Ben Abrahamse

when Kennedy goes to hell all that pig fat will sizzle for weeks

I agree, it's "[You might] as well ask..."

McCarthy likes to report what people say without using quotation marks, and that's what he's doing here.

he would immediately die of alcohol withdrawal

my least liberal opinion is that it's perfectly ok for politicians to use biblical (or qur'anic, vedic, or whatever) language and allegories in their speeches as long as they aren't actually proselytizing a particular faith. Those works are part of a literary heritage that belongs to all of us

they fit fine when he was a marionette

modern day Republicanism is based on the premise that the liberal world order is stupid and obviously they could come up with something better. Not working out so well for them rn

as someone who listens to a lot of '70s music I occasionally ask myself did I summon this gas crisis

a wall of wood will protect Athens

ooh my kind of film

my kid caught me swearing once & said "Dad you know there are better ways of expressing yourself"

I think about how consciousness isn't an on-off switch it's a process. none of us can remember the moment we became conscious and I cannot pinpoint the moment my kid moved from being a ball of reactions to a person with a mind of his own

how much of Downton Abbey do you need to have seen to get the jokes?

why can't it just skip straight to the suicidal ideation

it would be deeply ironic if this were the event that tipped everything over to renewables

if the fully grown children who run this country have to be obsessed with a video game why can't it be something chill like Stardew Valley

no one told me that so much of being an adult was just being hungry and also not really wanting to eat at the same time

I read this as "AI pornography is bad" and nodded

then we can have a civil war over the book of common prayer

people who insist the Bible be read literally, except this part

single strike?

The craziest thing about American fundamentalists is not that they believe that Jesus is coming back but that when he does he'll be like, rich white folks: go to the front of the line

I'm fairly certain it's gotten to the point where fox news lies, the audience of Fox News knows it, and everyone just prefers being lied to

in 2012 I was living in Belmont and voted at the same polling place as Mitt (though not at the same time)

*Romney

do they know who Mitt Romey is?

1, 2, 3, 4, what are fighting for?
don't tell me I don't give a damn

very easy to romanticize that kind of life, but the no running water thing is real

my kid showed me that you can slow down the playback of a youtube video. a revolutionary development for practicing the drums

We've been at war with Persia since 499 BC !!! /s

one set of my ancestors came to this country and had a choice: farm, or work in a glove factory. they took the factory