My experience was that going to a fancy school was good for me because I met people far richer than me who would consider employing me or hooking me up with some benefit because I was in the same frat as them.  That doesn’t work if you start out at the top of the pile.  What good does going to USC do for an already…

It may seem like nothing now, but 20 years ago people were so freaked out about this stuff that you could end up in jail for a long time for doing it.  You can still get slapped with ridiculous sentences for really mundane poking around on the internet, it’s just not quite the same level of paranoia.  

Always remember that she was married to Gavin Newsom.  That fact always makes me think that he is a deeply weird man despite his facade.

Nancy Pelosi is already very rich.

AOC was great, don’t get me wrong, but what we saw from her yesterday was simply intelligence and competence. Since so many of her peers don’t have either, she stands out. Imagine if every congressional district could find just one person among its 750,000 residents who was also intelligent and competent.  How hard…

Interesting you should mention pot.  In both cases, the interests of the ruling class are served by having a tool to oppress a certain class of people.  Pot was used against African Americans, Latinos and war protesters.  Prostitution arrests are great at making life miserable for at-risk communities, usually women of…

Luckily, the world descending into a hellish apocalypse is still free.

These dresses were a huge hit in the 80's.  I know, everyone thinks the eighties were about mini skirts and neon colors, but go back and watch the movies.  What do the women wear in all those movies?  Prairie dresses.

Who a person is friends with matters. Willie Brown is the source of much of the corruption in the city of San Francisco. If Kamala Harris dated him, it’s a data point that makes me wonder if she agrees with his views on corruption in government. Sure, lots of this is slut shaming, but it still matters if a candidate…

For all the mouthbreathers who think a bullet can’t hurt you: my father still has a scar in his hand from a bullet he hit with a hammer when he was 4. If you think a 3-year-old can’t get a bullet to go off, you have not met a 3-year-old.

I live in a neighborhood where crazy people (not generally malicious people) try to break into my house all the time.  I have a 4 ft length of 2" dowel.  It’s so much more useful than a gun.  If I shoot a gun inside at night, I’ll be blind and deaf afterwards and likely won’t hit my target.  When I do have to mess…

One of the parents in my babysitting group is a cop. I was at a party (for kids) at his house, and there was a full magazine of 9mm ammo sitting on top of a table in the hallway. Fuck no they will not be watching my kid.

This!  I am so sick of news organizations breaking into my regular programming just because Trump is talking.  They know that it’s just going to be word salad unrelated to reality.  Why not let me continue listening to NPR in peace and let me know if anything actually happens in all that word salad?  

I’m not certain what this all has to do with Christianity.  Didn’t Jesus spend quite a bit of time palling around with sex workers?  I can never figure out where “Christianity” gets its doctrine from, because it really seems pretty detached from the new testament.

Has no-one heard of this thing called a “shotgun”?  I understand that they’re great for destroying small flying things and that the pellets have a low terminal velocity that reduces or eliminates the risk of injury to people on the ground.  

I’m not convinced a lamborghini SUV ISN’T a clunker. That’s the sort of car you drive for 10 miles and then put in the shop for another $5000 of repairs.

Fuck this fucking shit. We pay $21,000 a year for me(47) my wife(40) and our son(3). For that, we get the same results that we’d get if we had the internet, some antibiotics and some superglue. If we do go in for a checkup or anything else happens, that number goes up. It seems to be just a starting estimate from the…

Kamala is a blowhard.  Warren is tone-deaf.  I like their policies, but they are REALLY not compelling candidates.  Can we please not have them either?  I’d like someone who will WIN.  

God damn, the crop of democratic stars is depressing. Warren seems like an out-of-touch professor, Harris and Booker seem like raging type-a blowhards, and Biden has a blind spot a mile wide.  Who is a viable candidate for president?  We need a real candidate who will win.  

My phone does this too in texts.  It’s bad software design.  Simple having a dot in it does not make a string a URL.  That said, Giuliani is a dipshit.