Moar Hyperbole and A Half!
ALLIE BROSH HAS RISEN, PHOENIX-LIKE, FROM THE ASHES OF 2020 https://t.co/TUiiBmWuiF
— Sophie Beer – Arthur and the Tiger out NOW! (@sophiebeerdraws) June 11, 2020
Real novelty value, 2020 has it…
I call this collection "images that I could not explain to a time traveler from 2015" pic.twitter.com/mKfp2J4TK4
— leanne (they/them) (@leannekmho) June 11, 2020
Proud to be a Democrat:
A GOP-led Senate panel approves a plan by Sen. Elizabeth Warren to have the names of Confederate figures removed from military bases and other Pentagon assets, taking on President Trump, who has vowed not to change names like Fort Bragg and Fort Hood. https://t.co/7Tusj5UIqB
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) June 11, 2020
And finally… On the one hand, yes *roll eyes* We’ll let The Gays in our club, now that we know they’ll waste tons of money throwing a really big party.
On the other hand… Spousal Unit & I thought we were only getting married because his dad really really wanted us to, enough that he offered to pay for everything, and we kinda owed him for helping with the down payment on the house we’d already bought. But it turned out to be a pretty good party, in retrospect, and even after fifteen years together (sixteen years cohabiting), it still felt special the morning after. So, mazel tov, wedding dreamers!
Ever since same-sex marriage was legalized five years ago, the gap between spending on weddings between gay couples and different-sex couples has shrunk. Same-sex couples are spending more and have generated an economic boost of $3.8 billion to the U.S. economy pic.twitter.com/jrKsjHBoBW
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 12, 2020
satby
A friend’s same sex wedding a couple years ago was more elaborate (read expensive) than my own. And she and her wife just welcomed a new baby son.
Immanentize
Weddings, babies, getting rid of traitor names…. Good news everywhere?! What has this blog come to?
Blech!
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone ???
Immanentize
Did I tell y’all that in my Zoom class a week ago, one of my students decided to spark up and smoke a joint on camera? The Immp said I should at least respect the hustle. But y’know what? I didn’t.
Immanentize
@rikyrah: And a very good morning to you as well!
WereBear
@Immanentize: The times. They are changing us :)
Josie
I love Allie Brosh. Looking forward to her new material. Thanks, Anne Laurie.
satby
@rikyrah: Good morning rikyrah ?
Geeno
Allie Brosh is back!!
Okay that’s going on birthday gift request list.
prostratedragon
Uh … yay? Kind of like how I felt when tv commercials became racially integrated.
satby
@Immanentize: could everyone see him or just you?
Sab
My 6 yo granddaughter lives next door, but we haven’t hugged her since February. Very weird to wave hello to her over the fence. But at least we see her.
Nicole
@Immanentize: That’s hilarious. How did you handle it?
OzarkHillbilly
@Immanentize: I’m voting with the Immp on this.
Immanentize
@satby: Everyone — and it was a her.
debbie
@Immanentize:
Kids are always pushing boundaries, even the old ones.
Kristine
I loved Hyperbole and a Half, and wondered if Brosh had left all that behind. So glad she’s back.
Immanentize
@satby: Everyone — and it was a her.
@Nicole: I have learned that when I handle things in my moments of WTF, I usually make mistakes. So, the next day I sent out an email to all the students saying that they would not be allowed to smoke if class was f2f, and I thought it was disrespectuful to do so just because you are not physically together. That there is really no classroom and no public spaces in law offices where smoking is allowed, so if they must smoke, turn off your camera and rejoin when your craving is satisfied (or some such).
No mention of pot at all. That is the mistake I would have made if I handled it in the moment.
A Ghost to Most
@Immanentize: while this is to be expected of the PURA*, would you be as offended if they were having a drink?
*Pious & Unsteady Resistance Auxiliary
Immanentize
@OzarkHillbilly: Oh, I’m with the Immp on the hustle, and it did make me laugh (after my amazed period). But this is not a freshperson in college, but a late-20s law student. They are going to have to learn some boundaries when around others (like judges and their employers and even most clients).
