I *love* that Jez has covered this. Harris Wofford is truly one of the great American treasures, and no one knows about him. He got JFK to pick up the phone and call Coretta Scott King and offer support while MLK was in jail, and probably contributed to him winning the election. He shaped the Peace Corps- which is…

It’s a little weird but who cares? And the fact that they’ve been together for 15 years kind of speaks to the fact that it isn’t just a boy toy situation.

“Robert E. Lee” came in second.

This is way more common than you would think. It’s really common for minors who can’t have their own credit card yet, but whose parents are ok with them shopping online; it gives them a set cap on spending.

I’m talking about pirating something that I already purchased and lost access to because of some rights dispute. I’m sure a judge would laugh them out of the court room if they ever tried to sue me for that.

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Prime really isn’t worth it if only make a handful of orders a year, even if you can afford it, especially since they jacked the prices up a while back

Prepaid debit or gift cards.

There’s so little actually worth rewatching that my DVD collection never did get out of the single digits.

YOU’LL NEVER GUESS WHAT ONE FAMOUS AUTHOR SAYS WE SHOULD DO WITH CHILDREN! CLICK TO FIND OUT!!!

It says nothing. Please correct me if I’m wrong, but it appears to me that you’re saying that anyone (up to and including GEORGE ORWELL) who expresses admiration for Kipling’s powers as a poet and writer is a crypto-imperialist. Is that accurate? Am I a racist for appreciating the revolutionary power of Lovecraft’s…

Well, yes — you should do that with all literature, because it exists in a context. Four centuries after his death, I’m not the only person celebrating William Shakespeare as the greatest playwright in the English language while still acknowleding there’s an awful lot in his work that’s (to put it politely) profoundly…

Next week, she presents Jonathan Swift’s cooking tips as evidence of his canibalism…

My God, Katharine, if I was grading this in a first year English lit. paper you’d be getting a hard F. Yes, Kipling was an imperialist Englishman with some seriously unlovely views that were entirely typical of a man of his age and background.

There’s a particular irony of that: The Brother Remus stories were written down precisely to make sure that they WOULDN’T be forgotten, and the memory of the unique culture that developed in the South during that time would be preserved.

The man and his opinions changed drastically over his life, especially after Jack was killed in WWI. Same story as Mark Twain. As the men got older and saw more examples of how things can go wrong, they distanced themselves further and further from imperialist policy.

Colbert’s performance at the WHPC dinner was one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen. There are so many comedians out there whining “freeze peach” whenever someone points out that their act is shitty, and here’s Colbert dropping truth bombs right on the President to his face.

And you know what, the night before he had some rather kind words to say about Scalia, which I found very endearing. (I’m no fan of Scalia). That he was the only person who came up to Stephen after the WHPC dinner and tell him how funny he was and how he enjoyed the jokes Stephen made about him.

Oooh, I feel you! After he left Texas, he worked in the office of the large DC law firm where I worked. I can’t tell the story because it might out me but within days of arriving he established that he was such a greedy, arrogant, shitty human being that I came home from work and told my husband I wanted to punch that…

He was a partner in the Houston office of my law firm prior to running for Congress. Despite being largely conservative and Republican, everyone in the office (and the firm, generally) loathed him, so much so that to this day, no one wants to use his former office. It’s considered tainted.