Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose...
Money is protected speech. Laughter is unacceptable dissent.
Chocolate ChaCha is my drag name.
It works better with a British accent (genitalia 😉)
Ironically, raging through Ohio/Indiana/MI/Wisconsin and making loads of addicts/dealers/their families felons could have shifted the election.
The thing that makes this particular hunting trip so horribly apt is that prairie dogs literally created America. During the early days of mammals in North America, after the glacial retreat, prairie dogs were attracted to the hard-pack that formed the area which is now the Midwest and the prairie, the breadbasket of…
Our prison system is designed to make money for corporations. They might as well protect us a little while they’re at it.
Sessions is the Keebler Elf whose tree bears the strangest fruit.
I’m a woman who’s smoked weed for nearly 40 years now. I’m no exemplar of society, but I’m a college graduate, mother of two successful sons, civil servant of 20 years, happily married homeowner.
Why not a registry for murderers, drunk drivers, and people who have been convicted of unsafe or reckless use of firearms, then?
Unless its a Catholic priest, apparently. They’re fair game.
I agree with you, we exist in a culture of violence, dominance, and winners or losers. It is not a realistic stance and even in our daily lives we discover that those narratives are bullshit and often we deal with transgressions through compromise, acquiescence, or any other number of ways that I wouldn’t describe as…
While I agree with some of your sentiments, a few points.
Great piece. I hate that we have to have this article again every time we get hit with fetishized suffering... but I don’t see it stopping any time soon. People love getting righteously weepy over dead children. The whole phenomenon reminds me of this piece awhile back : https://www.google.com/amp/jezebel.com/the-inter…
This is a good piece. I always feel so helpless looking at images like this, and reading articles about Syria. My new job is related to this and I hope I can handle it. I want to do more than just cry over pictures of babies.
I said at the time, “the wrong one is retiring.”
The snarky plaint of someone whose loved ones are limited to their “fur babies”. Yeah, the idea of When The Revolution Comes was exciting to me until I had kids and my parents got old. And kids and old people are the ones who suffer most when social and environmental upheaval comes surging down the street.
I am sick and fucking tired of these damn articles about Cheeto supporters. Where are the articles about why 94% of black women voted for Hillary? When is someone going to ask us why we saw the (obvious) light when it comes to the groped-in-chief? I don’t give a shit about these racist assholes.
I have to say, after hearing Chuck Schumer deliver some pablum to my university over a decade ago, I wasn’t terribly impressed. Seeing him here playing the hard-assed elder-statesman-who-maybe-knows-some-guys-who-could-fuck-you-up is rather refreshing.