I saw an interview with Joe Mantegna (I think), talking about David Mamet’s dialogue. He said “Everybody always says that he writes the way people talk. Bullshit. People don’t talk in iambic pentameter. He writes the way people wish they could talk.”

Should be a foregone conclusion for anybody who knows the USMCC. Or the Geneva Convention. Or the history of the Nuremberg trials. Or has a modicum of human decency.

So obviously Trump’s goons tried for an indictment.

Hard disagree. I just can’t imagine meeting a person with the same name as my dog. Would I tell the person?

“Mike? Oh, that’s my dog’s name!” just seems kinda rude.

It’s better than naming them people names. The dogs on my block are Kevin, Tony, Doug and Jeff.

Russia always amazes me in that they’ve never had a leader who was both competent and sane.

Is anybody surprised anymore? Robert Kraft is a close friend of Trump. He owns the New England Patriots. The Patriots team charter jet randomly showed up in Guantanamo Bay last spring. No explanation.

As a metalhead, metal subgenres are fucking exhausting. I don’t know how to describe bands I like without sounding like a fucking douche.

Hockey kinda makes sense to do cross-handed. Put your dominant hand in the position with more leverage.

Why stop there? “Homeland” translates to “geheimat staat”, which is the Ge Sta part of Gestapo.

Edit- whoops. My German is a bit scheisse. See comment below.

Same, dude. Gave myself surface germaphobia during a plague that turns out doesn’t really transmit via surfaces. I’ve made lots of rituals over the years about the objects that I touch. Hand sanitizer everywhere, cell phone sanitizer, gloves, etc. Went a little too far for a while, now I’m also trying to crawl back into normalcy.

Biggest positive change I’ve made recently is this: if I’m not eating finger food, what the fuck does it matter if my hands are dirty? I’ve got my cell phone in my hand right now, I’m touching the TV remote, I’ve got a can of beer. Not freaking out. I’m gonna scrub my hands like a surgeon before I eat this bag of chips, but right now? Fine.

Still got some hangups about doorknobs and sink handles, but I’m miles better than I was a few years ago.

When I was in Glasgow I couldn’t understand anybody older than 40.

I dunno. That seems double plus ungood to me.

Fucking hell some of these comments read as redpill bullshit.

I did 70+ pretty regularly back when I was young. Probably couldn’t sustain it now, though.

You think he’s ever bought his own groceries?

Think about somebody who has billions of dollars. More money than they could ever spend. More than their kids or grandkids or great- grandkids could ever spend. If somebody hoarded beanie babies or newspapers or anything else the way these fucks hoard money, we’d call it a mental disorder.

Now combine that with the fact that most world problems can be solved with money. Famine, disease, housing shortages, resource wars, land wars, pollution, climate change, reliance on unrenewable energy sources, etc. All of these issues can be solved (or at least mitigated) by putting money into it.

Now imagine being a person who sees these problems and all the people suffering and dying from their effects. A person who has the solution in their pocket. And their reaction is to say “gimme more!”

Yeah, that person is to blame.

https://youtu.be/wg-9oI4VqGQ

I always just find them on youtube. Searching for them is a bit cluttered rough now with this news, but this one is probably my favorite.

Don’t read his poetry. Listen to him read it. He has a wonderful voice.

Remember that a few days before the Kirk shooting, right wingers started to push the narrative that being Trans should count as a mental disorder and Trans people shouldn’t be allowed to own guns.

Remember that within minutes of the shooting, talking heads (and some officials) started claiming that the shooter was Trans. And when that was disproven, they started claiming that the bullets had Trans messages on them. When that was disproven they dredged up an old roommate who is Trans.

Remember that within hours of the shooting, the FBI pulled down their domestic terrorism stats page.

This is the next target. They’re constructing a narrative that Trans people and their allies are dangerous lunatics, and should be the next group rounded up and put in death camps.

Every woman I know in Seattle had an irregular period that month. Even people who weren’t within ten miles of the protests.