It doesn't make sense to have a political party that idealizes a social structure that is unobtainable for large portions of the population, but then also offer no support to get them there.

1. If she did pass out from drinking, she sure couldn't consent to sex.

Married at First Sight enlists a team of experts — a sexologist, spiritualist, psychologist and sociologist — to evaluate a group of singles in order to determine which individuals will make the best romantic partners.

Of those they selected, most dropped out after learning they had to marry a total stranger, which left them with fifty singles.

I wonder if she was living in her car, or if her house didn't have air conditioning, and she was in the Walmart to cool off. It doesn't excuse what she did (nothing can), but I can't think of another reason to spend 13 hours in a Walmart: what on Earth would you DO for all that time?

Sadly, it doesn't surprise me that many sex workers "buy in" to these destructive narratives. When I identified as trans at a GLBT center, I received so much hostility from the gay men there that one of the counselors had to stage an intervention. One guy got right in my face and said "You're the reason my dad hates…

Apologies to anyone disappointed that the show is not literally a baby battle royal, where chubby babies still struggling with motor skills grapple helplessly with one another.

the NY Times headline is "Health Law Violates Corporate Religious Liberty, Justices Say."

That's a good point. I just hate that her apology sounds like all the "mistakes were made" apologies from selfish politicians and celebrities when she's probably legitimately sorry.

But pi has infinitely many digits; you'd never finish!

If it really was the pageant's error, I'd think they could have let it slide (unless another contestant had raised a challenge, which I didn't see mentioned here.) Admittedly, I don't know how strictly rules like this are generally enforced.

I wish she had been more direct in her apology: something like "I'm sorry I got drunk and attacked my nephew." Right now, it's just boilerplate. However, I can't recall her doing anything like this before, so hopefully this will be a one-time lapse.

I always thought spornosexuals were people who were aroused by Bea Arthur's character on "The Golden Girls."

She's a modern-day Typhoid Mary: someone who flat-out refuses to acknowledge very basic facts, and so causes immense harm to others.

Kanye has a huge ego and a lot of talent. I can see him looking at this as a challenge to overcome.

I say this to myself at least once a week (seriously). It's my snarky way of making peace with the success I've had, while acknowledging that even if life were a meritocracy, I'd still sleep in on weekends.

Very interesting. It makes sense that EMTs would need to wait until the scene was declared safe, since no one knows precisely what is happening there (except the caller, although maybe not even then).

This social media outpouring makes it clear that some men pose a real threat to the physical and psychic welfare of women and girls. But obscured in the public conversation about the violence against women is the fact that some other men are more likely to protect women, directly and indirectly, from the threat of…

The best screen name I ever saw (at Bianca's Smut Shack, c. 1997): MacDaddy Thundernuts.

I remember a Kids in the Hall sketch where one of the kids played a fashion designer whose designs for the "average women" included a metal spike through the head, and shoes filled with broken glass. "I love the pretty women," he said, "but I hate the ugly women."