As a Chicago resident who originated from the East Coast, I’m perpetually amused when Chicago gets lumped in with minor cities by coastal dwellers. I’ll agree wholeheartedly that Chicago is certainly second to NYC, but that’s about the only city it’s second to in the US.

Chicago is trying to increase density in popular neighborhoods with the Transit Oriented Development (“TOD”) ordinance, which I like in theory, but a lot of people seem to have issues with it. I think most of it is NIMBY-bullshit but some of the complaints are valid. It’s definitely speeding up gentrification in…

I will give parents posting embarrassing/compromising photos of their children contemporaneous to the children actually being that age a half pass. You probably shouldn’t share that nude photo of your 2-year old with your 700 Facebook friends, but I can sort of understand how one might do so without giving it too much…

I accidentally got Halo Top (as a rogue substitution from an Instacart shopper) and it had the same issues. Chalky and just unappealing texture. It was also weirdly bland.

I’m pretty sure this is a Gawker troll that jumped shit to Jezebel, for future reference. The username and unnecessarily argumentative commenting style seem veeeeery familiar.

Eh, I get your outrage. But I also volunteer at a shelter, and if it makes you feel a little better about dummies calling certain breeds “hypoallergenic”, I will share that the low-dander/shedding dogs we get tend to get adopted extremely fast. Like on average I’d say within 24hrs of becoming available for adoption,…

With proper nutritional research/a nutritionist’s guidance if you’re fancy, it’s totally possible to be a vegan without taking more supplements than a B12 vitamin. Also, while supplements like ginko biblo aren’t regulated by the FDA, vitamin and mineral supplements definitely are regulated.

As far as I’m aware, in most states you don’t just get to pick what public school your kids go to, even with schools in the same school district. It’s normally based on your home address. The Chicago Public School System straight up fines parents who falsify their address to send their kids to the better rated CPS…

Dude, you’re getting trolled, this idiot created their account today.

Kidnapping is a federal crime if you transport the kidnapped individual across state lines. In general, the feds don’t have any jurisdiction over crimes that occur wholly within a single state unless the crime occurs on federal property.

This is well said. Even if nothing traumatic happened to this dude, he didn’t become who he is today in vacuum. At least some people in his life either let his disgusting views of women slide or actively encouraged them.

I mean, at least in the case of MJ and Chris Brown, being sexually/emotionally/physically abused as children and then subsequently surrounded by ass-kissing enablers was probably the main driver down the road to crazytown.

I think I started like 10 journals between the age of 12-16 that lasted about a week or two each. Until I would go back and read what was written earlier and then shred them in embarassment.

You probably wouldn’t get jumped on as much for this comment if the comment wasn’t just straight negativity with no context. Saying “I don’t like X” with no reasoning/context given on an article about X is going to piss off fans of X.

I’m not sure what spending that much time underwater does to a person.

I fully agree with you re: this particular sentiment:

I believe the majority of the public celebrity support for her has come through Twitter or other social media. Statements posted through a celebrity’s existing social media accounts tend to have a semi-candid/more genuine vibe. At least for me personally (for whatever reason) putting out a statement through your…

There already is a defined rule to staying mostly sober at parties- 1 drink/hour. That is a relaxed drinking pace that will keep most people sober enough to not be weird. My office holiday party lasts ~4 hours, I’m not drinking 2 drinks over 4 hours, unless I’m planning to get up and go the gym at 5AM the next day.

I’m always shocked by how many men just don’t moisturize. What is up with that shit.

This is both gross and yet oddly soothing? Weird.