I know, it’s awful.  But I keep thinking ahead to a beautiful summer day with the entire city celebrating.  We’ll get there.  

That’s why the ambulance sounds are so upsetting here in NYC. We are used to a ton of city noise, but that is dimmed so all you hear is the sirens, particularly first thing in the morning. Fortunately, I am hearing fewer every day.  I’m heartened that the curve is flattening here.  

I don’t think I’ve ever seen her in regular daytime “natural” makeup, as would have been appropriate for a serious topic. It’s always a smokey eye and, as Cousin’s Matthew noted below, soap opera level pancake face and all the trimmings

I have checked into this and unfortunately the fires don’t burn hot enough.  So instead I have decided that I would like my body to be eaten by sharks.  

So sorry for your loss.  

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Those are very upsetting socks. I didn’t see the toe swastika at first. Just the separate toe part was disturbing enough.

I honestly read the headline as “socks” and was really looking forward to an article about crazy socks breaking senatorial protocol, or perhaps socks worn as a signal.  Am very disappointed and would love it if you could rewrite from a sock perspective.  

So true.  I flipping love a ham hock and have many memories of doing this with my grandma’s greens.  I haven’t ever been able to get them the same way.  Some of my auntie’s can do it, but they have switched to smoked turkey wings (sob).  

I also bought extra tampons!   It doesn’t seem like many other people are though as there was no shortage.  I love your bidet idea.

Me too.  Sanders irritates me to no end.  I don’t see why I should be expected to vote for someone who has a long career of no accomplishments (other than keeping an office).  

Totally agree. On a slightly separate note, much of the “vegan” clothing and accessories trend annoys me as a lot of it is just plastic that will be thrown out next season. I have had the same snakeskin bag for almost 10 years because it is gorgeous and very well made, so I can keep using it, and the leather spa can…

I’m obsessed with Victorian snake rings! They’re often not that high gold count (9k) and the gems are often semi-precious, rubies and sapphires in the eyes being the most common, so they often aren’t _that_ expensive as real jewelry goes, although of course you can find fancier versions. It’s nice to see a nerdy histor…

Sorry, spotted my typo too late, “which turns out to be about her coven struggling with power doled out at the whim of the patriarchy”

Wow! That was one of the most joyful performances I seen in ages. There was a literal symbol for women in the middle of the flipping Superbowl! The dancing was sexual but not male-gazy and the political messages were spot on. Those ladies were show themselves off.

bless your heart--you are wonderful!

Here’s the thing though, the effect is still a huge number of people saying “shut up, go away” to a woman, and only a relatively small number of them are doing it because they truly believe the situation warrants it. The rest are just reacting with gut-level sexism and using some convenient argument for why it’s…

Are you sincerely asking? If so, there is a huge difference between the way men and women are treated when engaging in public discourse. “Shut up and go away” is leveled at women far more frequently than men, to the extent that pretty much every woman in public life battles troll armies whose sole aim is to get them…

I don’t think that’s what is happening though.  She has decided to do a docuseries (I guess?) and made a few comments about Bernie.  There is no cult of Hillary supporters going around trashing Bernie.  If you look at this comments stream, it’s 90% against Hillary even showing her face.  If he wins the nomination,…

Yes, I do recall the enormous wave of misogyny to which she was subjected, to which Sanders will not be subjected. To me, the answer to a political problem is not to tell a woman to shut up and go away, which is the gist of so many commenters here are saying.  You can literally feel the hatred.