Still thinking about the moment the pizza delivery girl said “Happy Valentine’s Day”, and I realized when and where I was—in my pajamas about to dine alone with the Domino’s pizza I ordered for myself.
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Still thinking about the moment the pizza delivery girl said “Happy Valentine’s Day”, and I realized when and where I was—in my pajamas about to dine alone with the Domino’s pizza I ordered for myself.

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Hey, can anyone help me with an immigration question? See, I’m trying to apply for dual citizenship, but I’m having trouble putting everything together because I’m in a procrasti-nation.
Having trouble handling this.
Give me that old time depression
Give me that old time depression
Give me that old time depression
It’s good enough for meh
As a long time fan (and occasional cosplayer) of Shaggy, I am very much against the new Shaggy meme. Shaggy’s charm is that he is a friendly, funny, and lazy scaredy-cat. Making him into a all-powerful character who is meant to be (humorously) feared negates his humanity and affability.
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Can you be both too hard and too lenient on yourself?
Shaggy and Fred—ten years later—after Scooby has passed and the girls have left. The only mystery they seek to solve these days: “Where did the time go?”
As someone who lives with depression, who has often been unable to access or afford mental healthcare, it really pisses me off that people only seem to care about mental health after mass shootings. First of all, it demonstrates that the majority of people, including our representatives in government, only care about mental health problems when they realize that they could be negatively affected. Second, many people just use mental illness as a talking point so that they can avoid having to discuss gun control and hate groups (the shooter yesterday was a member of a white nationalist organization). Third, these events stigmatize people with mental health problems because they only seem to receive mainstream attention when someone commits a violent act. Most people suffering from mental illness never hurt a living soul except for themselves. Finally, I know that after the outrage from this shooting dies down, mental health treatment will stop being a priority for our leaders in government. After their attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act last year, their continuing efforts to sabotage it since then, and their newly announced plans to cut Medicare and Medicaid, I have no faith that they will ever try to seriously address mental healthcare.
“The right gun laws do prevent shootings, research strongly indicates. And these laws do not mean confiscating everybody’s guns.”
What kind of sick game is this, Valentine’s Day?!
My dad just got a big new TV, so I set it up for him and put on Planet Earth II (which I’ve never watched) to see how it looked. In vivid picture set to a soaring orchestral score, the series starts on a pygmy sloth lazing in his tree when he is stirred by the far-off squak of a female. At top sloth speed he swings from tree to tree, swims (!) across a river, and climbs up to the top of the canopy—all to find the object of his search cradling a newborn, unavailable to mate.

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I’m a part-time Lyft driver, so most days I meet a lot of new people and have many interesting conversations, but none as timely and affecting as the one I had this morning. My passenger was an Army engineer—the kind who defuses explosives—who’s served in both Afghanistan and Iraq, and who is awaiting his third deployment. He is also from Haiti, and most of his family are immigrants here. I think you can probably guess what kinds of issues we talked about.
After the ride ended and I wished him a safe deployment, I thought about how important it is to get out in the world and meet people different from yourself.
I thought about what kind of person the President might be, what kinds of things he might say, if he actually met the people he so frequently and casually denigrates—if they were not just abstract concepts to him but actual, flesh-and-blood human beings. You can’t have even the brief human encounter I had today and then call someone’s home a “shithole”. You can’t make a connection with another person and then think that their family should be barred from entering the country or deported just because they were born in another place.
You can’t dismiss humanity once you’ve experienced it.
Watching C-SPAN (I know I’m a lot of fun) to see what House Representatives are saying about the resolution to keep the government open beyond Friday. It’s easy, and disgusting, to see how Republicans are going to try to spin the shutdown if it comes. They’ve included funding for the Children’s Health Initiative Program (which expired back in September) in their bill because they know Dems support it and want to use it to force them to vote “yes” on their budget, which continues to ignore Dreamers and delays Obamacare provisions. Make no mistake, they could easily extend CHIP if they held a separate vote on it. They’re basically using children’s healthcare as ransom so they can continue to fund the government on their terms.
This is the fourth month-long “kick the can down the road” resolution Republicans have tried to pass since October because they can’t put together a long-term budget that will pass Congress, despite their majorities in both houses. This shutdown, if it occurs, will be the first time workers will be furloughed by a government run by one party that controls both the Presidency and Congress.
And they will try to blame Democrats for the shutdown by hiding behind CHIP. Don’t let them get away with it.
Just a reminder that the United States initially refused to recognize Haiti because the President at the time, Thomas Jefferson (a slave owner), thought it would anger the southern states to acknowledge a country that won its independence by way of a slave revolt.
Stuck between
wanting to work hard to make the world (or at least my corner of it) a better place
and
opting out in favor of escapism & fun.
Trumpists and Violence
After hearing George Bush’s strong condemnation of nativism and white supremacy, and contrasting it with Trump’s weak attempts at the same (followed by his infamous “both sides” qualifications), I thought about why it was that he and his followers so strongly disliked militant opponents of oppression, like Antifa.
It’s not the violence. I would understand if they disliked Antifa because of violence. I’m wary of them because of it, although I don’t condemn militant resistance to hate as much as I condemn violence in the name of hate (and let’s not forget which side it was that drove a car into a crowd of protestors). But it’s not the violence, because Trump and many of his followers love violence.
Trump boasted that he could “shoot somebody” and not lose any supporters. He suggested that maybe “Second Amendment people” could do something about Hilary Clinton. He told law enforcement officers not to be “too nice” with suspects, suggesting some rougher techniques they could use. He giddily ordered security officers to physically remove protestors from his campaign rallies. Trump loves violence—and so do many of his followers. I heard plenty of jokes about driving cars into protestors before it actually happened. So if it’s not violence they condemn, what is it?
It’s violence directed at them instead of others. They fully support police officers who use violence against suspects, no matter the context. They support police or military force against any people Trump tells them they should hate. They fantasize about teaching “snowflakes” and “kneelers” a thing or two. (They do this all from the safety of their computer keyboards, of course.) But if those same Trumpists want to march alongside white supremacists and Nazis in support of Confederate flags and statues, they expect a safe space, and believe that Trump was elected to provide them with just that—the ability to be “politically incorrect” (i.e. hateful) without having to face resistance or consequence. Violence is fine with them, just as long as it’s the powerful against the oppressed, and not the other way around.

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Those arrested suggested that they weren’t the violent ones—before opening fire on protestors, that is.
A couple of things about the Second Amendment:
First of all, nowhere does the amendment say, or imply, that citizens should be allowed to own whatever kind of weapon they so desire. What it says is that no law can make ownership of arms entirely illegal (this applied only to the fed gov until 2010, when the 2nd A was incorporated under the 14th to apply to state govs as well in McDonald v Chicago). The fed gov and state govs are entirely within their rights to make certain types of weapons illegal, or to make them illegal in certain places (schools, for instance) and to certain groups of people (felons and people with specific mental health issues). That is a good thing, especially because the 2nd A doesn't even mention guns specifically--it says "arms". A nuclear weapon is an armament. I hope we can all agree at least that no civilian should be allowed to keep or bear a nuke. Second, the original intention behind the 2nd A was to ensure that states could maintain a "well-regulated militia". That was especially important at a time when our national military was not yet the most powerful force ever assembled. Militias are pretty much moot now, but even when they were considered essential, the Framers still thought that a group of guys with guns should be "well-regulated".
So, if anyone tries to tell you that laws attempting to better regulate gun ownership are violations of the Second Amendment, they either don't know what they are talking about or are straight-up lying. Don't take that shit.