my favorite thing i've learned in college is that way back in ancient china there was this poet/philosopher guy who wrote this whole pretentious poem about how enlightened he was that was like "the eight winds cannot move me" blahblahblah and he was really proud of it so he sent it to his friend who lived across the lake and then his friend sends it back and just writes "FART" (or the ancient Chinese equivalent) on it and he was SO MAD he travels across the lake to chew his friend out and when he gets there his friend says "wow. the eight winds cannot move you, but one fart sends you across the lake"

was thinking about that story, except instead of "the word FART" and "across the lake" it's "the most mildly challenging task" and "up to go get a drink of water or at least pace a bit"

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Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly "John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not."

My high school had the arcade game "Vigilante" in the rec room, and for 30 years this "I'm a BIG" billboard has lived rent-free in my head:

(via this page that has a few other weird billboards from the game...)

Gerald Ford's economics is the worst thing that's happened to this country since pantyhose ruined finger-fucking.

Wow. Leave aside the idiocy of the idea that "oh we're such a not racist nation that any districting that even thinks about race is ipso facto racist and can't be allowed" and just think about "oh courts can't say boo about partisan gerrymandering"... that once a party has any kind of edge, they are free to redistrict, ignoring any logical geographical or community idea in order to ensure a quasi permanent minoritarian rule. How is that any kind of justice? This is disenfranchisement in the most blatant scale imaginable.

"Stop the steal" my ass.