You just compared human orphans to dogs and cats, as if the two issues are comparable. I just wanted to make sure you were aware of that.

I think Jolie & Pitt's reasons for being selective on the race of whatever child they might adopt next is a decent one... I've seen several articles in which she mentioned that it was important for Zahara to have a sibling who looked like her. Considering the kids they're already raising before adopting another isn't…

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It shouldn't cost anything to adopt a child. Seriously- as long as the parents pass all checks and go through whatever classes are necessary, why should they have to pay? It will cost the government way more to keep that child in care for 18 years than it would to cover the adoption costs.

It's because, particularly in white America, everyone stops, goes through their mental database of awful and dumb shit they've said, and wonder, "Have I done something like this?" which means they have to examine their own relationship to race and race politics and power of language.

You guys, I am conflicted about Veronica Mars. I just watched all 3 seasons for the first time this spring. I am disgusted by season 3 and the way it treats some really important feminist issues. The militant feminazis stage a fake rape to fan the flames and get the Greek system kicked off campus? Someone slips…

Some of the crappier things America has taught me in the past few days—

Paula Deen = entitled to a media empire because she seems nice

Minorities and the poor = not entitled to protection under the law in areas where they have systematically been disenfranchised

I feel like the people who are going on the Paula Deen cruise are the same ones who donated to the George Zimmerman defense fund.

You guys. Clearly we have to get someone on this cruise!

Team Iceberg!

"The two were en route to a club when Lloyd began texting people Hernandez didn't like, which is always worth shooting someone over. Workers in the park heard gunshots at about half past 3 AM."

I like the cut of your jib

THE HATE BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAT

My heart will go on, y'all, but I'm not so sure about my pancreas.

are you male? I trust you never ever walk around in public without a shirt on, never wear shorts in public and for all that is holy, don't wear flip flops because *I* am offended by hairy men.

I'm fat. Not chunky or chubby. Fat. I used to be so ashamed. Even at my thinnest, when I was working so hard every moment of every day to stay a size 18, I hated myself.

Then I got pregnant. I was so scared of what would happen to my body when it changed and OH MY GOD did it change. Stretch marks, sciatica, hair…

When female friends start conversations about how much they a) don't like their bodies or b) hate wearing Spanx, I now reply, "Fuck that. I grew a person and shot it into the world. I can do whatever the fuck I want." And it's true. I can.

I think a lot of these are beautiful, but I think the ones where they're standing there naked with their preteen boys are bizarre. Sorry, everyone.

Every time I read a Kumail Nanjiani tweet, one of my ova dies of sadness that it will not become his baby. I'm running out of ova.

Maybe this is me being overly sensitive, but I feel like maybe wait until tomorrow for your heterosexual proposal? I feel like today should be about gay people, their rights, their love and their ability to marry. (I think it's really sweet overall, just maybe bad timing.)