Somehow I don’t think this is going to work like that time in college I smoked an opium-laced joint and made both of my housemates cry describing how David Lynch movies make me feel. They never played David Lynch in the living room again. If only it was that simple.

Difference here is that Americans have bread and circuses. French peasants didn’t.

Misogyny. Incoherence. Ennui.

“TMZ is thought to be Depp’s close ally”

The OCR will exist at least through 2018. The federal budget is set through next year.

I cannot stand Rory and Lorelai. I wish they’d made them side characters in the reboot. I want the show to be all about Emily.

That’s an interesting question. I personally don’t think any take can be serious if it involves sequins, but that may be an unfair bias.

Antisemitism has been a problem in Russia for centuries. My great grandfather immigrated to the USA as a 13 year old orphan because his parents were killed in an Odessa pogrom. Jewish genocide continued in Russia periodically into the 20th century.

No shit, bro.

Women can be both complicit in and victims of patriarchal abuse. Men in power don’t care about those women, either.

Many sex workers have children. Is this really news to you?

Room for both approaches, certainly. But for some people, the idea of a translation app is a key that unlocks a lot of travel possibilities. Many awkward/anxious people have enough trouble getting around socially in cultures they’ve been part of for decades.

They. Don’t. Care. About. Us.

See I can see that from teenagers. They need to understand though that the celebrity apotheosis that’s become so entrenched in youth culture is not a good way to go about one’s life as an adult. Maybe they’ll just grow out of it, but as we see from adults...probably not.

He was more involved with activism and advocacy than he was in being a celebrity a certain point in his career. He didn’t go straight from “guy I like on my teevee” to “politician” - to me, that’s legit. He had credentials for the job that had nothing to do with his SNL credentials.

that’s my point

Celebrities really need to stop talking about running for office.

(This was mostly during the Bush years, BTW. President Obama got elected while I was down there.)

I’ve lived in South Carolina within the past decade. At least once a day, I’d see someone (always a white someone) driving around with a bumper sticker saying something to the effect of “I will shoot & kill you if you do something I don’t like on the road.” Southern Conservatives, the ones who don’t have their hands…

I’m using my wishes for things that don’t really matter. I’m using my actions for things that really do matter.