That “sucking the tears back and faking a smile to get on with life” scene? It was perfection.

You’ll find it easier being accepted as Irish than if you moved down from up north, IMO. White southerners are often heavy on the Scots-Irish end of the scale. Frankly, I would enjoy Kennesaw much much more than Atlanta, but I’ve worked off and on in Atlanta for years and I find the traffic monstrous. (Side story,…

Thank you. Folks in another thread are talking bi-polar, BPD, NPD...the folks I’ve known with those issues have all been smart and some calculating as freaky hell. Trump seems dump as a stump, but narcissistic and easily led. Just flash a suggestion up beside his reflection in a mirror and voila.

When I saw that Devos had contributed $90,000 to Rubio, I knew it was a lost cause, but he’s truly, godawfully worthless. He’s the welfare case that everyone that rails against welfare cases should actually worry about: a congressional taker.

That’s a fake laugh.

Some of the very best make up I’ve used was some Mary Kay stuff my mom gave me as a teenager. I miss it sometimes.

The seal holds everything in there until she goes to the bathroom, when the seal disintegrates.

Jesus Christ! (Come get your followers.)

I’m actually surprised they haven’t somehow linked trans issues with abortion. They’ve proven they can bend logic.

I’m impressed with your optimism.

That, and if our salvation is expected to come from US CEOs, I’m headed to a survivalist shelter forthwith.

This is a tough one. I thought we were well off when I was growing up because we were better off than the folks that lived around us. What I realized over time was that my mother’s full time job was making my dad’s paycheck stretch to cover all six of us. They both grew up during the Depression (the black and white…

Similarly, since I grew up in a poor part of Appalachia, I knew we were better off than a lot of our neighbors, so I assumed we were “well off”. I knew the only rich people were the tourists in our area who came to golf or ski. I had no idea that we were lower-middle-class until I met another teenager on a trip who…

And definitely listen to her latest interview on NPR. She’s so damn funny and charming.

This is standard HR CYA (apologies to any HR folks on here. I’ve worked with good HR folks, bad HR folks, and WTF HR folks). One of my mom’s coworkers had been heavily reprimanded for something she did not do. My mom was an eyewitness, so the coworker asked mom to go to HR and tell them what she saw, since this was…

Some of the coats were doable, but the hats and that “latchkey kid” necklace was just a no.

Horrifyingly, he seems to think that leaking information about possible unethical or illegal behavior is WORSE than the actual unethical or illegal behavior.

“It’s rigged. It’s rigged. We’re gonna win.” He told us the truth then, didn’t he? EVERY time he accuses, he’s deflecting the blame for something he himself did. It’s a pattern he started in childhood and continues to this day, because he’s the absolute embodiment of arrested development. (Not to sully the show.)

Justified is a good show anyway, and I think Walton Goggins steals every scene he’s in. But there’s one scene in a later season where Olyphant steps out a door shirtless that turned me into a cartoon wolf. Seriously, the man has mouth-watering obliques.

Michael Keaton or GTFO.