“...we need you to go to work”

I have little sympathy for a man who spent his life killing animals for sport with no intention of using them for food or resources.

It’s a very strange thing that Comey spoke on Hillary when he didn’t need to, but then didn’t speak on Trump. Thing is, the truth about all that probably won’t be revealed for years or decades, but I’ll bet it will be fascinating when it is.

After mother’s day brunch, I decided to go low contact with my siblings. The indifferent, occasionally rude, regularly argumentative way that they treat me is horrible. Like my parents, they have no consideration for my feelings, though I’m expecting to be super sensitive to and tolerant of theirs. And my sister never…

My latest book was picked as The Guardian’s Book of the Week and I’m kind of freaking out about it — in the same way that a dog will go Gonzo for his favorite frisbee. It was announced online on Tuesday, and in print today! https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/16/silage-bethany-w-pope-review-poetry-as-salvation

Yes. Those were not the actions of a deeply ethical, moral person. Those were the actions of a party hack.

I think the greater risk is that he’ll get bored and restless with a whole week full of actual work away from the familiar comforts of home. Odds he tweets something awful are 100%.

This entire Saudi trip is so bizarre and emblematic of everything that’s wrong with both the US and the Arab world: 

It’s the color I’m not fond of. It’s like a weird in between pink and beige.

A dress meant for Grandma of the bride + peplum.

There is a 0% chance that 45 doesn’t say something totally insane, even for him, on this trip. It is going to be long, boring, and he won’t be able to go golfing. He is going to be grouchy as a baby on a roadtrip with a dirty diaper.

Only someone who’s never been to NY would jump to the conclusion that this was terrorism. First of all, there’s enough large trucks on the streets at all times that if it WAS terrorism, they’d use something like that, not a generic sedan. Second, people drive like idiots in the city. Some of them are also drunk…

mushroom bechamel for the fresh green bean casserole. Topped with fried shallots.

never mock mom’s green bean cassarole.

The casserole says ‘we care, and we’ve now met our obligation to show it!’

See? His inability to see female human beings as something other than sexual symbols to be judged and harassed (if they passed a certain threshold) was nothing more than ‘giving back’, ‘working hard’, and, of course, ‘rising’!

Trump supporting co-worker on the news this morning:

Because of course Donnie throws a tweetrum. How very presidential. And I can’t even get excited about the continual shitstorm he’s in the middle of, because if he leaves, we’ll be left with a President who is so pious in his thinking, if God himself told him to take a break, he’d respond with ‘nah. I got this, man.’

Ding ding ding! If you *really* want to have a relationship with a student—wait until they have graduated (ideally) or at the very least are no longer taking your class. That takes the power dynamic out of it.