While I know there are a thousand new challenges springing up in the wake of NaNoWriMo's demise, I can't resist dropping a shameless plug for the group I'm a part of:

Rogue Writers does RAWR (Rogue's Amazing Word Rush) across Oct *and* Nov. Less icky burnout, same great results!

Cuidado! Piso mojado!

I guess not. Well, let's see what kind of cultural landscape the combination of end-stage capitalism and laziness leaves us with! I'm sure it'll be cool and good.

Welcome to Ayatollah Roberts's America, where the Supreme Court will rubber-stamp this as part of the path to a theocratic ethnostate. Laws no longer matter.

The policy of "only successful influencers deserve to be authors" surely won't have any detrimental impact on the nation's cultural or creative landscape.

I've been fantasizing about that for years. I want everyone who believes they'll be raptured to be raptured. Post haste.

I can hardly *imagine* how much we could get done without them violently fighting and threatening us every time we suggest being marginally less cruel to the poor and oppressed.

What about that which is not dead but can eternal lie?

You'd think "I support not letting a captive audience of children starve" would be the easiest policy position to adopt in the history of policy positions.

And yet, it's a tooth-and-nail fight.

It's Hulk Hogan's influence that has led to a situation where all the wrestlers who get real, consistent ring time are in their 50s and all the younger, new talent gets cut after a year or two.

Also, I believe Vince McPredator would have been ousted a long time ago w/o Hulk, but that's just imo.

Aww, I was excited for 85 opinions.

I mean, I knew it was an unreasonable expectation, but still...

18-year-old Army infantrymen manage to do a better job minimizing civiliant casualties in an active war zone than cops do at home. They have no excuses.

Which is nonsense. They're "not allowed" to break into an innocent person's apartment and shoot them in their sleep, either, and yet...

They're allowed to do whatever they want. They don't help because they don't want to.

Not much; what's bofa with you?

HAH HAH! GOT EM!

Mice can be a nightmare. I fought those little assholes for close to 15 years. Calling in a professional is the right move; there's no room for mercy or half-measures once they get bad.

You just can't with these people. They'll talk in circles and redefine common words (like "good" or "blood") and *never once* notice how absolutely unhinged they sound to anyone who wasn't exposed to this stuff from the moment they were born.

God is allegedly the axiomatic basis of "good." Anything he does is "good" by definition.

That dumb idea infects everything else in conservative ideology: "good" is an inborn identity, not a function of choices and actions.

If Trump does Thing A, it's Good. If AOC does Thing A, it's Bad.