Immanentize
@A Ghost to Most: Students can drink beverages in class. But if it was obviously an alcoholic drink in class, I guess I would ask in class if they brought enough for everyone….
Then either me or the Dean’s would be talking to them regarding whether that was the best way to learn, whether that might be distracting to others and whether they might need some addiction counseling if they really have to drink alcohol during class.
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
Gin & Tonic
@Immanentize: I went to college long ago, but there was a kind-of superstar professor in his field, who was *very* well aware that he was a superstar, to the point where his lectures were attended by people not taking the subject just for the entertainment value – he really put on a show, and part of that show was ostentatiously smoking a cigar.
I guess you could try that. You’d need to be wearing an expensive Italian suit, though.
Baud
@Immanentize:
Just to be clear, snorting coke and mainlining heroin is still allowed.
WereBear
@Immanentize: All sound strategies.
OzarkHillbilly
I never did. “I yams what I yams.” Now that I think about it….
Baud
No smoking pot unless you bring enough for the whole class.
Immanentize
@Baud: but fentanyl is O U T. Gotta draw a line, y’know.
Immanentize
@Gin & Tonic: I’ll bring NotMax in via zoom to do the cigar smoking for me.
And now, a smoking break; brought to you from Hawaii….
Amir Khalid
@Immanentize:
So what did you do? What are the options when you’re teaching a Zoom class?
ETA: Never mind. I see the question has already been answered.
NotMax
@Immanentize
Doesn’t Zoom have an option for the instructor to virtually kick someone out? Everyone is entitled to a first warning. After that….
Immanentize
@NotMax: Yes, I can just turn off people’s video and sound. But, hopefully I will never need to.
Immanentize
@OzarkHillbilly: And you have the forearms to prove it?
SFAW
Although it’s not as interesting as (hearing about someone) having a student light one up, during a Zoom class, I thought this Deadspin headline was amusing:
Driver Honors Confederacy by Retiring with Same Number of Wins
David Ciccarelli, a third-tier NASCAR driver, whose highest finish (in 18 races) was 10th place, decided that the “Confederate flag” ban offended him just too damn much, so he retired.
Effing snowflake.
RSA
Good one. And 2015? You could say “six months ago but still 2020.”
Immanentize
@SFAW: And I love that he has what appears to be an Italian last name — those swarthy mediteranians were certainly the beating heart of the Confederacy.
Gin & Tonic
Time for an update on the deck saga.
Some may remember in the fall, when your intrepid narrator had to remove an ~8×12 section of his deck – railing, balusters, decking and joists – so the masons could install their staging for the chimney re-build project. This was a problem at least in part because the deck, of which this was only a section, was put up 20 or so years ago using 5/4×4 PT decking, which nobody makes any more. So destructively removing the decking would leave me no really good options for having a matching surface later. As it turned out, my dear wife somehow tracked down a type of very large prybar-type tool that allowed me to remove the boards from the joists without real damage. I lost one getting started, and two more were kind of questionable. But removing 25 of them left me thinking that if I spaced them just over 1/8″ wider than before, I could re-install them over the same space, minus one, and it would hardly be noticeable. Over the winter the two questionable boards got more questionable, so I thought I could buy a couple of 5/4×6’s and rip them down. Lo and behold, this spring in an old pile behind a shed I found three 12-foot pieces of 4″ that had been left over from long ago.
Bottom line, at this point that section of deck has been completely re-built, power-washed and two coats of a solid-color waterproofing applied, and it looks better than it did last summer before all this crap started. I can now sit out there in the evening and listen to the birds. And I didn’t have to spend a ton of money (well, that stain was $175 for a 5-gal pail.)
OzarkHillbilly
@Immanentize: I have always had a wiry build.
Immanentize
@SFAW: @Immanentize:
Ha! Perhaps the Italian Confederate has another lost cause in his past!
