It is, of course, also a handy metaphor for her cold, rational depravity - what kind of sick bastard CHOOSES to have cereal without milk?

The Simpsons has been having its cake and eating it since its inception. It is neither particular consistent, nor has it any integrity. Whenever it does handle a controversial topic, it fudges it in a way that’s frankly cowardly. Its attempts at relevance are semi-comatose pop culture references knocked out in an…

He sounds like a right petulant little prat.

But here’s the thing about this: It actually worked! Keurig apologized.

Ah, where would we be without the faintly fascist, mildly autistic and generally rather creepy world of Silicon Valley? At least Lex Luthor has style and charisma.

...Plagge said that she and the other woman were told to sit and work in a glass conference room—“a fishbowl”—while IGN decided what to do. Then, Plagge said, she was forced to sign a document saying that she had conducted herself inappropriately, without being told what she had done.

It will be interesting to see where and when the first libel writs land.

One can’t help but feel this sort of rhetoric is the latter day equivalent of some lemon-sucking Scots Presbyterian minister demanding the alloted sinner be made to wear sackcloth and ashes. In any case, guilt through association is nonsense.

In summary, the ‘ooh, I’m white and very guilty’ is an inversion (not a rejection) of white ‘specialness’. Whiteness is still central to the experience, but now it’s one of public breast-tearing and hand-wringing, like how advertisers use irony and self-deprecation, but only to bullshit you (and themselves) even more.…

Perhaps she pulled the role off only too well?

As a cis, white lesbian, I have benefited and have the privileges I have, because of these extraordinary and courageous individuals who have led the way and risked their lives while doing so.

It’s so blatant, you have to wonder if that swollen carcass Weinstein is now clutching at straws.

Sigh.

Some friends I’ve maintained from our previous congregation have said they are happy for us—clearly that diverse congregation is the best fit for “a family like yours.”

Nietzsche is also relevant here, with one minor change, given his own rampant sexism:

as a way of offsetting the “Christmas creep,” which is not a cute nickname for your sister’s boyfriend

It goes back even further than that:

Ever been on a night bus where the top deck is full of screaming, vomiting drunks and downstairs is populated by mad homeless people talking to cushions? That’s Trump’s America at present.

According to the FBI’s uniform crime-reporting data for 2016, 90.1 percent of black victims of homicide were killed by other blacks, while 83.5 percent of whites were killed by other whites.

Both were true.