That photo of the underground pool is giving me anxiety. I feel strongly that there needs to be more traction on the marble staircase—wet pool feet and slick flooring are a terrible combination. I’ve always kind of wanted an indoor pool since as a child I visited a rich friend in Mexico City and got to swim in theirs…

For anything in written in the last hundred years my least favorite book is, “I’m an alienated modern middle to upper class (white) man, simultaneously propped up by and yet saddened by the very systems that were specifically designed to benefit me at the expense of all others. I harbor a secret self-loathing and despa…

The last 18 months have been incredibly weird, but this right up there with the weirdest.  Who does his PR?  Did he think of this all by himself?   

Thanks for that. I looked it up and apparently L Ron Hubbard thought that Werner Erhard/Jack Rosenberg stole his ideas from Scientology.  I didn’t know that warring cultists were a thing.

A number of years ago a friend suckered me into doing the level 1 course at Landmark Forum, which markets itself as offering “transformational” personal and professional development. I know now that it is based on the principles of Scientology and it is the most cult-like thing I ever ever encountered, or ever hope to…

I get that, but there are some things that a paper towel is wonderful for. One of my cats loves nothing more than yacking up hairballs on a carpeted surface (we are working on getting the floors replaced). I use a sponge and carpet cleaner for the deep cleaning portion, but for the initial gross stuff removal, it has…

Interesting! Do you have any other tidbits to share? I agree with you about these two, they have tons of physical chemistry. And frankly, it has been a long pandemic and I hope all of us get to bone a person who makes us feel alive. The fact that they are both older and have been through it makes it all the sweeter.

I’m ashamed to say that if I were ever involved in a major theft, this is what I would go down for. Little Debbies do indeed taste like sugar and wax, and that unbelievably fake texture fat that they are stuck together with (hydrogenated something or other?) and I love them in the same way I love candy corn.  They are …

The moment he turned around and said “I’ve got you ma’am” to the flight attendant melted my heart. But the rest of it was absolutely horrible. One of the saddest things about the last four years is how the ahole in chief taught Americans to openly hate each other and removed the shame that previously stopped most idiot…

Exactly.

doritosaretoosweet I’m not replying to you directly because I don’t want to bring you out of the grays, but if you’re not just trolling, please go to your local library to read about patriarchy and feminism or take a women’s studies class. You put lot of work into a post that built on deep misunderstandings that can’t…

I wish I could remember those details, but for more of a spiritual investigation into the energetics of gender, you could try David Deida and John Wineland—the former has a number of books, and the latter does lots of on line workshops. What I am thinking of was definitely retreat focused and was recommended to me by…

I hadn’t realized that.  But they still could have used those draperies that schools have been using forever. 

You are absolutely right and I thank you for being such a warrior.  

I looked up the principal and he looks exactly like you’d expect him to look. Pulling girls out of class because you want to confirm they aren’t wearing something slutty under their zipped jacket is so insane I can’t even comment. However, I will point out that this administration could have saved themselves so much…

Do you remember in high school they did that taster test where depending on genetics, you would either taste a disgusting bitter flavor or not? I feel like it’s sort of the same with the former guy. You’re either beyond disgusted and can’t understand why anyone would care for him, or you feel you’ve found something…

I can’t comment on the book, as I haven’t read it, but I did attend that TED Women event and heard Baldoni speak. Later that day, I had the opportunity to chat with him individually. He seemed to be trying to do the right thing. If memory serves, his dad was in the audience, and he said it was hard for him to talk…

True. But cults lead by charismatic leaders don’t usually survive the death of that leader. I think if we’d had Cruz, he would have done even more institutional harm, even though he is a charmless blob fish creature. But then again, they are both so awful that it’s like choosing between choosing between turds.  

I am pleased that I made the same calculation as Obama, that dumb and evil is better than smart and evil re: the former guy and Cruz.  

I fully agree with you. People think thoroughbreds are so fancy, but the truth is that they are the greyhounds of the horse world.  This industry produces thousands of extra horses every year--some make it to the track and work for a while, but almost all are eventually discarded.  Many are retrained to be riding…