I think River Joe is a great name. But only if your father is Jeff Goldblum.

The graph is misleading. Social Security and Medicare have a separate tax that goes only toward those items. Discretionary spending is what is really important when it comes to government budgets. Here is the graph for that.

Stay strong, only a day and a half left. I’m not sure how you’re doing it because my swearing has increased substantially.

I did too! I gave up profanity this year. It is killing me.

Kara, I will NEVER disparage your affinity for IHOP.

Elderly Black women are masters of shade. One well-placed “ ... Mmph” is all it takes. I Big Chopped when I went natural and most of my family loved it (my mom and both grandmothers were natural and short-haired for many years - my mother has been natural since college and just cut her ‘fro shorter as she aged), but…

Gaze fixed on hair....and one of them asked me if that was “how the teenagers are doing it now”

I have 100% thought this since before the election. Like, towards the end of The Apprentice I thought this...It is so clear that it is true and it is so clear that Ivanka is his caretaker. When he leaves office, everyone will be all “you can’t criticize him! He was not well! blah blah blah rawr rawr!”

BUT YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO DROP ENTIRE WORDS. SEE HOW THAT DOESN’T MAKE?

Every time I read or hear something that 45 has said, I become more convinced that he has dementia. Everything he utters is non-sensical word salad. I know he’s said that he wanted to be like Regan so it’s very fitting that he’s modeling him in this aspect as well.

Librarians (especially academic ones) have a lot of materials at their disposal with which to be snarky and shady.

Kara, I wanted to tell you that because of your post after the women’s march I am attending a BLM event in Seattle tomorrow. There’s tax march in the morning but my friends and I decided that we would attend the BLM protest & march instead. These nice white ladies are going to show up. Not that I’ve ever considered…

...I can’t believe people think Maxine Waters is shading Trump. She couldn’t possibly go after him any more directly. For heaven’s sake, she’s been calling for impeachment since before the inauguration!

My grandmother was a librarian. I didn’t mess with her on either level.

If you’re like my brother and me and have a mentally ill parent, being even just 40 miles away during your teen years is a literal lifesaver.

From what I have learned, as a white person: If you want to be helpful, read a ton of things all over the internet written by people of color about what they want in an ally. You’ll get variation but the themes are the same. One of the biggies is to educate yourself (rather than demand education out of those around…

All you crybabies in the greys really need to examine why the idea of luck bothers you so much. Think of it as luck instead of white privilege. I don’t sit around telling myself how I am just better than everyone I grew up with because I escaped rural Appalachian poverty. I sit and think about how many lucky random…

Do not read this reply if you are unable to take someone being extremely abrasive and cold. I will not spare you a single detail or truth, and will likely as a result trample all over your sentiments.

Anecdotal evidence: A close coworker of mine didn’t get a bonus or a raise this year. Keep in mind he got 4/5 on his evaluation (5/5 basically means you’re being promoted), is friendly with everyone on the team, shows up early, the whole 9 yards. Their reason? “You weren’t here for the full year so you’re not eligible…