Are you kidding? Those women are HUGE! I know it looks like a fireplace, but that's the Chrysler Building behind them!

It cracks me up when breast size is treated as an accessory- like, "the Marilyn Monroe-type is in this year!" or "The flapper is back!"

I agree! I don't think it's any coincidence that in the US, both food production and human death have become "secret" things that most people don't see for themselves. I hope that the hospice and local food movements are signs of the beginnings of a permanent shift away from these "vacuum-sealed" lives we lead. How do…

The 5-4 "no" vote does seem to be equivalent of a *shrug* coupled with "Eh, you never know. Could work."

The health issue is perhaps what spurred early humans to bury their dead, and it certainly continues to have health implications.

Because even early humans recognized the need for care of the dead, for the sake of the living. Civilization isn't 100% great all the time, but this is a social rule that works. A world in which people are treated like "meat" when they're dead is one in which they're treated like "meat" when they're alive.

Me too! In longhand, even! The bummer was that nobody really wrote one for me. There were hilarious unintended consequences- like a bratty little sister finding one and reading it aloud to our entire youth group (little bitch!), and some, shall we say, interesting attempts to co-opt the concept for actual high school…

I think Oompa-Americans deserve to be treated with dignity and respect, not turned into objects for your fetishization! #yesalloompas

Maybe they could just afford to lose a few back then.

I am not a helicopter mom. Seriously- free-range kids all the way!

"In the Pleasure Groove." I found it charming and honest, the tone very sweet and conversational. It's not meant to be great literature or anything, but it was really nice to find out what this young man (just a kid, really!) was really going through when my friends and I were obsessing over he and his buddies.

They were my first concert ever back in (checks clay tablet, date obscured). I was tempted to go to one of their reunion dates, but without the same crazed high school friends around me, would I even enjoy it? I suspect I'd just miss them. If I could gather them all up and take them with me, that would be EPIC. But…

I had two cheerleader friends that laid claim to John (they laughed about it, but I bet the gloves would have come off if the opportunity arose). The quirkier among us loved elsewhere: I was drawn to Nick's deep voice and Bowie fixation, one loved Simon's goofy dance steps and crazy lyrics, and another just wanted to…

She would be scared if she knew death were coming? Is it optional?

Crazy trivia moment: one of the founders of Juicy Couture is married to John Taylor of Duran Duran.

Yeah, the party of "personal responsibility" that never fails to vilify those who apply for disability or end up in jail and "blame the system" for their problems gets nothing but side-eye from me when they suddenly find sympathy in their hearts for one of Hillary's "victims." Yeah, sure.

So happy to be part of your world, Kat!

I am not defending this guy. At all. But I'm not sure the pro-ana associations are as well-know amongst non-social media users (or professional media folks). I can easily imagine my older FB friends posting weight loss photos with this word or hashtag if they lost a bunch of weight, clueless about Twitter or Instagram…

The next time some comments section derails and goes in a bizarre direction, I will have to remember to call it "going full rainbow cake."

Oh, yeah. There's no possible way that thing could hurt anyone. -_-