Sometimes, sitting down to write these posts feels like rolling up to an all-you-can-eat buffet of rotten hamburger and spoiled green beans. How could I possibly choose, amongst the smorgasbord of terrible behavior, what I would actually write about? […] And then Roy Moore stayed ahead in the polls despite accusations of molesting and assaulting teenagers, and I was like, “Oh, obviously that.”
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You will all be super surprised to learn that I am still sick, so this week is going to be a bit short as well. I mostly want to talk about the election on Tuesday, and the monumental, fantastic results that occurred.
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This is what a real maverick looks like. Photo credit C-SPAN There’s a quotation that is (probably erroneously) attributed to Ginger Rogers about how she did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high […]

One of the things that I really don’t understand about the GOP is the way their party line is “the government should not regulate anything!” when it comes to things like the economy, housing, medical care, the environment, guns, etc., but then when it comes to a cisgender woman and her uterus the party line becomes “legislate her body to the smallest detail!”
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My home state of Wyoming claims to hold to a “live and let live” ethos. The idea is that everyone just goes along doing what they want to, minding their own business, and not bothering anyone else. In this way we supposedly can accept all cultures, creeds, etc. In reality, this is mostly bullshit. The way that it actually works is “you can do whatever you want, as long as you don’t do it in front of me.”
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This week, Elle has a suggestion for a new bill, in light of the ongoing attacks on women’s bodily autonomy in America. Because turnabout is still fair play, right?
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