It’s almost a given, alas, that in California, we name things after that which we have ‘disappeared’ (to use the Spanish term). When I was a child, the entire South Bay was mainly agricultural: there were essentially no zoning limits on new building, and so all of the orchards, the fields, the pastures were turned…

I’ll take the good old CA grizzly over any other state’s official predator. I don’t believe any other ones can decisively bring down the Golden Bear. Ursus Horibilis! e Black Bears are tough, though smaller and from what I’ve heard coastal bears are bigger than centrally located bears, so that gives Goldy a leg up on…

One is hardly shocked by this. One is barely shocked by anything anymore. Soon, they’ll be disenfranchising people for having funny-sounding last names

I thought we were fifth! Take that France!

I know this isn’t necessarily related, but just wanted to demonstrate the hypocrisy of the administration.

It most definitely takes skilled labor to do a lot of agricultural jobs. Even picking most crops without damaging the trees and bushes they grow on  can be complicated but that’s not all these workers do, more and more machinery has to be operated from planting to harvesting and then packaging. If your workers don’t…

My family has a small dairy in WI, and EVERYONE around them has their farms run on illegal immigrant labor. Apparently it’s become very common throughout the dairy industry. No one else wants to do the work. And most of the areas voted for Trump. What did they think was going to happen to their labor pool? Did…

We wish so too. Sincerely, Rest of America.

Talking about the differences in states: I have been reading lots of articles articles like this one today in Politico http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/09/16/trump-immigration-crackdown-idaho-dairy-industry-215608?lo=ap_e1, the story is often the same. Red state, Trump state, agricultural state, went…

Precisely. The past few years have really brought to light for me that the police are far too often predators, rather than protectors.

I know it’s a pipe dream but how I wish we were our own country.

Basically, it’s simply a matter of which States are giving a green light to predators to prey on undocumented immigrants without consequences vs. States that protect everyone from predators. Any time a predator is let loose to prey at will; ALL OF US, regardless of immigrant/citizen status are endangered. This is a…

Good.

Missed irony loves company

So it doesn’t matter how professional you, how educated you may be, if you’re conservative (the “stick to sports” crowd) you still misunderstood the first amendment? (which is ironic)

When we first saw that big map that she had painted on the floor, she was standing on “The Neck” and Jamie was standing on “The Fingers”, but still, death on childbirth feels like the sort of tragic irony this show is so happy to dole out.

*Warning* *Incoming book nerd comment*

Alternate ending for them to shoot: Cersei sacrifices her baby to the Night King like Craster.

I’m calling it now: Cersi dies in childbirth.