I dare anyone to tell me they don't think of a butt...

Me too!

As depressing as it might sound, you might want to look into a Civil War trail tour. If you're a history buff, so much the better, but it would also take you through beautiful mountains.

Well, it's a mixed bag, like everywhere else. I recommend Savannah, Charleston & New Orleans if you like architecture & food. There are beautiful places in the mountains, too, but you have to do a lot more driving.

Please note that people also still say it with sincerity down here, too. Usually when extraordinary bad luck or misfortune has happened- I said it myself the other day, when a friend who'd just recovered from cataract surgery totaled her car. It's a very southern knee-jerk reaction: "Well, bless your heart!"

I think the main article must have popped up on Jezebel in the last couple of days. Recycling!

I'll have to read that- thanks! I suppose the world is too globalized now to have an instantly recognizable signifier for "don't tell me to cheer up, goddamit, I'm in mourning!", but I notice as I'm typing them that now we don't even use the words "in mourning" much any more. I think it's healthy and helpful to allow…

They did describe her as "troubled," which is, I suppose, self-evident.

I have two small tattoos- one on my wrist and one on top of my foot. They are both religious symbols- one (on my wrist) is a yin and yang; the one on my foot is the Sanskrit "om". Some would say this is cultural appropriation, but it's my skin, after all.

I think you're missing the point of tattoos a bit.

The idea of someone evaluating people by their hair color or clothes or whatever just screams "my asshole is puckered so tightly I haven't pooped since 1950."

Oh, here's a funny story:

...female friends who get a tattoo before the age of 25 has privately expressed her regret at some point. Those hearts and roses and filagrees and emblems don't mean what they used to.

That makes more sense- thanks!

Nothing says "my hands do not work for a living" like these nails.

Wait. What is "Hokey Cokey"? Is it like "Hokey Pokey?" Because that would be funny in that situation.

I guess I should have said I'd rather hear a vuvuzela than this person.

That is the most awesome story in the history of ever.

"Psst! Did you notice RBG was wearing her Full Quaker Badass collar today?!?! We are fuuuuucked!" -Thomas to Scalia, in my imagination

This makes me want to bust out my keffiyeh in solidarity with Aladdin and Jasmine. And Bart & Lisa!