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For real. I feel it’s worth pointing out though because it’s almost never just one victim. It’s a pattern of abusive behavior that gets normalized. The more we understand it, the better we can stop it. Also there seem to be a bunch of people who think he only touched the one lady so that’s somehow more excusable.

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What's all this about pork? (Asks Baconzgood)

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The only thing I know about Blackboards is clapping the erasers at the end of the day for being "too rambunctious" when I was a kid.

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Here’s a hack you can try to help make things simple. Would you touch your male coworker like this? If you wouldn’t grab Jerry’s thigh at the end of a networking mixer and suggest he head back to your hotel room after that long flight in, don’t do it to a woman. If you would do it to both (ayyyyyyyy call me), would you touch your aunt that way? No? Then don’t do it.

And spoiler alert, if you are perfectly capable of keeping your hands to yourself in certain situations and not others, you have no excuses.

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Mediocre white math nerd feels qualified to do political analysis, has picture under Dunning-Kruger in dictionary. Is also mediocre, white, a math nerd. Details at 11.

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;)

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So true. Behind every great man is a greater woman....making a sammich

(C'mon how can I NOT MAKE a sexist snark).

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OT.

My neighbors dog was just run over and killed. It was an accident. But a bummer. I liked the pooch. It was a dumb dog and super friendly.

RiP stupid neighborhood pooch.

Edit. EVERYONE in the neighborhood was cautious about this dog. When you started your car to "warm" up in the winter. ...well this dog liked to put its nose in the tail pipe. it would sniff the poison. It loved it ...no wonder it got run over

But we all loved that dumb dog. We all gave it a different name "idiot", "barkey dog", "JESUS HERE IS YOUR DOG BACK!"....again", "stop shitting in my yard", "he is loose again", "Oh, that is Craig's dog".

I preferred to just call it "idiot dog"

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Voltaire was glib, not wise, because based on that, we owe Donald Trump respect simply because he draws breath, and I still say that respect must be earned based on actions more complicated than respiration. I'm also not sure that devoting twice the space to his downfall and his character failures than to his accomplishments paints a balanced picture of the man John Conyers was.

That said, this is not a pretty eulogy, but it is without question an honest one, and that works, SER.

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Had to have a little chat with my MIL about why everyone seems to be talking about Chicago and its crime rate in the past few years. She said it was because it has the highest crime rate in the country. I pulled up stats showing multiple cities (mostly in Red states) with higher crime rates. I pointed out that Chicago has been in the wing-nut crosshairs (AKA Fox News) since Obama got elected, and Obama being from Chicago seems to be the only reason for it.

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Get your snark out now before the environmental collapse happens and you’re stuck bartering the last of your gasoline for a spot in some lady’s lush man harem. I’ve already got plans for a throne made out of my trophy househusbands.

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I was always fond of the quote from Marianne Pearson wife of Nobel Prize winner and Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson: "Behind every successful man is a very surprised woman"

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You appear to be confused. Our Lord and Savior Bernie Sanders is the one who invented Medicare-For-All.

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Pretty soon he'll be growing tentacles.

Ramen.

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Nate, for Trump, every day is a good day..the best..the biggliest. Nothing we do will keep Trump from thinking he is the greatest. My worry is about the electorate. Far too many people cannot keep a coherent view of Trump in their minds. In short, they have poor object constancy. Every time a new story comes out, they forget everything they ever knew about the man. Trump knows this. All he has to do is through the electorate a bone every now and then, and he will be rehabilitated in their minds. So, no. I cannot let the American people forget the travesty they elected (technically) to their presidency. I cannot let this one "good day" wipe out the litany of lies and fantastically obscuring self-aggrandizement spewed out by this snake-oil salesman.

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I have a dearth of lush, but I'll take a job in the kitchen.

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