Seriously, going out and joining some kind of club or taking a class would be a million times more effective, and also have the benefits of doing something you enjoy, even if you don’t meet a partner. 

Good lord. 

What is it with these people? If we wanted to watch movies that didn’t feature queer people being queer, WE WOULDN’T BE WATCHING MOVIES ABOUT FREDDIE MERCURY OR ELTON JOHN.

I can’t imagine getting a chance to interview Jeanette Winterson and then basically ignoring her! I love Winterson’s work so much, especially Oranges are Not the Only Fruit (and it’s more-autobiographical counterpart Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?) and The Passion.

The number of men who can’t seem to understand that really good-looking people are just as attracted to each other as the rest of us schlubs are attracted to them is insane. Like, yea, of course Ken and Barbie are going to get with each other, for the same reason you want to get with them.

I somehow doubt that there is a regulation forbidding IRS employees to comply with lawful requests from Congress.

Can’t Congress just go down the chain of command at the Treasury Dept. until they get to someone who will hand them over? Like the Saturday Night Massacre, but without firing people and actually doing their job? I mean, sure, all the top dogs are political appointees, but once you get past them it is just career bureau…

As an aside, I can almost never tell what the animals in Arthur are supposed to be. I know Arthur and family are aardvarks because we used to have some of the older books where he was still drawn with the nose, and obviously Buster is a rabbit, but the rest of them? If their name isn’t some kind of pun I literally…

One of my bosses once replied-all to a whiny email someone had cc’d him on with “Don’t cc me on stupid shit.” I feel like the judge could have gone a similar route here. 

This Wag the Dog remake sucks.

Also, studies released after the Bracero Exclusion in the 60s show pretty conclusively that wages for Americans in those fields did not go up, and unemployment did not go down. What did happen was that farmers switched crops from things that were very labor intensive to things that were easier, mechanization…

I just got her book about the War of the Roses and am super excited to read it!

I can only imagine what being in a room with Empress Maude (Matilda) and Eleanor of Aquitaine was like... 

Stephen’s wife (also named Matilda; I’ve seen them referred to as “Empress Maud/e” and “Queen Matilda” to avoid confusion. Stephen’s mother was also named Matilda.) was also pretty badass. I would pay good money for a show that features those two women as the main characters facing off against each other.

Stacey Abrams is amazing, and if there was any justice in the world she would be governor of Georgia right now. 

“[Voters in Arkansas] look at the sacrifices that soldiers, sailers, airmen and marines make around the world, and they’re willing to bear some of those [economic] sacrifices in the short term to hopefully in the long term ensure our longterm prosperity and security,” Cotton insisted.

Yea, I mean, I have sympathy for these people, I really do, especially for their kids, who bear all the brunt and none of the responsibility for their parents voting habits. But at the same time, it’s like the story of the man who thought god would save him from the flood and ignored the boat and helicopter that could…

You could get a job as a coffin builder! I’m assuming there is no requirement that you use your own products. 

I don’t think I am going to have kids, but if I do, I am sure as shit not doing it with a male partner. If I end up with a woman who wants kids,then I’ll think about it, but no way am I suddenly becoming the person who has to do almost literally everything to care for a child, and deal with some guy not feeling…