“You cannot treat the 21st-century Republican Party as a legitimate negotiating partner, or a principled ideological opponent, because it has abandoned all principles, possesses no clear or consistent ideology, and does not respect the legitimacy of democracy. Biden’s pitch to voters seems to be that all of that was caused by one evil man with…
“The Bible says to love your neighbor as you love yourself, but what if Christianity has taught you not to love yourself? Then you hate your neighbor as you hate yourself – impotently, in despair.” –Lauren O’Neal, Empty the Pews Earlier this week, New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, “When politicians use faith as an…
Hoooo boy, what a goat rodeo of a week this was. I won’t rehash it in real time, your head is spinning too, but for those reading this in the future, just know this is the week in 2020 our fascist president contracted COVID. Obviously it’s a big deal, but I believe it shouldn’t and…
I don’t have an exact, or even vague, timeline of when roast chickens became all the rage for celebrity chefs. When food media began writing Very Serious Articles about whose technique was superior. I also don’t exactly know when Roast Chicken became some sort of home cook litmus test to determine skill, or seriousness, or…
“I take those pinky promises seriously” –Senator Elizabeth Warren Right after Senator Elizabeth Warren suspended her presidential campaign, I started, in a swell of fury and sadness, writing about it. I meant it to be a tribute, in a way. Then I got, oh, just a little sidelined by a whole global pandemic thing. Now…
Last week, on Instagram, I said that Joe Biden is not coming to save you, and I think a lot of people got kind of mad at me. I wanted to take a moment to contextualize what I said, because it was never my intent to anger you, just to warn you. First things first:…
Well. We made it all the way to September of this nightmare we bitterly call 2020, and I wish I had something uplifting to say about that. Alas, I do not. I, like you probably, am mourning the end of a summer I did not get to have. The past three months were mostly terrible,…
We planted a vegetable garden last April. I blame the pandemic. Literally, I blame the pandemic, as in I never would have agreed to such a thing had I not realized I’d be stuck at home with nothing to do all summer. We built three raised beds last April, then ventured to a local nursery…
“DNC should stop with the ‘decency porn’ and say how they are going to help people losing their homes and jobs.” –Kim Gordon (yes, that Kim Gordon!) We have a moral imperative to both vote for Joe Biden AND inveigh against his monstrous Senate record, retrograde politics, and profound character flaws. I do not understand…
“…Biden has permitted his League of Mediocre White Men to run around dinging up a group of trailblazing female politicians, most of them Black, all of whom have plied paths unimaginably more challenging than any taken by these men. This has been the vice-presidential selection process of Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign, and it should leave…
