I'd bet money Mother Nature says otherwise.

Too monstrous for a monstrous family to vote for, that’s quite the accomplishment there, Paxton.

It’s a little boring, but it’s a start. A slightly boring meal never hurt anyone. I wouldn’t shame him for trying; I’d say “Thank you very much,” and instead offer to collaborate if he ever felt like expanding his repertoire.

Not a knee-jerk answer, but here we are.

Buckle up kids. It’s gonna be a fun ride.

Joking aside, what a rotten bit of genetic luck with which to get saddled. Best of luck, guy.

The stupid! It burns!

JFC but I am so goddam tired of uttering the words “What a fuckin’ moron,” every time I read about him.

It's not that my taxes are too high. It's that the hyper-rich don't pay enough.

I don't mind taxes! As I've said repeatedly, civilization is expensive and can only be paid for on the installment plan. I'm happy to contribute my bit to keep things running. But when the rich won't pay their fair share…well that just fuckin' pisses me off.

I'd much rather drive the Miata. There's a reason that when I was forced to purchase a car after almost 20 years without one, I opted for a Miini Cooper. Sure, they're cute, but I was ecstatic to look it up and find it was only about an inch larger than my first car, a 1983 Renault Alliance MT.

Small cars rule.

While I wouldn't say that's right, I also wouldn't come right out and call it wrong either. This very much engages with the "Selfish Gene", an heuristic model of thinking about evolution from the perspective of the gene itself instead of populations.

As an added amusement, the book "The Selfish Gene" came out in 1976, and is the source of the word "meme," used somewhat differently than it is now, naturally.

Though amusing, I feel it's worth noting this image had to go back over a decade—eleven years—to find an iPhone without a camera bump of some kind, and would have to go back 6 years to get a pro-level camera without a plateau of some kind.

I agree that a dual measurement should be included, body thickness and camera plateau, but it never has been, so here we are.

And to give credit where it's due, I have no desire to own an iPhone Air, but it IS a bit of astonishing engineering. They've used the plateau to provide a place for the logic board, and turned basically the entire body into a battery to preserve decent battery life. Love 'em or hate 'em, Apple has a world-class engineering team.

"Alpha" as in alpha software: buggy, not fit for release, a poor first approximation of useful, error-prone, almost certain to fail at the desired task, etc…

This is one of my favorite pictures. The sense of time from it is palpable.

I love what it says about something as mundane as rope, that humans perfected it thousands of years ago and its form has remained essentially unchanged for millennia.

Haha as a queer gamer that just makes me think, "Welcome to my world."

I don't mean that in a snarky manner, but the fact is, nearly all gaming is hetero-focused. I can relate to scenes and choices making you feel uncomfortable, because that's my life. Gay representation is practically non-existent in gaming.

I recall when Blizzard added a couple of gay characters and quests to WoW and people lost their goddam minds complaining about representation being forced on them, though it was but a miniscule set of quests with unimportant side-characters. And never mind that straight representation is forced on all of use very day—that level of self-awareness was lost on the people whining loudest.

Merely acknowledging the existence of gay humans is too much for some.

Thanks to Bari Weiss I made sure to track down and watch a 60 Minutes segment for the first time since the 20th century.

As a native Floridian this breaks my heart. In my own view immigrants have an even greater claim to being American than I do They chose us, this nation created of immigrants. My family may have been here since the late 1600s, but I'm still only American by accident of birth.

There's a reason I now live on the opposite corner of the continent.

…and looks more dignified than any of them.

Looks good to me, exactly what you want a gym routine to do. He's toned and tightened muscles, helped the shoulders and arms get a bit of definition and taken away that bit of extra body fat.

If you're not interested in becoming a gym bro, this looks great.

You know I went to high school in Florida back in the 80s, and even my old white racist history teacher who insisted it was either the "War of Northern Aggression, or the "War Between the States*" flat out said the south seceded 'because of slavery.' She knew it was pointless to claim otherwise. You only need to read each state's declaration of secession to see it writ in plain English.

*Because thee's no such thing as a "civil" war, was her excuse.

I swear it's like he's sundowning. He focuses each day on whatever story confused and frightened him the night before.

And it's like we sent Jar Jar Binks to negotiate for us.

Sigh. An administration both evil and incompetent. I swear, the U.S. has had such bad luck with its recent government you'd think we'd built the nation on an ancient Indian burial ground or something…