The things I learn from tracking down threads on this blog….
Karen S.
On my gay agenda today… My wife and I are going out to look for a new gas range. The oven’s igniter, which we’ve replaced twice over the past several years, went on the fritz a week ago. We decided it wasn’t worth it to replace it again. The range is about 20 years old at this point and even when the igniter was still working, it was taking the oven several minutes, like 20 minutes or so, to heat to whatever temp I set it at. This little field trip gives my wife a perfect excuse to drive her convertible—a Volkswagen Eos. A wonderful day for it, too, with sunny skies and moderate temperatures in Chicagoland today.
OzarkHillbilly
@Gin & Tonic: All’s well that ends well.
Immanentize
@Gin & Tonic: Well done! Smoke a cigar!
NotMax
@Immanentize
(*begins polishing up Groucho delivery*)
;)
Kay
All the Trump people are so bad at their jobs and they’ll never get better because serving Donald Trump is inconsistent with- cannot be reconciled with – serving the broader country. No one could do both. It’s impossible. You have to choose.
donnah
Allie Brosh is back? I LOVE her writing! If you don’t know her work, you should go read her post about the time she had to move cross country with her dogs.
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/11/dogs-dont-understand-basic-concepts.html
It’s brilliant.
Immanentize
@Karen S.: that sounds so pleasant. (But you’re never going to fit a range in that little car!)
Raven
We had a wedding party here at home so local folks could come since we got married in Virginia. It was Pride weekend in Atlanta so many of our gay friends couldn’t come. A couple of years ago we had TWO gay weddings during UGA Football. I snakily said “yo, wassup wit day”?
Suzanne
GOD. I have been hate-reading Rod Dreher’s blog in an effort to better understand how social conservatives think. Today, his piece, and the comments, are driving me around the bend. First of all, he calls the entry “How Do We Fight The Woke Militants?”, as if there are woke militants. As if that’s a thing that exists in real life. Moving on. He goes on to lament further about how terrible it is that there are conservatives who feel that they can’t express their views without losing friends or their jobs, and how that’s because of “the woke mob” or some shit, and finally closes by asking “how we can fight back”.
I just can’t with these people. One of his commenters complains that tearing down Confederate statues is “humiliating”, yet they can’t see that turning away a gay customer from a business is humiliating. They complain about loss of free speech, but can’t see that their employers deciding that they can decide who works for them is, yes, free speech. They confuse being discriminated against with merely being unpopular. Dreher never passes up an opportunity to flog his books, of course, and encourages his mostly Christian readership to do the exact opposite of what Christ did and recede from society and form insular communities. The cherry on top of this is the commenter who stated “The only good Liberal is one dying in prison”.
These people can’t or will not accept that the reason that Christianity is on the decline is because they’re terrible witnesses for Christianity. They’re the worst kinds of self-righteous hypocrites, more verklempt about some looting than about actual people’s lives (apart from their own). How much digital ink have they spilled whining about wokeness and how little have they had anything to say about police brutality? And by and large, they supported right-to-work laws, opposed tenure, and are alllllll down with suppression of free speech, when it’s other people’s speech.
It just makes me sick. SICK.
I’m sorry. I can’t today.
Karen S.
@Immanentize: Haha! No. If we do buy something today, we’re having it delivered. I know it’s been hot lately, but I do miss baking. I hope we do find something we like today.
rikyrah
@satby:
satby,
I sent you a message on Etsy about more masks.
Karen S.
@Kay: Like you’ve said before, they’re all low quality hires. I do wonder if the people in Dallas coordinating the event mentioned anything about inviting them. Whatever the case may be, Trump & Co. will probably try to find a way to blame it on the Dallas event coordinators.
rikyrah
@Immanentize:
How is Little Imma?
Is school opening this fall for him?
Dorothy A. Winsor
Here’s a YouTube of me reading the first chapter of THE WYSMAN. I very elegantly wipe my nose on my hand before I start, so if you choose to watch, look for that.
