Ward Q. Normal (he/him)

weirdo @JackPosobiec reacts to netflix possibly buying warner bros: “They're going to make Looney Tunes gay They're going to make everything gay”

bugs bunny was literally the first guy in drag i ever saw but ok

I'm at school today for an event. This morning's drive featured three songs all titled "I Believe." Buzzcocks, Lou Reed & John Cale, and REM. Followed by the Mr. T Experience, "I Believe in You." Lotta believin' going on this morning, is what I'm tryin' to say.

they hate music, they hate art, they hate artists, they hate pop, they hate the video games they play, they hate the movies they watch, like, they're just all the worst fucking people you've ever met, none of them believe in anything

like, this is the single most antisocial administration in american history and i don't think it's even remotely close. they hate us, they hate themselves, they hate each other, they're just fucking nihilists all the way down

CDC now stands for Center for Disease Causing.

Today's drives: "I Am the ..."

Black and Gold of the Sun (Rotary Connection)
Changer (Cotton Jones)
Fly (Wire)
Jury (Moistboyz)
Owl (Dead Kennedys)
Reaper (Moistboyz)
Resurrection (Stone Roses)
Walrus (Beatles)
Walrus (Dead Milkmen)

Breaking: a federal committee decided on Friday that all newborn babies should be thrown into the volcano to appease the god that lives below it.

I know we're coming down to the wire, but I'm still willing to put money on this:

I have officially entered the "I statements" portion of the alphabetical order commute playlist. The drive home took me from "I" (Bad Brains) to "I Am Superman" (REM).

THREE songs by They Might Be Giants on the drive. "I Am a Grocery Bag," "I Am a Human Head," and "I Am Not Your Broom."

We don’t talk about just how many things Reagan broke nearly enough.

There are so many people living lives of quiet dignity despite horrific medical news or poverty or tragedy where every day they still wake up and try to be good people in the world even as the world pushes against them and it makes me even angrier at the absolute shitheads that rule over things

Gimme that Z-O-L-O-F-T
Gimme a grip, make me love me

feels like a good time to remind y'all that your gay apparel is dry clean only

transgender women have been banned from joining in on the reindeer games

"Oh my god you threw your trash in that trash can instead of just dropping it on the sidewalk? That's virtue signaling."

"Oh wow you have a fire extinguisher in your kitchen? Virtue signal much?"

I hate to break it to this dude, but all of those criteria (especially no trumpers) are absolutely about building a life, stability, and partnership.

Rand Paul tells me that he wants the full video of the Venezuelan boat strike released.

“And I think if the public sees images of people clinging to boat debris and being blown up, I think that there is a chance that finally, the public will get interested enough in this to stop this.”

I think Tom Cotton needs to retire to a small fishing village in South America.

What was the military's "loss" last year?

it is MIRACULOUS that we got rid of lead paint and asbestos when we did. if we had tried that today, there would be people whining about how we're restricting their rights.

I've seen "gender critical" activists say that cis women who suffer should accept their role as collateral damage in their "fight," because, again, they're not a women's rights movement, they exist to enforce binary sex roles on all of society. 6/

I don't know how many times trans people and advocates have to be proved right before the centrists going along with the idea that these people are standing up for women's rights get it?

They don't care about all the girls who want to be in Scouts, they want to order the world to their ideology. 2/

The sad, frustrating revelation that you only muted that horrid person's name for a week, so now she's back in your timeline, seemingly in every other post. Congratulations! Your name is now muted forever.

Learn to lose to women without having a gender identity life crisis about it!

Learn to be rejected by a girl without crumbling into a heap of failed masculinity!

Learn to be in an equal partnership with another human being because you like them, not because of the gender role they reaffirm in you!

TIL a new word: dummymander. To gerrymander so much that you turn safe seats into toss-ups and actually help the opposing side unintentionally.

May it be so.

When writing this piece, I kept thinking back to this Instagram post I saw from a trans woman the other day. This is what I'm talking about. Watch this:

a thing to ask yourself re: the GOP's electoral position is what could happen over the next year that could *improve* its position? and what could trump do, plausibly, that might *boost* his numbers with the public?

i'd say the midterm-level turnout for a special election is even more ominous than the swing

"It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year."*

*Your experience may vary.