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I also feel like it’s been really under-remarked upon, within the larger narrative of changes/conflicts in the Democratic party that two of these young women are replacing prominent Democratic men who have been credibly accused of assaulting women.
I mean, at the end of the day, it’s a minor footnote on their extraordinary accomplishments, but for all that their behavior has been obsessively nitpicked over the past months, that’s so rarely mentioned as a real or legitimate source of party division.
On the topic of Lynne Cox, I had never seen this picture before and I love it and I love that she herself, on her own website, captioned it with praise from Gorbachev, who I am pretty sure was never fully 100% convinced that she was not a CIA mutant.
I am begging you people to go outside!
“Why vote if I’ll be dead 10 years?” and “cars were better when they were made of heavy, sharp, gut-mangling steel” are the obnoxious political opinions of 80 year olds, but also apparently 20 somethings on tumblr.
Meet a Wingnut: Sandor Ellix Katz aka Sandorkraut author of, among others, Wild Fermentation. His website also is called Wild Fermentation
His main tolerable wingnut qualification is that he has a real chronic illness that he takes real Big Pharma medication for, which is, to me, a requirement for any health/diet related wingnuts. I only care about the health opinions of people who have actually had to navigate a healthcare system for treatment of a real illness.
But, like other endearing wingnuts, he has a general open minded, joyous view of the world. Fruitarian? Sounds cool. Cheese with maggots in it? Delicious. Raw vegan? Yum. It’s a dietary approach that is less “moderation in all things” and more “any wacky diet is cool in small doses.”
The first time I met Sandorkraut was when he visited our commune as very much our Most Beloved Celebrity, like we’d finally gotten Big Fun to play our prom, but it was this guy and his friends from his Radical Faerie commune come to give us a lecture about fermentation. Afterwards, my roommate at the time (previously seen in classic anecdotes such as “chickens for christmas”), who was as starstruck as any of us, said to Sandor, earnestly, like he was asking Jesus how to attain eternal life, “I left this goat milk on the kitchen table a week ago and I haven’t gotten around to throwing it out yet. Do you think we could eat it?”
And published author and Our Guru of the Moment Sandor Ellix Katz was like, “Yeah, sure, do you have spoons?” And then several of them sat together and spooned out mouthfuls of goat milk that had been on the table for a week. No one died. They said it tasted okay.
You are all valid and are all shining examples of the diversity of God’s creation with the wide variety of politicians that you want to bang. I support almost all of you.
But we have to draw the line somewhere and it’s not okay to be hot for Ted Cruz. We have to speak the truth with love.