Oh hell, I might as well dump a couple things at once. Here’s an article about me in the Daily Herald. I think it’s just in the online edition, but I’m not sure. They have my age in the first line and include a slightly demented looking picture of me, so there’s that.
NotMax
@Karen S.
So – a jaunt in the convertible with afterburners.
;)
Karen S.
@Suzanne: I’ve only read Dreher when other blogs have excerpted his stuff for pointing and mocking purposes. You have my sympathy in your quest to understand people like Dreher. From what I understand, he seems to have spent much of his adulthood bouncing from one Christian denomination to another, each more conservative/regressive than the last. Sounds tedious to me. Of course, he’s tedious, too, and appears to want to be oppressed so badly.
Immanentize
@rikyrah: he’s pretty good, thanks for asking. Rice is deciding what the Fall will look like by July. Not likely he will be living in a dorm…. We shall see.
ETA It really is time for the poor Immp to get on with his living a life, but the virus had other plans.
rikyrah
@Kay:
Who did they actually talk to in Dallas. That read to me like the Law Enforcement heirarchy in Dallas ???
He sat there with who?
The White people UNDER THEM??
oldgold
A long time ago, when I was teaching college courses, I always lectured wearing a good suit, silk tie and a crisp white shirt. It was far from the norm.
Over time a funny thing happened. About 75% of the students dramatically stepped up their sartorial game.
Immanentize
@rikyrah:
I’m afraid in Trumpworld, that situation is unpossible. Therefore, cannot be admitted as existing.
Spanky
@Suzanne:
JUST. STOP. READING.
Just stop.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Suzanne:
Righteous rant, Sister.
ETA: And yeah, what Spanky said. Stop reading. You already understand him and his ilk. You just don’t want to believe people can be that hateful.
Suzanne
@Spanky: I should stop reading! But then, according to their terrible logic, I’m “canceling” them. I should also note that they often discuss “withholding business” or their labor from insufficiently Christian organizations, which is of course free speech when they do it and woke mob cancel intolerance when we do it.
They want to be popular SO BAD.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Immanentize:
I feel for Immp. He does need to move on. I’m sure life with Dad is great and all, but he’s ready for new stuff. I hope Rice works out some way to do this.
Is he considered immune compromised?
germy
(wikipedia)
Suzanne
@Karen S.: He wants to be oppressed SO BADLY. It’s weird. I mean, Christian conservatives hold so much power that they got one of the most flagrantly odious people in recent public life to pretend to be one of them, and yet they literally have constructed a reality in which they are disempowered and hated.
rp
@Karen S.: Is recruiting on the daily agenda, or is it more ad hoc?
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@SFAW: I’m told that NASCAR had an entertaining Twitter response to his retirement.
Karen S.
@rp: We don’t have any toasters to hand out, so no recruiting today… unless we buy some at the appliance store we’re going to later. Then all bets are off.
Karen S.
@NotMax: LOL Good one.
O. Felix Culpa
@Suzanne: I’m with the others who suggest “stop reading.” There’s really no more *understanding* to be had and an effect of such reading is to become demoralized. I occasionally take a peek at a RWNJ high school [former] friend’s FB page to see what passes for thought in the fevered fundamentalist swamps, but tend to run away again very quickly. It’s fetid in there and bad for one’s mental health.
Betty Cracker
@Gin & Tonic: The very worst college professor I had the misfortune to encounter announced on the first day of class that he would be chain-smoking cigarettes throughout even though smoking wasn’t allowed in the classroom buildings. He said if people didn’t like it, they could drop the class. I was a smoker myself back then, so I didn’t care. But someone did and ratted him out to the dean.
The professor opened the next class meeting with a 15-minute tirade about the treachery of that anonymous student and the virtues of tenure. He included a lurid description of the things he could get away with because he had tenure, which he told us included raping the university president’s wife at the 50 yard line of the football field during the homecoming game.
