I'm trying to be (sorta) optimistic (kinda) and hope that the massive infusion of cash this is definitely going to result in will go to Harper Lee to make her final years the most comfortable they could possibly be. Like daily foot and leg massages and all of the best in-home nursing care and so on.

That book is going to be sold one way or another, though. Maybe it's better that she gets some benefit from it while she's still alive. Sadly, the vultures seem to be circling.

Inversely, there is the theory that Harper Lee wrote most of In Cold Blood.

In the sequel, Scout becomes a superhero named "Mockingbird" and the United States Government attempts to neutralize the threat, led by her conflicted father, Atticus.

What makes that juust slightly more infuriating is the entire conception of that particular propaganda item. A dollar bill. Propaganda item. Why was this signifier used? Dollars are generally not regarded as a huge religious thing. So did someone go "hey, you know what? servers are atheist pagan scumbuckets. you know…

The number one most annoying thing I hear from people with horrible Midwest accents?

New Yorkers are IN A HURRY and we live in a crowded city so we GIVE EACH OTHER SPACE.

I went to the Westminster Dog Show (or whatever the hell it's called) with a friend of mine who is Cuban. (We were given luxury box tickets that our boss couldn't use.) He gave the best possible description of the crowd there: "This group is whiter than the Republican National Convention." (Full disclosure: that…

One of the best parts of being a southerner in Yankee territory is that you get to watch people eat up stories about how you rode a tractor to school and went to prom in a cornfield/old-timey saloon/we-didn't-have-prom-we-just-had-an-old-fashioned-snipe-hunt. Please do not ruin that for me.

There are some groups of Christians who have a special piece of paper printed up suck that it looks like a $10 bill on one side, and on the other side it tells you how you are going to burn in hell. They offer this to servers and delivery people as a special FU, because when you get this handed to you along with the…

Ooo! You should hear last week's This American Life! It's all about shitty internet comments, and the first story is Lindy West (former Jezebel writer) telling about the time a horrible troll apologized to her. I think the above person was just genuinely annoyed, whereas this story was about a pretty bad troll, and…

I'm Jewish, and I usually leave a picture of my mom.

Is Indiana part of the Mid-West? I had to work with four engineers from Japan for a week in Indiana.

I know you saw the word "xenophobic" in that other story and thought it would make you sound extry book-learned to drop it in your post, but that word does not mean what you think it means, Pat Robertson.

[...]it's obvious I'm in the minority here.

I worked at a deli delivering food, doing cashier stuff and bussing food off. I once had a fucking receptionist at an insurance company hand me a folded $100 bill as a tip for a $400 catering order. Awesome!

It's kind of the same as when PoC criticize white people: if you are a white person hearing that and you don't do the things the criticism is about, then you're not being criticized, so our job is to kick down and not get mad (after first honestly self-examining to figure out whether we actually have been doing the…

xenophobic? xeno-fucking-phobic?! who the fuck are you?!

I feel like their being Christians is relevant. He got a picture of Jesus as a tip. I don't think that atheists, jews, hindus, etc. do that. Also, as a someone who is not Christian and was raised in on the East Coast, seeing the extent of religiosity of can be pretty striking...