He’s got to have blackmail material on the MSNBC execs, right? He is constantly getting tagged to do these large, high-profile events despite not being good at them and having all the charisma of a wet dishrag. I will never forgive them for making him the moderator of the Commander-in-Chief forum in 2016. MSNBC employs…

I’ve always wondered what it would be like to be the guy that doesn’t know that everyone is laughing at him.

I thought his pretty much summed it up. 

Seriously, if they cut two or three people off of each side of the line-up the whole debate would have been a lot better. I also thought Tulsi Gabbard got a pretty large chunk of time, considering I routinely forget who she is and that she is running for the nomination. 

I don’t know. Maybe IBM or Hugo Boss wanted another go-round on the “supporting concentration camps” ride?

Yes! I don’t get paid for a couple more days, but a big ole chunk will be going to RAICES. They do great work that directly impacts the people being affected. 

“Goofus says that families should be separated at the border, but Gallant knows that it is a violation of human rights to punish asylum seekers by keeping them in inhumane conditions.”

They pay the women’s team less than the men’s, but I am sure Meg Rapinoe can afford shitty fast food on her own. Why would she go to the White House and have to deal with 45 just for that? She can sit at home and polish her OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL instead.

Hasn’t the monarch basically always had money that was theirs as a private citizen, as opposed to money that belonged to them as King/Queen? I know that at least as far back as the War of the Roses that kings and queens had their own land (I mean, it still game from a bullshit system of feudalism, but it was owned by…

Good. Take them away. 

NBC News points out that beer company Natural Light has twice offered to give away $1 million to 25 people (or $40,000 each) who make the best video “proving they bought the beer and discussing their college experience.”

I think people are making the issue unnecessarily complicated, but really it would just be making state schools a (non-mandatory) extension of the same K-12 system we already have now. I think doing so would result in private schools having to lower tuition costs to compete (I went to a private school because it was…

Some people (heathens) don’t pre-wash their fabrics for reasons I can NEVER understand, although if you use a lot of pre-cuts like fat quarters it can be harder to wash them. Fabric comes from dirty factories, have excess ink, have been handled by about a hundred people before you get it, and are subject to shrinkage,…

This just reminds me of the scene in Station Eleven when they lock the plane full of contaminated people in the plane and leave them out on the runway until they (presumably) all die slow and painful deaths.

I feel like pre-washing verses not is a similar issue in the quilting community. 

Sure. I could have read about nuclear physics there, as well, but it turns out that there are benefits to actually going to a school to learn. Which is, you know, why we require people to go to them for 12 years instead of just shoving them in a room with some books and not letting them out until they turn 18. 

Ah, that at least kind of makes sense. It is actually about crafts, at any rate. 

I mean, to me the most logical argument to that would be “then it should just be cheaper and/or free” but these people aren’t huge on logic.

One thing that this discussion has really made obvious to me is how deep the anti-intellectualism streak in America runs. My job requires that you have a degree, but it can be literally any degree, so I majored in English because I knew I would at least enjoy it. My life was enriched in numerous ways by having spent 4…

Yup! I mean, shit, I pay $350-ish dollars a month toward my student loans, and if I didn’t have them I would undoubtedly put some of that into savings, but I would also just, you know, go out to dinner more, or buy myself that second pair of running shoes, or save up for a couple of months and go on vacation, or a…