As soon as the class ended, I went straight to the registrar’s office and dropped that class, which was, thank dog, an elective: children’s literature! Many years later, I saw a notice in the alumni newsletter that the professor had died. I’ve rarely read an obituary with greater satisfaction.
Kay
@rikyrah:
A silly answer- just mimicking words they’ve heard from decent people.
The question was why would they deliberately exclude the top law enforcement from the city? Was it an incompetent omission or a deliberate snub and insult?
Texas is really diverse. Houston is the most diverse US city in the country. They’re denying the reality of these places. The places themselves no longer hew to Donald Trump’s 1970s and 1980s notions of what the country looks like. He’s been coddled within a little tiny upper class NYC bubble for his whole life and he missed it when the country moved forward.
FelonyGovt
@Dorothy A. Winsor: That’s a really nice article.
Karen S.
@Suzanne: The desire to feel like they’re oppressed is, I think, left over from that long ago time when Christians actually were oppressed, back when the ancient Romans were throwing them to lions and such. I guess it gives being a Christian a certain frisson or something? I’m puzzled why the desire lingers, though. Christianity has been a powerful force in the West for hundreds of years now. I don’t get it.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax:
Gonna have to mute you. Delivering ridiculous one-liners a mile a minute will become distracting.
oatler.
The Ricochet site is tub thumping for literal military violence against “leftist antifa” in Seattle.
germy
@Betty Cracker:
I admit children’s literature was the last thing I expected him to be teaching.
Kattails
As a cuteness distraction, here are two bunnies playing games with each other in someone’s backyard:
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Betty Cracker:
Cripes. It’s true a tenured prof has to do something pretty egregious to be fired, although smoking might be considered one of them these days. In my dept, I once saw the scheduler hand a nasty class schedule to an obnoxious colleague (classes at 8am and 4pm).
mrmoshpotato
@Immanentize:
Tie it to the convertible’s roof!
Delk
My nephew is upset because he was supposed to get married this spring. He already lives with his girlfriend. I told him I had to wait 13 years and go to Iowa to get married so don’t be too down.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Delk:
It still feels bizarre that Iowa was the state same-sex couples had to visit in order to be married.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@FelonyGovt: I thought so too. They let me talk about what mattered to me in the book.
rp
@Karen S.: Hmmm…I could use a new toaster.
germy
@Immanentize:
Dumb racism seems to be spread across all backgrounds. “Dr.” Steve Huffman, the genius ER doc who asked if “the colored population” is hit hard by the coronavirus because they don’t wash their hands as well as white people, is Jewish.
Immanentize
@Dorothy A. Winsor: no, the Immp is immune fine. Just no stomach.
Delk
@Dorothy A. Winsor: it was going to be legal in Illinois in a few months but my husband just got over a serious illness and we didn’t want to wait. We honeymooned in Madison and when we told the clerk at the Hilton that we just got married she said hang on a minute and came back with the manager. They gave us the honeymoon suite for no extra cost.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Here’s an article about my nephew spending lockdown running every street of his small town, Rome, NY. Everybody needs a project.
WereBear
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Your hair looks FINE :)
Dorothy A. Winsor
@WereBear:
It’s being cut a week from today. I can’t stand it on my neck any more.
Kattails
@Gin & Tonic: Hooray and congratulations! Removing and re-installing an 8 x 12 section of deck–ugh. Old piles of wood yielding handy lumber-cool. Glad it all worked out and that you’re now able to enjoy the rewards of all that labor.
I’ve made a list of jobs around here from small, one and done stuff to large but urgent. Robins have fledged out the first round and phoebes are feeding some babies. Lovely weather for the next couple of days, I’m outta here.
germy
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/stock-market-wrap-white-house-trump-fed-jerome-powell.html
ThresherK
@Gin & Tonic: Oh, boy, I remember paying money to go to college classes in the olden days and having to put up with some professor’s second-hand shit.
mrmoshpotato
Well done, silly rabbit.
