Anyone can be a small-minded, frightened bigot. What really knocks my socks off, though, is when people from an oppressed or stereotyped or 0therwise-imposed-upon 'minority' group is completely unable to see the obvious analogy between their personal context and that of peoples within similarly oppressed groups.

Apparently he did not!

White and RICH. The latter is especially important in this case.

The only thing Piers Morgan could do that would surprise me is show evidence of integrity, backbone, maturity, or compassion. In the meantime, I will continue to willfully ignore his further adult-baby shenanigans.

Thanks for the helpful explanation! Yes, my venasections usually last only an hour, and I am very lucky to be in a top-notch facility with great nurses, so your response makes perfect sense.

I get regular venasections and normally ask for a butterfly needle, as I find it more comfortable (some nurses are fine with it, others not, but I generally ask). Never had any problems - would the fact that I've giving rather than receiving make any difference?

I am really disappointed when ANY adult, much less an adult with the privilege of a public platform, acts like a fucking child. Way to chuck all your toys out of the pram, Piers, you're a real inspiration.

OMG I LOVE THIS MOVIE. I also sometimes say that I've had a few tee many martoonis. No one's picked up the specific reference yet, but if they ever do, I will give them a hug!

Oh, god damn it. SIGH. I just stopped halfway through reading it. Thanks, I GUESS, for the link.

That was my point... It's a fucked up ad campaign that invites people to be titillated and entertained by issues that are real and dangerous. It's not clever and it's not funny.

LOL domestic violence stalking mental illness LOL

I thought about Smash, and that cheeky grin. I ultimately decided I'd rather be buddies with him, because he would be too much of a serial heartbreaker, and it's hard to take him seriously, however fine he might be.

I would like to solemnly second the motion of 'my bed.' Were I dying and permitted to submit a sympathy-fuck to the Make-a-Perverted-Wish foundation, it would def involve Matty Saracen (oh god i love him) and Rigs (oh god i love him too). Oh, but Vince and Cafferty, later-season additions but so wonderful! …

Hmmm. I still want to quit, but that's a good argument for keeping a single in my purse as jerk-repellent.

Even more insipid, formulaic and contrived than anything Katherine Heigl has ever done. - The New York Post

Totally fair - the 'Western' thing was just an attempt to not make a vast, blanket generalization about other cultures with which I'm not familiar. When I wrote that, I was thinking specifically about friends who have been to China and been called 'fat,' but found out it was either in a complimentary or purely…

Why do we (Westerners, esp. Americans) hate fat people so much? That is an honest question I am turning over in my head right now. Because we associate it with laziness and greed? We fucking PROMOTE greed in other contexts. Fat used to be -and in other parts of the world, still is - associated with wealth. We…

I'm the same! I used to read on on my swing and whilst rollerskating around the house when I was a kid (I had a loop through the kitchen, into the front hall, through the living room, and the dining room - I always found it relaxing, going round and round). I love rollercoasters, turbulence, and wave-rocked boats,…

Smoking is disgusting, no one should do it, etc.

I think there is sort of one - I don't participate on GroupThink, so am not tuned in. But I do recommend this book... It's a re-imagining of the Amanda Knox story, about an American college student on her year abroad in Argentina, accused of killing her roommate. It's told through the perspectives of Lily (the…