Looks like nobody's recommended Broadchurch yet, so I guess it's up to me. Really engaging story and characters, plus (bonus) David Tennant. There's an upcoming US version called Gracepoint that also stars David Tennant, which will hopefully be as good.

Tragicomically, the ban seems to mostly be against wearing headdresses associated with plains tribes. They're certainly present in Canada, but they're pretty different from the tribes that actually live in BC. And yet I don't see anybody ripping off spruce hats or button blankets, which kinda points out the sheer…

My fave is the day after one of the three times they had sex, where she says, "I still feel tender from last time." If he's complaining that she didn't put out when it sounds like it would have been unpleasant and possibly painful for her to do so...probably he's not the most considerate partner. If my choices were…

Exactly! Like all those white people in the Kansas legislature right now. Sigh.

Bless him. I was terrified of it when I was little, and have refused to watch it since. As in, I'm pretty sure I would still refuse to watch it now. Same with ET.

Yeah; the responsible thing for him to do would have been to break up with her completely, rather than string her along like this.

There are certainly people out there who just are not monogamous, which is fine. It's when they date monogamous people that there are problems. And it's very, very hard to go from a…

Ima be pedantic and suggest that that's probably a brush pile—where you toss branches and whatnot when you're clearing out shrubbery. So, basically, it's like an ex shrubbery. A late shrubbery. The brush pile formerly known as shrubbery.

I'm not sure it's meant to be an excuse for Solange, so much as an excuse for Jay-Z. "Oh, he didn't say or do anything to provoke her, she just lost her shit because she's a nasty drunk." Truth is, though, 1) none of us knows what was going on prior to the fight, and 2) there's not really any excuse for violence. …

Possibly. But I doubt any article Pippa has ever written (or will ever write) will contain the phrase "shitting all over the island".

I'd be interested to see if there are groups for whom that isn't true. I've discussed with my parents the possibility of moving home, but that's with the intention of doing more of the housework while I'm job hunting, and pouring quite a bit of labor into our farm. Hell, the first few days of my visits to my parents…

To everybody commenting on why people are calling them "mitters": there are people for whom workplace gender roles are so deeply entrenched that the word "babysitter" is actually gendered. Kind of like how people will specify "male nurse". It's sad, and hopefully if more men start working as sitters, it'll go away.

Hi Jezzies.

So, about a month ago I broke up with a really wonderful guy. He's smart, funny, interesting, handsome, made me feel like the sexiest woman in the world, and stood by me through four months of recovery from a minor but persistent concussion (not the most fun I've ever had). The problem is that for about 5…

Um, aside from that guy flaking, that sounds like an amazing evening. I think it's the Framboise that really cinches it.

Sorry to hear about the guy, though. Been there myself, and it's no fun. Kudos to you for milking a bright side out of it.

Ugh. One of my friends is one of the most athletic human beings I know (does mountain biking, yoga, used to swim and play rugby professionally)...and happens to also pack a little bit of extra weight because he just has that kind of metabolism. It grosses me out that there are people who would look at him and assume…

I wouldn't be surprised by that at all, and I'm an omnivore. I continue eating animal proteins because I was taught that animals are an important part of any ecosystem, and that agriculture should mimic healthy wild ecosystems as much as possible. So, basically livestock production goes hand in hand with sustainable…

I would say Black artistry has been treated similarly. Elements of supposed Black identity and culture are exploited in the music industry with no benefit to the originators of the music and no understanding for what historical and cultural realities have made that music valuable for Black communities.

Makes sense. I wonder if in the case of music it's more of a fraught issue, since basically the entire history of American music is based on the innovation of African American musicians. Banjo's a traditional bluegrass instrument, but it's derived from African instruments. One of the main features of rock music is…

Apologies if my privilege is showing, but is there ever a genuine, respectful way for a white musician to render hip hop or R & B? I ask as a white musician who does mostly blues and country. I could see how it would be sort of entitled and insensitive, given I don't think black musicians generally enjoy the same…

Both Gillian Anderson and John Barrowman talk about picking up American accents as kids growing up in the States because they got so much shit for their native accents at school. Within the UK, one of my professors talks about switching from an Australian accent, to a posh accent, to a Manchester accent as his family…

It's one (well, two) of the reasons why some women wear bras, definitely. A lot of women with smaller breasts who don't need much support wear bras for this reason—but these are women who also can get away with buying less expensive bras. Once you get into larger cup sizes, there are differences in the level of…