My friend lives in a lower middle class suburban neighborhood where the houses are crammed pretty close together but still have pretty big back yards. He recently got rid of some old, irritating neighbors on one side and a new family moved in. The new family has a tendency to make a lot of noise, throwing parties for…

I'll take things Beyonce never said for 500.

Back in the George W. Bush days, I threw a Halloween party, with a mythological theme. I encouraged people to come as their favorite mythological figures.

My favorite was a friend who came as a “Compassionate Conservative.”

The thing is I don’t consider her ethical at all. It’s just that’s how low the bar is for republicans: simply acknowledging reality makes you stand above the rest of the garbage.

Imagine if someone told you in 2009 that the demonspawn of Dick Cheney would be seen as the most ethical member of the GOP House Caucus? The woman that had to distance herself from her lesbian sister so she could win her first election and shares every single political ideology of her father is now the second or…

Come be a Masshole! Our public services are pretty well funded at the state level, so even if you live in a more conservative enclave in the state you don’t get screwed. Specifically MassHealth is pretty great, and if you price out of the totally free version it’s a sliding scale for insurance up to like....45k income…

We’re from a blue NE state though we’re all scattered now. My kiddo moved out west to a red state but then came back for a short time.

Going from Las Vegas to Dayton Ohio has been rough in a lot of ways lol

Vermont here, but my family lives in a solidly red state. We definitely have better social services and roads, but taxes are high. Lots of BLM and rainbow flags here, but people are socially conservative. A loud minority of trumplicans. I don’t think I could ever live in a red state again. Not that everything is…

I’ve only ever lived in one state, a blue one (Massachusetts) so I can’t really give you a comparison but I get the feeling it just depends on what’s important to you. My sister had to move back home from Florida because there’s nothing quite like MassHealth elsewhere in America and she needed the healthcaare. But…

I guess I was mostly wondering about government services or government-funded things or higher pay or anything reflective of a more progressive society that would contribute to a higher quality of life and make red states look comparatively bleak.

Can you give us some more detail about what you’re looking to know so we/I can answer you better? I live in what’s perceived as a blue state, with a solid core of red running through it. Being in the suburbs (living with aging parents so as to keep an eye on them and to try to avert potential disaster for them), we…

Depends on the state really. Massachusetts was certainly better in every way than Utah and better in most than Texas. Oregon is a mixed bag, technically being a blue state but the eastern half is full of Trumpy morons who like to do dumb shit. Like fail 3x at a write in campaign to recall our governor who... keeps…

Dumb question, I know, but is living in a blue state noticeably better in, like, every way?

Congrats! I got the Moderna and I’m still due for my 2nd shot, but holy shit the stress just lifts off your shoulders after you get the jab. That’s awesome that your mom and kid are getting it too :)

RIP Olympia Dukakis! She was a fantastic actress and this was sad news.

I AM GETTING VACC’D ON MONDAY.

You know, I could have gone the rest of my life without seeing another close-up picture of Mitch’s reanimated corpse.

Kennedy pulled a “oh you like sports, name every player ever” and Abrams was like “Would you like that Alphabetically”

I wish someone would punch Tucker Carlson in the face everyday after lunch. (And after breakfast, and dinner, and every time he goes to the bathroom.)