In a few years, we should be able to settle once and for all the question of what happens when you raise the minimum wage to a level like $15.
“Riots on the whole provoke a hostile right-wing response. They generate attention, all right, but the wrong kind.”
“You never, ever heard that in World War II. And the reason is, everybody served.”
Hey, I coined a word! It was a decade ago and I don’t remember it, but still. Cool!
“Um, dried beans in bulk are an incredibly cost effective way to get a healthy protein. If you want to cluck about poor people being irresponsible, clucking at purchases of dried beans in bulk is the absolute last thing to do.”
RIP, John Nash, mathematician and subject of A Beautiful Mind.
“Flash forward more than three decades, and the Christian right is gearing up to fight this battle all over again, albeit on a slightly different battlefield. This time, the forces of religious discontent are not mustering in support of racism, they’re mustering in favor of anti-gay discrimination.”
“It is astonishing, when you think about it, that paid leave has only entered the national political discourse in a meaningful way in 2015, with little help until recently from major political figures.”
RIP, Anne Meara, actor and comedienne and you know what else.
A mini-Buffy reunion, at a party neither of us was invited to.
“Republican first, Catholic second”. Glad we cleared that up.
“While I’m all for candidates answering tough questions, I’ve got a better idea. Journalists ought to simply skip the whole campaign circus, and forget about access journalism when it comes to the presidential race. It’s a waste of time and money.”
Jim Bob Duggar once campaigned for office on a platform that included capital punishment for those who commit rape or incest. Guess he’s had a change of heart about that latter one.
Speaking of changes of heart, I wonder if all those Republican politicians that have posed for pictures with Josh Duggar had had second thoughts about them.
“One thing that comes through fairly clearly in the report is that a lot of people who came into contact in some way with the facts of these incidents really wanted and tried to get his parents to get Josh Duggar some sort of counseling or treatment. While adult pedophiles may be close to untreatable, there is evidence that treatment interventions for teens can be effective. But his parents appear to have resisted this advice at pretty much every turn – even to the point (the interview transcripts are a bit ambiguous on this point) of lying to people in their church and local police about sending him for treatment.”
Oh, and by the way, TLC hasn’t canceled 19 Kids and Counting, just taken it off the air for now. And there’s talk about spinoffs, because someone’s gotta make a buck. They are gone from Hulu, at least.
If after all that you still haven’t read enough about the Duggars, The Slacktivist has you way, way covered.
“Answering paragraph 11 of the first amended complaint, including the first amended complaint’s footnote 1, Defendants admit that Led Zeppelin has been called one of the greatest bands in history and its members were and are exceptionally talented, but otherwise deny each and every allegation contained in paragraph 11 of the first amended complaint.
WTF are they putting in the dictionary these days?
“Presidents and members of Congress represent the country, not their own families. They should get straight on the fact that if their pet disease is being underfunded, then maybe a lot of other diseases are being underfunded too. It shouldn’t take a family member getting sick to get them to figure that out.”
JK Rowling is a mensch.
Now here’s a Presidential promise we can all get behind.
“But it happened mainly because people wanted to believe in those fantasies. They preferred them to reality. Faced with the choice between living in this world — the real world — and the monster-haunted landscape Judge Johnson describes, millions of people chose the latter.”