Because for most of us it was largely very boring. We stayed at home and had Zoom meetings all day.

Yes they face elections but once you have the backing of the party and the money that goes with it, you’re often pretty safe.

I really do not understand the argument against term limits. Being a Congressperson or Senator should not be a lifetime job.

Re: Gerrymandering. Look I’m not in favor of gun fights but I also know it’s best not to bring a knife to one.

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

I avoid wondering what Tolkien would think of things since he is long dead and a man of a very different country, age, and politics. But I feel quite certain he’d be horrified by this company naming itself after his creation.

Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Tim Curry in Clue

Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers

Tim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

*watching a St. Louis Vs. San Diego baseball game* “Apostolic Succession is a rougher business than I thought.”

ME: (shivering, stripped naked and tied to a chair) Drag queens have pretty privilege…
CIA AGENT: Again. Do another.
ME: Please, I can’t, I—
CIA AGENT: (dousing me with a bucket of ice water) Another take! Hotter!
ME: (sobbing) Dating someone who needs glasses is a predatory power imbalance…

Mike Nellis @MikeNellis "I'M NO LONGER CATHOLIC!" Hannity ABANDONS HIS FAITH for Trump NELLIS X.com • +*+

Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism

IF THE ZOO BANS ME FOR HOLLERING AT THE ANIMALS I WILL FACE GOD AND WALK BACKWARDS INTO HELL.

Austin 3:16

Plus we’re all very aware now of how easily the whole house of cards can collapse as it did in 2008.

Yeah the wonks talking about how the economy is “good actually” miss how precarious life feels. Even with insurance many people are one bad medical bill away from ruin.

I’m struggling to find an appropriate way to express my contempt for these kinds of ridiculous appeals to a highly subjective Arcadian vision of society as it was perceived to exist around the time that the person speaking was twelve years old and I really wish people would stop doing this

For sale: Baby shoes; Never worn. Not sure why I bought them. They’re way too small for my feet.

I’m an English Teacher. It’s my job to demoralize them.

Prom is Saturday so I showed my students my prom picture from 1999. They all asked, “Is that your wife?” about my prom date. I had to break it to them that almost none of them will end up marrying their prom dates.

“A hippo! A hippo! My kingdom for a hippo!”

Turns out Michael Meyers wasn’t a man in a mask. It was just a very pasty William Shatner.

But what do I know? I’ve never lost multiple elections to a reality show host.

Like you might recall this little thing called the 2024 election when that line of argument helped lead us to the present moment of civilizational collapse.

Look, I’m not gonna get into it, but if I were a centrist or center-left, I would absolutely not pick now as the time to argue that inflation isn’t that bad or that the economy is doing better than we think.

Well well well look who wished on a monkey’s paw for their degree to be “useful.”

We already had a plague. We’ve got a Holy War in the Middle East going on. Let’s do it. Let’s go full 14th Century.

I hope we get another Avignon. Make JD the Antipope. ‘Bout time we revived the concept. Except this time we put it in Omaha.

Personally I would be disturbed if I found a woman named Susan in my garden, regardless of eye color.

There's a personality tic that has really intensified over the past decade that is like...fear of missing out on Optimizing. Enjoying an experience but worrying that there's some criterion on which it could be Better, and the way to improve it is not to talk to people but to turn to tech.

It's bad.

She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since.

But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.

As a Protestant, it pains me to side with the Pope over a secular politician beefing with the Pope, but here we are. I guess I’m a Guelf now.