this years girl

"After they overheard that ICE was at the courthouse to arrest someone, they improperly accessed court databases to determine who was not born in the United States," a DOJ detention filing says. "They then snuck every suspected illegal alien who was at the courthouse out a back door, where ICE, who was waiting in the parking lot for their target to leave the building, could not see them."

by degrees

You are at the grocery store. You pick up a nice, girthy zucchini. You head over to the oils and pick up a thing of olive oil. Then a packet of condoms.

Satisfied with your selections, you head to the cashier. As you place the items on the conveyor, a voice shouts: "DON'T SELL THOSE! THAT'S GOING UP A BUTT!"

And then for some reason, the cashier agrees. Then the guy who shouted, this fuckass guy in a suit, marches up to the counter and starts demanding that the store never sell any vegetables that could be put up a butt. He starts out pointing at the zucchinis and cucumbers and carrots, but you heard what he said: he's effectively banning every vegetable, just enforcing it selectively.

You ask the cashier if he's corporate or something. The cashier says no. The manager? No. He works here at least? No.

Who the fuck is he, then?

Well, the cashier explains, he's the bank manager from the next street over. He's taken up a moral crusade against vegetables that might go into rectums and if they don't obey him, he won't take anyone's paychecks or any money from any store that opposes him. And his bank is the only bank in the region, so it'd be a huge hassle for the business and the employees.

the person who blocked me: your takes on solavellan displeased me.

me: twas mere frustration! a criticism of those unhinged few, liege. i have no quarrel with the likes of you, and wish only to show fealty by reblogging your meta posts with the tag "scrumptious", or perhaps even "SOOOOOOO TRUE!"

the person who blocked me: alas, this is a sin that i cannot forgive you for. leave these lands and never return, for your ilk are not welcome here.

me: very well. then you understand i must reply to your slight in kind.

the person who blocked me: aye. such as it must be.

"Without music, life would be a mistake" Friedrich Nietzsche

Buffy Summers: Look, if the universe decided to pull the plug on music? dealbreaker. turns the whole world into one big, pointless bummer. Why even bother putting on the leather pants?

Xander Harris: No music? Thats like buying car, driving it off the lot, and realizing the factory forgot to put in the steering wheel. You’re sitting in a very expensive, silent box, crying into your steering-wheel-less hands.

Willow Rosenburg: It's like... music is the energy that connects everything. A thread of light that's the basic binding spell for the universe. Without it, the flow is completely disrupted.

Drusilla :The stars are screaming... the music blocks them out. If the music stops, the silence comes with big, sharp teeth and chew the world all up.

Oz: Yeah. No music defeats the purpose of the whole...life

Spike:Life’s meant to be loud. Bloody, passionate, and screeching at the top of its lungs. You strip the soundtrack out of the world, and we’re all just meat waiting around to rot

Ethan Rayne:Strip away the melody and what are we left with? Just the raw, tedious machinery of existence. Dreadfully dull.

Giles: Music is, after all, the essential syntax of the soul. Without it, we're simply... bumbling about in a rather grey, terribly quiet void

I love you. I love you more than I love myself. I know it doesn’t say a lot but you’re the only thing I love this much.

YOU'LL ME??