Yeah, the comments on this story are... something. It’s really weird to me how some folks appear to be laboring under the delusion that this was a complete surprise to the bride... according to the linked article, the sister got the bride’s OK months before the wedding.

Ugh. I briefly went to work for a smallish company run by a crazy narcissistic asshole (though in tech rather than journalism, so at least the abused workers were paid better) but just reading those slack screenshots puts me right back in that mindset: trying to get work done while keeping one eye on the never-ending…

Car Talk was one of the first things I remember really looking forward to doing with my dad, listening on trips to the store or while I was helping him in his shop or whatever. We must have started listening right around when the show went national. I looked forward to it every weekend, and I still remember sitting in…

What you don’t understand is that airport travel times, you know, airport times, how long airports take to get to the hotels, are measured differently on that side of the Atlantic. It’s a big ocean, you know? Lots of ocean. You’ve never seen so many boats. You really can’t compare the two airport times. Five minutes,…

“It wasn’t like a, ‘you must,’” Short insisted. “It wasn’t like, ‘you have to.’”

Damn, the Wrangler images on those buttons. I’m trying to tell myself that I wouldn’t be bothered by this, but I just know my the OCD I’ve been forced to realize is a part of my personality as I get older would be absolutely fucking screaming every time I saw those buttons.

Yeah, I don’t mean to minimize the reporting here, but my first thought upon reading the headline was “I don’t really need to see how they’ve infiltrated it, simply turning on Fox News any night of the week for the last couple of decades shows how they’re running it.”

Get ready, folks. This is just the smallest of tastes of what’s coming. I’d strongly recommend anybody who values their sanity and blood pressure to back off news slowly between now and next November. The lies are going to come fast and thick, the projection is going to be overwhelming. Those of us with souls will…

Apologies for me, but not for thee.

From top to bottom, the Trump campaign/administration is just a teeming mass of incredibly shitty fucking people. It’s almost impressive how they haven’t even managed to accidentally hire someone who isn’t complete garbage.

“You know where she says,” Conway begins singing, “‘If you say it on the street that’s a knock out, if you put it in a tweet, that’s a cop out,’ I love that, that basically is Washington in a nutshell.”

I love how you can practically feel his hands shaking with anger reading the email he sent. It’s practically bursting at the seams with passive-aggressive rage. Christ, he signed an email in which he’s tattling to Karpf’s boss with “cordially!”

Seriously. I love how Prof. Karpf specifically notes that the tweet had 9 likes and no retweets before Stephens nuked himself from orbit.

Personally, the part that I find most weird is all the fans talking up toughness...as though they wouldn’t retire their job on the spot if they were in his shoes.

Yep. Trump’s always reminded me of one kid I knew in elementary/middle school. He lied about everything, even easily-disprovable shit. He’d invite you to his house after school by saying all the other kids were coming over; when you then and asked the other kids if they were going over, they’d say “I hadn’t decided…

Jesus Christ, I’m so tired of Americans being too stupid to understand when they’re contradicting themselves.

Trump is the exception that proves the rule that you should never judge a book by its cover. He looks every bit the spiteful, leering simpleton from every angle.

Meh. I can’t bring myself to give a shit about any of this. The last few years, Neymar’s ratio of off-the-field drama to on-field excitement has been overwhelmingly tilted in the wrong direction. Some of that hasn’t been his fault, some of it has. I just don’t care anymore. I don’t care where he plays or what bullshit…

This is my thinking. “Voluntary” will come in the form of a tiny line of text on a tiny folded slip of paper included in the packaging of Echo Dots that says “Voluntary use of this product constitutes acceptance of all terms and conditions, including the possibility that we’re going to analyze recordings of the expleti…

Yep, for sure. But then again, plenty of people already beat me to the “fleece conservative voters out of their money by pandering to their worst instincts” idea.