Shit, Eleanor is one of my favorite girls' names right now. It has more than a little to do with that catchy Low Millions song...

I love it. I've never heard Morel before but I'm a big fan.

If I never got another blackhead, I would never again know the satisfaction of extracting a blackhead.

"We're supposed to be cooking and cleaning and studying and making a living and exercising and dieting and applying makeup and planning weddings and raising children and helping others and going, going, going."

I think the statement is "I can't figure out how to design anything that anyone would want to wear anymore."

Wow. What the hell kind of drug makes you think Igor!Edwardian is a good fashion plan? Bath salts meets Belle Epoque.

1. These people seem very familiar with what goes on in porn palaces and Tijuana.

Why isn't Parker Posey a superstar? Epic fail, world.

Just because you don't understand those words doesn't mean that we don't or that they don't mean anything.

Oh yes the monolithic culture of Africa!

You're operating under the assumption that it doesn't harm anything, so there is no risk. The reality is that there is harm - there is harm in continuing to celebrate the idea that white people should go to Africa and tell them how it's done.

Yeah, because a privileged American white lady co-opting a culture she knows little to nothing about, then turning around and writing a book that glorifies herself as THE FIRST female Maasai warrior, is extreeeeemely helpful to the native women, I bet. I'm sure it doesn't reinforce the "entitled American asshole"…

herpes-infected non-native primates

Why the fuck would you even want to go to a bar when you have a newborn baby! I do not get this at all. Have a wine at home like every other responsible parent. Jesus.

Yup, I commented elsewhere about this. I'm American and my fiance is Spanish, we live in NYC and he's pretty horrified by "family life" here in the states. In Spain, it's much more inclusive and the parents still have pretty full lives after their kids are born.

Yup. Reading this page is an eye opener into America.

Guys, unrelated but Hillary Clinton is in my town tonight and I'll be working with her tomorrow... my first day back from maternity leave. Feeling a little like having a nervous breakdown/ very very excited. That is all.

China wasn't the one attacked, so why should they be sensitive about it?

Yeah, and on the 6th and 9th of August no one in the US is allowed to have fun because that's when the atomic bombs were dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki.