I love that she has the guts to clap back at these blowhards but is doing it in a way that is not calling them liars, sexists or alarmists, but by basically calling them idiots and making them prove their knowledge. I don’t think a lot of our politicians really know their stuff when it comes to constitutional law, tax…

And as I mentioned in another post, this is why we NEED unions, transparent and regulated unions, to serve as the counterweight to the powerful that would set up situations that crush working people like this.  But again, transparent and regulated so that they don’t just go to bed with the powerful and work against…

I find his response so so baffling.  He has literally chosen the worst way to handle this (short of just doubling-down on homophobia).

Obviously her being underage makes it 10 times worse, but pulling a random woman out of the crowd to kiss and fondle is creepy in general

LOVED her in that!  Flora Robson is one of the best Queen Elizabeth I’s ever.  She totally puts Errol Flynn in his place in that movie.

I grew up with Cate Blanchett as my OG Elizabeth, and while the two films in which she played the queen do overly focus on her supposed romances, Blanchett as Elizabeth is always in control of her own story, which was how I liked her. At the end of each movie, the bad guys always lose. Ten years ago—hell, two years…

Why do people hate on Fish so much. He was such a gentle man.

Christ, my children continue to be such fucking disappointments.

Loving all the excitement around today’s swearing in for the House. Also, go Barbara— she’s my rep! :)

It also separates the violence from the other parts of the cycle of abuse when every part, including and especially the sweet apologies and “I love you’s,” are what makes the whole so terrible.

I have no horse in this race, but it’s pretty funny to me that buying an $80,000+ car is “smug” but buying a $70,000 truck you use to go get groceries (has that truck ever seen dirt?) isn’t “smug”.

This was really hard to read as someone who’s been a daily pot smoker for the past 10 years. The line that really got me: “I made peace with the notion that I wasn’t possibly going to absorb the finer details of whatever I was experiencing. So why even try?” I’ve lost so many relationships because I just couldn’t…

Yes they do. Plus there’s a straw person argument here: Type “vagina” on the NPR website and you get lots of hits, only some of which involve monologues. 

Paul F Tomkins is a national fucking treasure.

You’re not interesting because you jerked off in front of women for decades. Why does that mean I have to listen to you? Why does that make you interesting. You didn’t get your career ruined by a vindictive creep. You spent 20 years harassing your colleagues and threatening them with retaliation and now I gotta…

I recommend noted earth angel Paul F. Tompkin’s Twitter feed for the funniest takes on this dumpster fire.

“In no way am I saying this is her fault, but here’s how it’s her fault.”

Begin with the fact that the suspect had a criminal record and was apparently on parole. If that’s the case, then he is not afforded the same legal protections as someone who is not in the system. All of these law enforcement agencies should have coordinated better. Saying that subpoenas have to be acquired and things…

Maybe if the campus police hadn’t fucked about for 3 days while an officer was off-duty and instead transferred the case to the actual police on Oct. 13th, they might have done something. It sounds to me like campus police being lazabout fuckwads and not taking the threats seriously contributed greatly to the…

Thank you for reporting on this.  Not sure why we continue to lionize law enforcement when they don’t do basic things, like assisting citizens known to be in danger.