Some thoughts:

The sketch of that skeleton is weird as hell. It’s like the artist got halfway through and decided “You know, drawing skeletons is a lot of work, I think I’ve got enough to get the point across”

Sadly, it appears that Barr did exactly the job he was brought in for. Obfuscate, confuse, misdirect, stonewall, and just outright fucking lie because the average American attention span can’t be bothered with nuance and detail anyway.

“I am monitoring the situation in Venezuela very closely.”

Hey guys, I think Robert Mueller is pissed off.

Trump is precisely the reason the Fed was set up as an independent body.

it’s going to be similar when Homer Simpson said nuclear

You know the last time a president bullied the Fed into dropping interest rates to stimulate a robust economy it was Nixon. His decisions and the Fed have been blamed for the first significant postwar recession in 1972 and the rise of stagflation that crippled America, led to the rise of uber right neo-cons, created…

Yes!

Elaine:
Boys are sick.

“I have a daughter who is almost two, and literally since before she was born people have been telling me how she’ll be so cute in the beginning and then she’ll be a HORRIBLE MONSTER when she’s a teenager.”

Honestly some of the ‘mean girl’ panic always feels to me like its rooted in the assumption that girls - and only girls - are supposed to be ‘nice,’ so its some sort of hideous anomaly when they’re not. But all teenagers are experimenting with power and aggression, its just that everyone thinks its normal when boys do…

I experienced this in the most painful levels running for office. The sexism from men was off the charts, of course, but the cruelty from some of the other Democratic women was like nothing I’ve ever experienced. Everyone was jockeying for scraps because there were so few women in power. And there was this weird band…

Unfortunately that has not been my experience. I work in a female dominated industry (librarianship) and I swear I’ve seen-and been the victim-of the most vicious backstabbing and harassment from other females, above, below and at my level. My female boss did pretty much the same thing as your male boss when I…

Have you read The Casual Vacancy? One of the conflicts was between an Indian high school girl who got mercilessly bullied about her body hair by a white boy in her class. That part rang so true to me. I remember getting crapped on more by boys than by girls when I was in school.

The unspoken problem with Mean Girls/Queen Bees is that is focuses only on relational aggression by girls. A study showed that boys carry out 2/3 of relational aggression and girls 1/3. But we have a term for mean girls and not their more prolific male counterparts because of sexism. No one talks about this, I think…

I read a recent study that examined woman on woman bullying in the workplace. Conclusion? Women tend to bully other women in the workplace when there is lack of diversity in top spots. When you don’t see coworkers who look like you, you tend to think you’re “accepted” so when another woman comes along, you turn…

Well, that narrows it down.

After reading this article a whole bunch of my mum’s behaviour when I was a teen now makes sense.

In my experience, mean girl behavior really only happens when girls/women don’t have any other outlets to exercise power and ambition.