I was watching an interview with Chris Christie and Stephen Colbert this weekend (part 1 and part 2, if you're interested), and I had a bit of a revelation. It turns out Gov. Christie is helping Trump prepare for the debates, and his explanation in the face of "how the !@#$ could you help this man get reelected" (I'm paraphrasing obviously) was the ( Read more... )

... and I can still not embed Comedy Central videos to save my life. However, this deserves a celebration.

Do yourself a favor and head over to the old Daily Show site for Jon Stewart absolutely railing Senor Drumpf for how he eats pizza. It's been a while since I've laughed this hard. (He really gets going around 1:09.)

I've watched Joker twice now and I think I've started to work out just why it leaves me so cold. It's actually pretty durned racist, but it does it in a pretty sly way. It's subtle. At a gut-check level I think I knew something was wrong, but it was really hard to connect to at a surface level.

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... and think you might enjoy, too.

(1) Vaccine as Metaphor by Mark O'Connell [Slate]

A really perceptive review of Eula Biss's "On Immunity." This looks at some comments Biss makes on why she was nervous about vaccinating her child, and why a lot of mothers might not. It's not excusing or defending or justifying that behavior, and that's what I ( Read more... )

I think I may finally - finally finally - be properly getting over being sick. I hope. I'm still drinking water by the buckets (well, two-liter bottle) and trying to get my health back by eating properly now that I can keep food down and getting a bit of exercise. Still feel a bit headachey and a tiny bit congested, but I'm not feverish. Can grab a ( Read more... )

The recent Supreme Court case has me thinking a bit about birth control and my own experience working for an institution with an ideological problem with it. I've spent the last several years as a grad student at a Jesuit (Catholic) university, and as part of my stipend/work benefits/whatever, they provided my health insurance.

Catholics are ( Read more... )

The gang over at Facebook got me talking about the recent "Hobby Lobby" case, and I promised an explanation of why I disagreed with the decision. Not necessarily as a lawyer; I'm not one, though I play one on TV hang around quite a few and try to listen to what they say. Still, this is less about what the law allows and more about how I think ( Read more... )

Today World Vision made an announcement that it’s changing how it handles LGBT employees, and IMO in a very good way. Previously, they required employees to either be in heterosexual marriages or to abstain from sexual activity. As I understand it, the old policy meant that if you were gay you couldn’t work there and be involved in even a long-term ( Read more... )

Apparently ignorant people are saying idiotic things on the internet. In YouTube comments, no less. Stop the presses!

People in the South are trying to prove that snow is actually fake because it’s a government conspiracy

Normally I’d go on about the stuff I need to get through after taking most of yesterday and today off from getting things done. ( Read more... )

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