Reading the comments here has taught me that I’m basically in the Klan because I forgot Spielberg directed The Color Purple. 

what

There’s nothing to be daunted by. They’re just big stores with kind of unusual layouts. They’re fun, though, and have some neat, affordable things. Don’t listen to people who think they’re too cool for IKEA or whatever, just go and enjoy shopping for chairs and dishes and whatnot. Buy a lamp and eat some food. It’s…

Every time I see his name, I think of Nour al-Deen al-Zinki—maybe Trump will give him the boot if we tell him Ryan Zinke is obviously a secret Muslim whose real birth certificate is somewhere in Syria or Iraq.

I know an Iraqi Christian immigrant who was a hardcore Trump fan. I wonder how he feels now....

God dammit, I can’t believe how uninterested I was in learning about the different branches of government in school

Tom Nichols is a very sober-minded fellow who loathes Trump but still nevertheless constantly tells people to remain level-headed and not give in to hyperbole when it comes to the terrible things Trump does. Which makes this response from him today a great shock:

I was about to post that story myself. It’s not just Muslim Arabs (and Kurds, too) that are targeted in Trumpmerica. Being Christian doesn’t protect you if you’re not white.

It’s very simple. The court is against not allowing the injunction to not allow the ban to not be stopped against the injunction against not banning the ban.

Ugh.

One of my favorite tweets tonight:

Yeah, cutter is closer to the “proper” pronunciation—though of course it’s not the proper pronunciation, by which I mean a purely phonetic pronunciation in formal Arabic, which is not how people actually speak (except for some tribal dialects in Saudi Arabia that are basically still Classical Arabic). Gitar is more of…

You’ll also hear it as gitar.

the story was supposed to be about an Assyrian king

It sounds like something you’d put in your garden to keep pests from eating your cabbage.

The IRGC, and oh Lord, look at this:

I guess you saw that Iran has blamed Saudi Arabia for the attack, despite the fact that Daesh immediately took credit for it and Amaq posted video during the attack shot by the attackers, who were yelling Daesh’s slogan baqiya. So Daesh covered it live, but Tehran’s blaming the Saudis... as well as the US, apparently:

More bad news for the Philippines:

I remember she was holding my hands for some reason and they were cold, and she mentioned that I was cold blooded like a snake