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What a mess!
Boy goddamned howdy, huh? Here we are in this world where a monster shitbag president is doing the most to make sure we all die broke and fucked up, meanwhile the teevee box pundits are telling us that “electability,” the bullshit ouroboros pundit welfare program that keeps milquetoast white dudes on cable news talking to…
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A few things!
Only a few of them. I forgot I had a newsletter! Hello, people of the newsletter. In this edition you will find an update about my work, about what I have been reading, about what I have been sleeping to lately, and about my skin care routine. I DO WORK My day job has been…
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I Quit Facebook and So Can You
Even if it’s your job. Hello! Facebook is awful and it’s time for you to get out of there. Facebook is your buddy’s bad party that you showed up to because you missed the last party because you sort of had a sinus infection (turns out it was just a cold!) but there’s not really…
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It's No Bummers Sunday
There are no bummers in this email! Hello, friends! It occurs to me that the last couple editions of Home with the Armadillo have been big downers (righteous downers, but) and perhaps we are entitled to some nice things for a change. Here are some new (or at least new to me) things that I…
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Can We Please Make 'Cancel Culture' Happen
I promise we’ll only cancel the real rapists!!!!! Hey y’all. This edition of Home with the Armadillo is going to deal very frankly and polemically with sexual assault, abuse, and harassment, and there are some grafs below that I expect will be disturbing, triggering, and upsetting for some and maybe even many of my readers.…
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The Kids are Extremely Alright
I remember what it was like to be scared at school. Today’s kids know that nobody besides them is going to fix it. I was a high school freshman in Texas when Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered thirteen people — twelve students and a teacher — at Columbine High School in Colorado. It was,…
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Trump's Bible-Thumping Grifters
Well this is very exciting and terrible! I didn’t plan to send out more than one email a week, but Home with the Armadillo is my party and this is my first-ever byline in the New York Times, so I’ll make an exception. The gist: In their crusade against Planned Parenthood, Donald Trump and Mike…
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Raise Hell
Last weekend, a newspaper writer who asked me what I thought of the new documentary, Raise Hell: the Life and Times of Molly Ivins, told me he “always” thinks of me and “the pressure funny women are under to ‘be like Molly,’” and I was reminded anew of just how stuck we are in this…
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We are the daughters of the silent generations.
I really wish my computer would stop auto-correcting “Highwomen” to “highwayman.” I thought I was going to write my first Home with the Armadillo post about these Texas Republican dirtbags — Greg Abbott and Dan Crenshaw and Matt Schaefer and the whole mess of NRA ass-kissers and murder apologists who share their awful politics —…
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