Fun fact: the tartan craze really took hold in the nineteenth century. The whole idea of “this was our ancestral tartan that we’ve had since the Middle Ages” is a pretty fiction. Sure, they had tartans but the idea that THIS IS OUR OFFICIAL TARTAN was made up by the Georgians and Victorians.

Nah, there are some sorta originals, but even those or basically Victorian meme-builders trying to be retro. Now it’s just marketing.

Apparently, the president thinks we all live in the episode of Seinfeld where their apartment building has low flow shower heads installed

My led bulbs can make me look like I’m purple with green polka dots, I’m not going back to incandescents. I have a low flush toilet. It works fine. Once in a while, I may have to flash it twice. If you’re having to flush 15 times, then whatever you’re trying to flush isn’t something that should be flushed down a toilet…

OK, y’all: dogs are good. Even dogs owned by bad people. I would vote for Ivanka in a heartbeat, but let’s not bring an innocent puppo into this.

Even without a conviction in the Senate this isn’t entirely pointless. He can’t be pardoned for any crimes for which he is impeached.

Feminist Blog Ignores Presence of Woman Standing Literally Right There

Pamela Carlan: “While the president can name his son Barron, he can’t make him a baron,”

Not just the men. Unless I’m mistaken, to the left of Trudeau is the Princess Royal, Princess Anne. Charlie’s younger sister. The hair certainly looks like her.

Does cancelling them also equal cancelling Kanye since he’s part of the fam?

Let’s just cancel everything.

The Herb

OMG, he actually said that to the troops? Some of whom may be on their 3rd or 4th tour of duty and missed many Thanksgivings, Christmases, kids’ birthdays, Passovers, etc. while bone spurs sat on his lard ass stuffing his face and playing golf?

Your post from yesterday was a topic of discussion on Meet the Press today. 

Michael Harriot: Secretary of Education 

Did you spot anything in the episode suggesting that the scene was perhaps less than 100% accurate? Anything at all?

One thing to note about R’s journal: it doesn’t actually spill the details on the squid-bomb. Rorscharch doesn’t learn the true extent/specifics of Adrian’s plan until he and Dan go to Antarctica. The journal lays out his suspicions that Adrian is at the head of some kind of conspiracy and most likely killed The…

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It was screened in front of my showing of Lighthouse, but it was Coolidge Corner Theatre which is an independent and non-profit theater. Really wild stuff!