Gin & Tonic
@germy: Larry Kudlow knows as much about economics as I know about cardiothoracic surgery.
WaterGirl
@Gin & Tonic: Mission Accomplished! And it was actually a success this time.
germy
@Gin & Tonic: and he presents horribly on TV, and yet here he is giving advice on how to behave in front of cameras.
Kristine
@donnah:
I’ll never forget that column about her dog, which iirc was a rescue and just couldn’t seem to get things right but tried so hard to be “…a good dog. Like you wanted.”
WaterGirl
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
That is too funny!
WaterGirl
@Immanentize: Between his mom, his illness, the cruise, the big trip being planned, school delayed, and coronavirus, it’s a wonder that the Imm doesn’t feel like Job. And even if he does, it’s a testament to all of you, including his mom, that he is handling it all with grace.
Maybe not every minute, because we all need to let off steam, but overall it is really impressive.
MattF
@germy: I’ll note, in passing, that Kudlow is saying Powell should lie.
PaulWartenberg
OMG HYPERBOLE AND A HALF IS BACK
How I knew Allie Brosh was the writer/artist we needed in our lives: the copy of her book I ordered for my library disappeared faster than an ASVAB study guide. I AM NOT EXAGGERATING.
debbie
@Suzanne:
Nigel Farage lost his job on radio yesterday for saying something (missed what it was). Glenn Beck’s put on his drunken voice and is vociferously objecting to where the country is heading.
PaulWartenberg
@germy: this reminds me of the fcker who kept saying “buy more Bear Stearns stock” while the Bear Stearns stock sank through the floor in the Big Short movie.
smintheus
@Karen S.: Taking that long means the thermostat in the stove is not working right. Often very easy to replace and inexpensive.
Chyron HR
@Suzanne:
??????
mrmoshpotato
@debbie:
I’ll take “He opened his mouth and garbage spewed forth” for $1000, Alex.
SFAW
@Suzanne:
Well, that’s your problem right there. If you start with faulty assumptions, your follow-on work will not go well.
Betty Cracker
@germy:
OMFG, is this real life? Kudlow frequently appears more than half in the bag when he’s out there waving his pom-poms. Also, the irony of Powell being advised to SMILE after the woman he replaced was sacked for being too short is…**chef’s kiss.
smintheus
@Karen S.: A martyrdom complex has been an integral and consistent part of Christian culture since antiquity. In fact a lot of the stories about ancient Roman abuse of Christians were highly exaggerated or invented already in Roman times…especially in the 4th century when Christians were using their control of the Roman government to oppress all other religionists (and then to ban other religions/destroy their sites of worship).
germy
@Betty Cracker:
The economy will tank if we don’t clap hard enough.
donnah
@Betty Cracker:
Your former prof sounds like a gem. Ick. I was an art major in college and took a drafting class with a loathsome toad as the professor. I had a painting class immediately after his class, so I usually wore sloppy jeans to class so my clothes wouldn’t be ruined. At the beginning of class one day, he asked why I always wore jeans instead of a skirt, because “I’ll bet you’ve got a nice pair of legs” and when I told him why, he laughed and said, “An art major? Honey, you’re never going to get a job.”
Uncle Cosmo
@Immanentize: Maybe the material was just too difficult? After all,
evodevo
@Suzanne: Yes. The dropping away of most of the youngs from the fundiest congregations, and especially the SBC, has them in a panic. Articles in various fundie publications and books on their book list are about how to lure back those thousands of dropouts and/or attract new members. The consensus answer is , of course, just like with the right wing, do more Jeezusing and culture warrior stuff, and do it harder with more gusto…even though that is what is driving people away in the first place. They will never “get” it, because it would involve questioning the basic precepts of their beliefs. So they are doomed to scramble for an ever-decreasing number of “converts”, which involves stealing them from other churches…
Jinchi
@germy: The conservative version of ‘woke’ is when they tell a man to smile more.
