Same thinning hair too...the resemblance is uncanny! If the Nutcracker and the Cryptkeeper from Tales from the Crypt had a baby, it would be Kellyanne Conway.

A friend at a party this weekend responded to a sarcastic “We’ll be fine!...” with “No, seriously, most of us in this room will be fine. And we need to remember that if things seem bad to us, they’re a thousand times worse for many others.”

Perhaps this is me grasping at straws, but I wonder if part of the inevitability of autocracy and failure of resistence in Gessen’s experience is at all related to the fact that Russians had already lived under an oppressive government for generations before Putin came along.

In my more Pollyanna moments, I hope that…

I can’t look at pictures of any of the Obamas without getting choked up. Oh, this was a proud time.

This is how Democracy dies, with thunderous applause.

I still don’t have a Twitter. I’d like to say it’s some kind of chariot I’m riding in to a moral high ground but I fear it’s really a horse I’m riding straight into irrelevancy. I just don’t really get it. I Facebook and what not but I just don’t get tweeting and retweeting. Am I just a twat? What the fuck was my…

I’ve lost my mind at this point. I genuinely hope some of these people are assassinated. I hate myself for feeling this way. It is not a choice.

...and never recline my seat.

This tape would be so much better.

“is currently figuring out a way to use her platform to speak out about a pet issue of hers: climate change”

i want gawker back :-(

If America had a VP-elect who waved his dick at press conferences and literally ate shit, it would apparently be disrespectful to boo because of the position alone.

Also, no revolution has ever been kind to women.

Can we just have a round of appreciation here for the Jezebel writers, who have been ON THIS SHIT like nobody’s business? I am filled with love right now.

My favorite is the one where Biden superglues a draw shut and labels it “Muslim Agenda”.

better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to tweet and remove all doubt...

Yeah, “red flags” are easy to spot in hindsight, but so often they are perfectly consistent with innocent behavior. You can’t go through life just assuming that every slightly odd behavior is something dark and nefarious. There’s an implicit trust you just have to have in people that the things they are doing…

Please, we must add “Newticide” to the dictionary. Someone get on that, STAT!

That closer was deadly! Delicious Newticide!