When I was in 7th grade, I tried to pitch my memoir to my English Composition teacher. She bluntly told me that anyone who writes a memoir under the age of 65 is a charlatan. Not only was I not to write a memoir, I was to avoid anyone who was writing one without due cause like they had an infectious disease.

Yes, it is actually. We love to this sort of arrogant, unfunny, and ultimately pointless drivel out in this country, particularly when we think the rest of the world is watching. Goes back to the days of TR. Do other people’s of the world do it? Yes. Do they do it as often or quite as obnoxiously? No.

This really is the world cup of spam and we’re issuing a red card.

It was dumb in concept and in execution. Was it necessary or even advisable to trot out a smart ass remark at a press conference involving criminal indictments? No and no.

“This truly is the ‘World’s Cup’ of fraud.”

My God, I can’t believe I actually typed that.

I cringed as I heard it live earlier. There’s a reason the rest of the world rolls its eyes at us, and this is an example.

That’s an important distinction, thanks for explaining that. We had this girl come into a bar that served food (kitchen was open, no animals allowe) with a Chihuahua! Not a service dog. I took the heat for telling her to take it outside because your damn rat is not performing a service function. Just love your dog?…

Moyer said she gets her red kangaroos from a Wisconsin-based exotic animal broker, and that females run up to $3,500 and males, $2,000. (“He brokers any animal you’re looking for. One year he asked me if I wanted a white rhinoceros for $100,000. Last time he called me he had a bunch of hyenas. He’s an awesome guy.”)

Fuck her. You know what is probably stressful? Taking care of a shitload of wild animals. She’s an animal-exploiting monster.

Here’s good rage-worthy material. A high school in Ohio purchases a tiger cub each year to act as the high school football team’s mascot (yes, an actual baby tiger). At the end of the season, they give it to a roadside zoo or push the cub into some other shitty living facility, and then buy a new cub the next fall.…

The most disturbing part of this, to me:

And not just any 25-year-old, she has to be a nuclear physicist trapped in the body of a cheerleader who’s the only person in the world who can *help* the male hero solve whatever the problem is.

Well she *is* almost forty, the age when women apparently become invisible, pointless, and may as well be dead.

It reeks of Grooming.

COLLEGE IS NOT A SERVICE. If you think that college is a service and you should have a say in whats being taught because you are paying out the ass? your kids are better off not going.

I agree that there is a good deal of abuse happening at unis, and the power structure in place makes it very, very difficult to overcome. However, this is not an uncommon practice at art schools—I know this and I don’t teach an arts-based subject. Also, it’s likely that the prof has a female grad student, etc., in the…

The helicopter mom has landed. ;)

Thank you for this post.

My dad had to do this with not just his mother, but his two toxic sisters too. After his dad died, he had no tie to his side of the family any more. I remember we were constantly either not talking to them or, when we were talking, we were fighting. 10 years ago he said he was 100% done, and hasn’t spoken to them…

On an overcast, 60 degree day in a decent neighborhood I left my 3 y/o in the car to run in for one item at Home Depot that I had called ahead for and I saw from the parking lot that the store was not crowded. I came out 3 minutes later and there was a lady parked next to my car protecting my son and waiting to…