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The Supreme Court has made horrible decisions such as with Dred Scott, Plessy, and Korematsu. Those were bad decisions spread over several different courts. The Roberts Court has consistently churned out awful rulings at that scale of horribleness. That’s what happens when justices are confirmed...

Right now it feels like we need to convince grandpa to hand over his car keys.

Well THAT is true. Now it mostly seems to follow gloomy, depressed people struggling with trauma.

I think there are two truths here. You have the sexist pigs who don’t like seeing a girl in their clubhouse. AND you have the OCD dweebs who freak out at the slightest deviation.

I picture them as pasty, lonely shut-ins who haven’t eaten a balanced meal in months. They were Star Wars fans before geeky stuff became cool, resulting in endless torment from their peers. Their school days experience filled with traumatic bullying has made them afraid to leave the house. They...

I’ll see your bet. Here’s my angel kitty showing her belly.

The only fandom worse than Lord of the Rings is Star Wars. No wonder they got beaten up at school.

They told me after that they hadn’t thought far enough ahead. At least the kids enjoyed the ice cream and cheesecake that we had for dessert.

I wish. These were the kind of steaks that need to simmer in wine and a spice combination that I grind myself with a mortar and pestle. I really don’t see why parents cave to their kids like that. When I was a kid, I ate what my parents ate or I didn’t eat.

Some of the wife’s family are here for dinner. I get along well with her sister and brother-in-law. They appreciate good food and I made some top sirloin steaks. But what do the niece and nephew want to eat? Goddamned chicken tenders and fries. That is apparently all they like to eat now or else...

Believe me, I would have brought her home months ago if it were solely my decision and if my neighborhood was safer for her. The best I can do for her right now is to keep her fed until somebody else can offer her a home.

Daisy the campus feral is now showing me her belly. She’s not even my cat but she constantly follows me, demands attention, and sleeps next to me whenever I sit down outside.

Speaking as someone who was born and raised Baptist, it's because they cannot admit they backed a revolting man. White evangelicals tend to view themselves as the moral guardians of American society. If they back a candidate, then that candidate must be a good, virtuous person. Their opponents...

Eastern Germany is basically their Rust Belt. It was dependent on heavy industry until the Berlin Wall fell. The people there play the same old song of shuttered factory towns and immigrants taking their jobs.

I used eHarmony and Match.com for years. I'm pretty sure most of the eHarmony profiles were dead. Match.com was better about showing when people were last on, but there were still many inactive profiles. Sometimes I came back years later and I saw the same profiles that had clearly been dead for...

The new Vox Machina trailer just dropped.

Venezuela and Haiti are failed states. The Northern Triangle in Central America isn't much better. There is also the usual poverty in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. It's very common for a decently well-off Nigerian or Guinea-Bissauan to take a flight from Turkey to Colombia, and then to...

It's not about kicking people out. It's making it harder for new migrants to apply for asylum. Some can still apply (eg. unaccompanied minors) but most will face a much higher bar. And some swing states like Arizona are much affected by illegal border crossings. Let's look at Hispanic...

Biden did try to alleviate the crush of applications by appointing more judges and clerks to process everything. It might have worked but Republicans decided they didn't want to give him a win during an election year. That's also partly why they blocked aid to Ukraine for six months. Severely...

I would, but my jack is busted.