I guess that’s progress. Good job, Larry Kudlow.
smintheus
@Betty Cracker: I had a few assholes too, but holy shit!
Betty Cracker
@donnah: What an asshole! From what I hear from my kiddo, there are still some jerkwad professors, but they don’t seem as overtly sexist and/or egregiously offensive as they were back in the day.
Uncle Cosmo
WTF??? Don’t you live near Boston??? Haven’t you ever been to the North End??? You should know that of all the hyphenated-Americans, the paesani are about the worst racists. Because we haven’t been white for all that long. In my father’s adult lifetime, he was called “w*p” and “d*go”; his “Boot People” were looked down on as thieves, murderers and (horrors!) anarchists, & had to pope-piusly pretend in public that there was no such thing as the Mafia… Until the WASPs got Cosa-Nostra-curious & learned to sing Soprano, & you know how it goes: Last ones in the “real-American” lifeboat get to pull up the ladder on the rest left in the drink!
Dorothy A. Winsor
@WaterGirl:
Haha.
Uncle Cosmo
@Immanentize: The Cosa Losta…
Miss Bianca
@Immanentize: Damn, this person is training to be a lawyer and doesn’t realize that the *first* thing you do *before* you spark up a joint is to *turn off the camera*?
Tsk. I don’t have high hopes for this one.
Betty Cracker
@Uncle Cosmo: I lived in the North End briefly, and you’re right. The old timers especially were racist as fuck. I did enjoy the food and the street festivals though!
Gin & Tonic
@Miss Bianca: Recreational use is legal in Massachusetts.
Miss Bianca
@Gin & Tonic: Yeah, but usually people take a dim view of lighting up a joint in professional or academic meetings. I mean, I live in Colorado, legal MJ pioneer, and that would still be looked upon as a lapse in judgement. Unless you’re meeting at a dispensary, I guess.
SiubhanDuinne
@Immanentize:
Lighting up when classmates and professor can’t even get a contact high? That’s just rude.
mrmoshpotato
@SiubhanDuinne: So true!
Omnes Omnibus
@Gin & Tonic: @Miss Bianca: Recreational use of booze is also legal, and it is still not considered a good idea to show up tp your 8:30 Con Law class with a Bloody.
Gin & Tonic
@Omnes Omnibus: One of the reasons I didn’t go to law school.
Suzanne
@evodevo: They don’t get that the reason people leave is because of people LIKE THEM!
I swear to God, if they spent even a tenth of the time that they spend complaining about trans people working on themselves instead, they might change enough to reverse the slide.
I have to stop reading it. It’s just terrible. But these people VOTE.
Omnes Omnibus
@Suzanne: And they will vote whether you read them or not. If you don’t actually learn anything and it makes you crazy, there is no reason to continue. You don’t have a duty to try to understand them.
debbie
@mrmoshpotato:
Nope. Turns out he told Piers Morgan that BLM was no different than the Taliban.
I listened to a bit of the interview, until he equated pulling down the statue of Edward Colston with the theoretical pulling down of a statue of a suffragette.
Suzanne
@Omnes Omnibus: I so badly want them to be persuadable. Even DFF (David Fucking French) wrote something pretty good about racism this week. But these people are absolutely next-level batshit.
Kayla Rudbek
@Suzanne: For commentary on Dreher and those of his lik, I tend to read the ones that left evangelicalism or the ones that turned aside from the right-wing version: Roll to Disbelieve, Love Joy Feminism, Slacktivist, Bilgrimage. I let them take the hit of reading this RWNJ evangelical crap directly.
Weirdly enough I have a more difficult time of finding or reading progressive Catholic blogs. Too many reminders for me of grade school through undergrad and then law school, I think. And with the sexual abuse scandals, I tend to side eye even the progressive Catholics for the most part.
prostratedragon
@SFAW: And as pointed out above, one who doesn’t seem to realize that his people just got to be considered White in this country about last year some time. Pointing and laughing deserved.