I honestly had no idea that humorlessness was a disability the likes of which the rest of us -- whether white or male or whatever -- need consider with care and delicacy before attempting a punchline about some politician declaring pridefully that she fucking shot her dog.

Explaining sarcasm or any humor, for that matter, is a mission to hell itself. I shall never volunteer.

I'm quite comfortable making jokes about many things that are funny because the humor is attenuated; sentient people in this case know I am not actually in favor of killing dogs. For another example, I will readily joke about schtupping your mother when actually...oh wait, never…

Linda thinks sarcasm is not a thing.

Not like that goddam liberal Biden, who let his pup run wild, chewing on Secret Service agents. A real leader would have put a hot one in Commander's brain and tossed the carcass on the White House lawn as a warning to others.

Melania, I assume, has a great and special day planned.

Absent violence against or the physical intimidation of others -- fuck speech as a metric, however offensive you find it -- if you, a university president, loose police on your own students, or do not oppose such an act by a politician, you are in the exact wrong line of work.

Addendum: Thanks to all those who contributed $17K to digitized daily journalism and the non-profit Banner. The money will either subsidize a reporting position or provide three weeks of domestic beer and donut holes for the entire newsroom. I have commenced scrawling apologies.

Shitheel, you can travel my feed back to the moment that the Columbia president first called police on her own students and find my support for public dissent and even non-violent civil disobedience on campus. But unlike you, I can maintain the same ethic regardless of who is…

It isn't easy nowadays. At least, I have your mom to distract me. Tell her to wear the boots tomorrow, and yes, your dad can watch if she kicks back the usual discount for it.

Parental moment #231: Before my 13 year old will open the car door to be dropped at school, she must first turn down the volume on my car radio in a full cringe. Where is the hell in some other kids hearing a few bars of 'Search and Destroy'?

I use your mom as a pillow.

Mook, I've been in support of public dissent and activism. I can do so without being so intellectually dishonest as to rationalize any effort to monopolize public space, to impose unilateral terms on its use and to invoke violence to enforce such terms. That's not dissent, it's…

Wrong. And physicians around the country are openly saying that lawyers and legislators have supplanted medical judgment with subjective legalisms for when a mother or her long-term health are at risk. And tragedies are already occurring. Now fuck off.

Your mother is a balm. And relentless.

Which is it? Do you want to occupy the public space to express your dissent and invoke your absolute right to speak? Or do you want to beat on anyone who then exists in that same space and invokes their absolute right to document it?

We are really in that gutter.

Get ready for every single political election in this tottering republic to soon become an exercise in lies bum-rushing the last two weeks of news cycles, while every attempt at honest corrective fails to get boots and, boom, the polls close. O brave new world.

Yesterday, in offering legalisms that will have women die rather than allow established medical protocols to save them, Alito was disingenuous and evil. Today, as a USSC justice seemingly unaware that an independent DOJ so prosecutes, he's evil, disingenuous, yet also a cartoon.

Just so. Trump has won this case, regardless of the verdict. The Republic and our capacity to govern ourselves as a nation of laws have lost.