Thomas Effing Paine

2500 years of political philosophers warning us against a very precise kind of guy, and then the guy shows up.

You do *not* want to be the philosopher who didn't know better.

It sounds like they were going to use the power of whiteness.

I believe that you've just deduced from first principles the basic fan theory of how Jessica Fletcher was present at *so many crimes*.

They're "special" flames in that they can't figure out how to consume some simple flesh. They were held back several grades in fire school.

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

But we've *got* to talk about Kevin.

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Urban Dictionary, which is more reliable than the NIH on these matters, actually confirms this, which I personally am slightly surprised by, because I had been taught 'felching' as ass-specific and never heard anything to the contrary until now. But I stand corrected!

That's too many letters and also not felching.

Given that he was talking about it, "if you're going to talk about it, then fill me in on the details about RFK's e. coli consumptiom habits" can only be fulfilled by filling you in on the details.

This is just out-fucking-standing work.

That could have been anything, though! He might have been eating butterflies out of a maple syrup jar. Or maple syrup out of a butterfly's asshole!

RFK Jr. enjoyed sucking his cum out of his girlfriend's ass through a straw and waxing poetical about doing so.

ARE YOU GLAD YOU ASKED!?

Anus, maybe?

(I feel that you use medical Latin consistently or not at all, but the bar is at the center of the Earth at this point, so mildly unnatural wording is the least of our traumas.)

Words fail.

I teach at a community college and I can confirm that it's an unmitigated disaster and an existential catastrophe. I can't imagine any believable route to a human future under these circumstances.

"An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot — It will succeed where diplomatic management would fail — It is neither the Rhine, the Channel, nor the Ocean, that can arrest its progress — It will march on the horizon of the world, and it will conquer." - Thomas Paine

"An army of principles will penetrate where an army
of soldiers cannot — It will succeed where diplomatic
management would fail — It is neither the Rhine, the
Channel, nor the Ocean, that can arrest its progress —
It will march on the horizon of the world, and it will
conquer." - Thomas Paine

I defy you to tell me that the baby can really pronounce that better than the dog can.

'Man' might do, or 'friend'. But I don't know that language "to lift men up" is really necessary when there's a concrete issue; addressing that directly, as if it (and hence the questioner) mattered, probably conveys the appropriate respect (and in a less decorative — more "manly" — sort of way).

There's a related story, on the page, that makes me really hope that modern humans did *not* make out with Neanderthals.

<shudder>

“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas. Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

This Texas woman developed preeclampsia, leading to still-birth. She DIED, leaving her young son behind.

This happens while an all-male panel in South Carolina is deciding whether women should be charged w/ murder for their pregnancies.

Abortion is healthcare.

How many more women have to die?
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Yikes to chiefliness and (good heavens!) kingliness.

We've gotta get over identifying masculinity with leadership.

Geometrically required?

We need to get rid of New Urbanism and replace it with New Lovecraftianism. Non-euclidean cities, baby! Your sanity is a small price to pay for affordability, walkability, and negative commute time, and the student-teacher ratio at the local schools is literally unreal.

Are you unfamiliar with the word 'would'?

Wow. That early.

I don’t want to hear about norms, I don’t want to hear about looking forward not back, I don’t want to hear about “bipartisanship”

I want the filibuster gone, the court packed, new states, and a top to bottom cleaning of the federal government that ends with a lot of people in jail

...and there's a small number of people who either like haggling, or are good at it, or both, and they don't understand that the rest of us are not like them. Unfortunately, those people are peculiarly inclined to be economists and policy wonks and try to craft what they imagine we would want.

confidence, much less certainty.)

(Which said, the lede that people use "quantum" and similar to mystify is 100% true. Our habit should be that if someone says "quantum", you immediately stop them, ask whether they have a PhD in physics or related field, and if not, probably ignore them.)