I agree with the Heritage Foundation on healthcare reform. I mean Obamacare is the implementation of the healthcare reform they floated in the 1990s, so they're on board with that, right?

Yes. Shit, if the clerk had just said "nobody's asked for that before, I'll let the manager know you're interested," and the manager followed up with "there isn't the demand to stock Hanukkah crafts," this woman would have gone home and found what she wanted online. This is just gratuitous stupidity and nastiness.

Call me a cynic, but - and I know a diverse range of conventionally beautiful images is progress over one look - I see the exploitation of money making opportunities here. It's always baffled me why companies didn't want a piece of the plus size market for the sheer sales potential, so no surprise that they're into…

I would hope that even Joanna Coles would acknowledge that, while she wants young women reading Cosmo, it's a disaster if they're reading it for their news coverage.

With you 100%. And even if 'netiquette is ok with it, it's just plain unkind. People worth being with do their best to be kind.

Fuck everything.

My sense is that people blame the Republicans, and the Tea Party and John Boehner in particular. Polls seem to bear that out, although polls are only semi-useful. In terms of the echo chamber I live in, it skews liberal, but my centrist and moderate friends are thoroughly disgusted with the Republicans, and my…

I'm not completely clear on all the procedural rules for this. It's bananas, though - and the sunk costs fallacy is going to kick in IMO.

My first reaction was "the electorate can't possibly be that stupid."

Well, there's always that element. But this is not only strategically stupid, it's tactically stupid. I know they have some fantasy that the longer this goes on, the more people will blame Obama and not them. (Which is cracked, as far as I'm concerned.) But it looks like the most likely ending from this will be…

Honestly, sometimes Occam's Razor seems to dictate that the simplest explanation IS that they're all secretly Team Hillary. It strains credulity that so many people can achieve so much and get elected to such important positions while being SO stupid.

Marie Antoinette was the first thing I thought of, too. Isn't it just too too adorable to be poor for a little (very little) while? It's kind of thrilling, and it really isn't so bad, I don't know what they're all whi - thunk.

You must admit, #wecantstop #poppinhashtags is a pretty good comeback (further down the thread.)

That's good in the long term, because you just know some pointy-haired boss would then expect them to increase total output by 25% as soon as the furlough ended.

She culturally appropriated you too?!?!? I am almost jealous, and will you autograph my copy of In Touch when they tell your story?

That's what I found the weirdest about all of this. I confess, I had never heard of it before Miley Destroyed The Universe on the VMAs, so I went to YouTube and saw videos of people actually twerking, which, while not my cup of coffee, is pretty neat in the same "wow, the human body can do that?" way that gymnastics…

I mean if he's really taking one pill a day, he probably doesn't need pharmaceuticals to detox. Good food and exercise and sleep and lots of talk therapy, coupled with no access to said pills, is probably exactly what he needs.

That's a perfectly cromulent usage.

Is that a young Kim K?

"Empower" is being used here in its lesser-known sense of "patting women on the head for following your directions."