When I first saw the header image, I though it was a pistachio layer, and now I want to try that.

Spy was cute, and he was awesome in Green Wing. (I never see any love for Green Wing.)

It’s telling just how much looks matter in our society that people would rather risk dying or living with a serious chronic condition than have a droopy face. (I almost don’t blame them because as a fat lady, I know stigma is real.)

They just can’t stop being mad that two Black girls have the audacity to be from a well-connected, high profile family and are living their lives.

I guess Rowan Atkinson needs another fancy car.

I’m so sad about it. Like, was it really that hard to just postpone the production until after the vaccine? It sounded like all of the actors really loved this show and would have given it priority when scheduling.

I hear the Attorneys General of New California and New Nevada are very interested in this case.

I remember hating a lot of the stuff in my American lit and British/Euro lit classes because I just couldn’t relate to any of it. Just because a teenager can comprehend a novel doesn’t mean it’s appropriate. (Looking at you, Madame Bovery, which I should probably re-read now that I’m 40.)

A significant part of the Secondary English education community has been pushing to retire the old white canon for literally decades, and it’s funny, the only pushback I got when I was a high school English teacher was from parents because I wasn’t assigning enough of the “right” books. I took a middle road of mixing…

I’m surprised he hadn’t contracted it already—I thought he had.

You know anything coming from “palace sources” is so far up the royals’ butts that it’s hard to take seriously. The hangers-on have made their whole lives conforming to and sustaining that institution they must be terrified that it could conceivably end in their lifetime because what will they do then?

The page turner is just :chef’s kiss:

I was like five or six when they got married, so of course I thought her wedding ensemble was perfect.

I hate them all, but it would be delicious if he never got to be king.

I’d ask if he rather his special needs children died rather than be special needs, but I’d be afraid of the answer. Ableism is a hell of a drug.

I agree with most of what you said, but the Gates Foundation isn’t perfect. Just because they’re big doesn’t mean they’re infallible. They’re big because they’re rich AF, not because they’re particularly effective. They’ve done a lot of good work in the health sphere, but their work in public education in this…

1. While this shouldn’t matter, she looks f’ng gorgeous in that video still from the new Disney+ movie. It’s nice to see old women being allowed to look their age and smokin’ at the same time. For such a long time, it seemed like they only let Helen Mirren do that. She’s conventionally pretty to begin with, but it’s…

On one hand, yes. Back when I was teaching full time, I dated a bartender for a bit who worked three nights a week downtown and took home more than me, most of it no tax. We both had to deal with a lot of messy humanity, and although his job didn’t require a masters degree, I didn’t have to deal with as much vomit.

Just came back from grocery shopping in my city which has been back in the red for months and there are still EMPLOYEES doing this. I feel so bad for grocery workers during this thing, but it also bothers the hell out of me so many of the employees at my supermarket don’t mask properly, ignore their own one-way…

How do you know that “spend it all on her kids” didn’t also include things like dental care and savings accounts for them? With a windfall like that, you can have a bigger Christmas splurge while also being “responsible.” A splurge for them might mean that her kids could get a game console and a couple of games which…