2 inches onto my property and won’t re-do it” kind of neighbor drama.

I love that they’re pinning it on the neighbor being a liberal and disagreeing with Rand Paul’s views, when it could just as easily have been that Rand Paul is one of those assholes who blows leaves onto your lawn.

Must be nice having that evil State funded healthcare you hate so much there to treat you for free at a time like this eh Rand.

Jesus. This is a crazy time that the first thing we suspect in a neighbor altercation is disagreement over politics. I prefer a simpler time, when we would assume this assault was over Paul’s mowing pattern and untidy azaleas.

I read it religiously (pun totally intended) as a teen, and have read parts of it as an adult because, despite the baggage, the Bible was a big part of my upbringing and parts of it do still comfort me. The Psalms and the Proverbs are beautiful literature. On the other extreme, if God was Job’s boss, we’d all be…

A wise woman once said: “God sat out the Holocaust. What makes you think he’s going to buy you a Lexus?” The transformation of the biblical message of good works into the modern notion of a “personal Jesus” and a God focused on individual wants and needs was a triumph of salesmanship, and little else.

I grew up in a county in Alabama which had/has the most churches per capital in the state. I was a fundamentalist evangelical Christian as a teen, surely a tedious bore even to my religious classmates, and a general pain in the ass to everyone around me. I policed the actions of my entire family, and my only friends…

You don’t think that she got the job because Trump is hot for her and that’s all?

That could also be because she’s Ivanka-adjacent (to borrow a real estate term he’d understand).

She probably has dirt on Tango himself as he clearly has a thing for her (bleurgh) given how close he’s kept her.

As Ta-Nehasi Coates was reminding people on twitter: 3/5s of a person was already a compromise. Missouri was a compromise. Lincoln’s election platform was a compromise. The road to the civil war was paved in compromises that never managed to be enough for the slaveholders of the south.

I’m white and I do. I always hope they’re white. Sigh.

I’m tired of this.

I work a block from there. I’ve been getting totally conflicting reports about what exactly happened (I’m way up on a high floor so I was only aware about this through building security/the news)