My little hometown bookstore featured on Colbert’s Late Show! I love them so much and am very happy such a wonderful place was featured in such a thoughtful and entertaining way: https://t.co/vDLiYbuMR1
I don’t have kids, but I encounter them every day. They’re learning really important shit right now; it just doesn’t immediately equate to dollars so our education system lacks a measurement system...
@ec_schneider@politico I get your point, but I live in the rural NC county that always (historically) goes blue and no one ever talks about it, and I’ve been driving around surrounding counties for weeks with a Biden flag on my 1998 pickup, so let’s not get too down on the “rural” voters just yet.
That tiny blue county in the upper left corner of NC that no one will talk about on the news is in the heart of Appalachia #Elections2020#fuckyoujdvance
I can’t promise that I’ll respond with an offensively personalized “fuck you” if you contact me about college students and personal responsibility this week, but I also can’t promise that I won’t.
“I should know more about you before I make decisions based on your behalf” is a thing I just said, earnestly, to a tree in my house because I was thinking about planting it outside.
How I know I’ve gone full hermit: had to do deep breathing exercises all the way to town to prevent panic attack—not about the current undoing of the world but because I had to go somewhere far enough away that it required driving a car. Home is my habitat.