I’m a project manager at an art gallery and while we’ve never run anything exactly like this, I can speak to the therapeutic powers of art. Hell, a big chunk of my job is talking up the social and economic benefits of art in funding applications.

What is the proposed message behind this shirt? Because I could kind of get it if the idea was, “Look, it’s tough to make a career as an artist and even tougher to make a good living. You should pick something steadier and more realistic like accounting or nursing.” But “president” and “astronaut” are both wildly more…

You know what else is important? Understanding language, rhetoric, reasoning, argument, logic, etc.

I am so sick of this bullshit prioritizing science and math over the humanities. People who can’t evaluate argument, recognize propaganda or understand history and sociology are much easier to manipulate, even if they…

John Adams: “I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, natural history and naval architecture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, tapestry, and porcelain.”

I know cupping is a thing, but that picture still made me go all

For a real life comparison to Leia’s conflict with the first order see what 7 years of dealing with Republicans has done to Barack Obama.

As a young girl, I loved her. As a grown woman I think she's awesome and I fucking love her even more.

This was not culture and entertainment for “Africa” - this was an entitled rich person getting paid two million dollars for a show to entertain a dictator. A vial and oppressive dictator, who otherwise presides over an incredibly rich country, only while he’s a billionaire his people live off 2 dollars a day. What…

“We should be talking about if regime change is a good idea. Is regime change is a good idea?” - Rand Paul

He does realise he’s taking part in a presidential primary debate right?

However, if it were legally possible, I too would support another term for Obama.