My guest is August but yeah, pretty much. Before Invictus Games, I think.

Eh, I’m in like the most liberal part of my state, in a big city. In more rural parts of the state - which make up a lot of area - men are pretty much the de facto lawmakers. When my current house rep was elected in a special election last year, she campaigned on the fact that she is a black, queer woman, and on…

In my state, several of our women Democratic legislators (and other bigwigs) have a foundation aimed at getting more women in the state legislature and other elected positions (it’s important to remember that for home rule states, like mine, a good amount of power belongs to locally elected officials like county…

There are plenty of liberal, progressive states that end up not looking as good as expected when you disaggregate their data by things like gender, race, and ethnicity.

Well now I am very jealous of your Lt. Governor. What state are you in? I’m in Georgia, and I’m actually not looking forward to the end of our current Republican governor’s term. For a Republican governor in the deep south, he has been quite moderate, and compared to his counterparts in neighboring states, he’s…

Oh, good. My state got an F. On the upside, my state rep is a woman, the rep in that seat before her was a woman, and my state senator is a woman (and I know both of them). At least my district is doing well?

Yeah, I can’t even with that statement. One of the reasons health care costs were so high were emergency room visits that could have been prevented with basic primary care access. Those unpaid emergency room visits were, ultimately, shifted to people with insurance, hence high cost of care and high premiums. Like,…

I don’t know what The Order is. I’m saying that Shannyn Sossamon was terrible in A Knight’s Tale (and pretty sure the token girl in AKT was the cobbler lady in their group).

I’m 33 now! I was 10 when it came out. Current me can appreciate the appeal of Gabriel Byrne, though he’s not my particular cup of tea, but as a kid, I was HORRIFIED. Trading young, pretty Christian Bale for some dude in his 40s seemed horribly cruel to young me.

But she was SO BAD in it. Her acting, or lack thereof, ruined scenes.

Paul Bettany also did it for me in this movie.

I mean, yes, I did watch that a lot, but it’s a very cute movie.

Awww, little baby Pey-Pey. Young me was fucking thrilled when he decided to stay.

Wait, Gabriel Byrne was inaccurately sexy? I mean, maybe now I can appreciate his appeal, but when I first saw this version of Little Women when I was like 10 I was like, WHO IS THIS FUCKING GRANDPA, JO, NO YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS.

Bless you for bringing Briony into this. That was my first thought upon reading OP’s question - Amy is the worst and Laurie was a dumb dumb for marrying her, but Briony really set the bar for terrible acts by siblings.

If I were that woman, I would still eat most of it. Only a little is actually touching the floor.

In college, I had a professor who would deduct a point from our total grade for ever adverb we used, and he hated the word “very.” I wonder if he’s watching Trump’s atrocious speech patterns and reliance on dumb - and often made up - words like very and bigly, and being like, “SEE! I TOLD YOU SO!”

You just cant say no to kittens. We have three cats all about 3.5 years old. We meant to get one, but then we couldn’t say no to kittens. We have recently entertained the idea of rescuing a fourth.

I’m pretty sure my boyfriend’s last prom was 1996, so that’s not old!

Same. I should dig out some pictures of mine. I get what they were going for, but the execution was a bit lacking.