Consider giving Nars the flick. They now test on animals.

“It’s of no use to anyone outside of marketers and sociologists though.”

Most of the Gen Xers I know actually look favorably on Millennials. We remember what it’s like when your generation is unfairly maligned, since we were supposedly the “slacker generation.”

The cat’s 24-hour product diary:

Y’all I was SOOOOO impressed with this crossover! That read was stupendous. And there was a scene in which four black people were sitting in a room having a professional conversation and the extraordinary ordinariness of it (in life, but never on screen) got me teary-eyed.

Total bummer about SA. He always presented as a good guy, and a progressive good guy, at that. Ugh. Still not burning my autographed books, sorry.

Had to hear this song after I saw your comment. Remembering my late cousin who loved dancing and singing along to songs like this. Thanks for the good memory!

I bet the toy robot is sassier too.

The first 30s of “No Diggity” > Meghan Trainor’s entire existence.

Starring for complete accuracy.

It’s a little more nuanced than just condescension. The origin story of the word sums it up pretty well. A female academic coined it after a man at a dinner party summarized her own book to her, having only read the review, and wouldn’t listen to either she or her friend when they insisted to him that he was talking…

Goddammit, if Schoolhouse Rock was good enough for me (when it was already 20 years old), it’s good enough for The Youth of Today™.

why don’t you tell us?

Ugh, just ugh. A male colleague asked me the other day if there was anyone I’d be surprised about if they got outed as an awful person via #metoo. I said no, then considered, then said “well, maybe Mister Rogers.” While on a logical level I really won’t be surprised about anyone, some of these are more disappointing…

My kids have a toy robot that will record a few words and then play them back autotuned to music. That is what this song sounds like.

She is as sassy as an aubergine.