Sounds like I’m the only one whose first thought was Rachel Maddow. Maybe even a beer named after an attack owl.

Yes, I had a job that required a lot of shipping to the same addresses. The USPS was the most likely to get it there without a lot of trouble. UPS and FedEx were the most likely to give me trouble because I looked up the wrong column on chart 57a instead of 57d.

Maybe we should tell them Michelle Obama would appreciate their efforts to get poor people to eat more healthy. That’ll change their minds.

The only times I’ve known the person in front of me was using EBT was when they were having problem with the credit card reader and said “Am I doing this right? It’s EBT.” which has happened a handful of times, but I wouldn’t have known otherwise.

FWIW, the New Mexico photographer did say that they were busy that weekend but only after offering their services and suddenly spotting a previous commitment when they found out it was a lesbian calling. Then when the plaintiff called back and pretended to be a different person, the photographer was free for that…

I live in the southwest and have used HBOGo to watch Game of Thrones in HD in its east coast time slot, instead of having to wait the next day (because the local time slot is after my husband's bedtime).

Sigh. I've recently given up on buying seafood at Trader Joe's because pretty much all of it comes from Thailand which probably means it's slave labor. I miss using their fish nuggets to make tacos but supporting slave labor is worse than not having fish tacos.

Actually, if you follow her writing (as someone says elsewhere in the comment thread most people who read her do so out of necessity and not because they enjoy her work) that site is constantly baiting the right wing nutjobs. They were like that before Nellie got there (Deadline is the site Nikke Finke started) and…

Yep, that's what I was referring to.

On a tangent, I go back and forth on Mellie. Sometimes when she's miserable I feel the schadenfreude of watching someone who takes the monster's side in a horror movie only to be eaten by that monster. But then sometimes I think she's like the wife in The Shining, feeling more and more trapped because she hitched her…

You're right, he's as dumb as Gretchen Carlson when she tells Fox viewers she had to look up "Congress" before her upcoming segment on Congress.

I do think that's it to some degree. I mean, dressing well is kinda gay to these people. Or it means you probably paid a gay man to help you with your clothes and managed to be civil to him the entire time, never once breaking into screaming "Out hellspawn!"

Maybe they'd feel better if the medical records also included a check box for "Slut" or "Not a slut" so they could know if it was a legitimate termination or if they could judge the patient's morals.

Also, life is unavoidably political for those of us who aren't straight, white, able-bodied, men. I wish it wasn't. That would be fucking awesome.

Some actors can rise above a bad production, some are only as good as their script, director and fellow cast members... and sometimes there are productions that's a good situation for one actor but not another. It's hard to say over just one movie.

I once lived down the street from a secular humanist church. I do wonder if there would be anything in the way of a secular humanist church doing anything.

I was tempted to snark and ask if this story ends with Virginia Thomas getting the apology she expected from Hill.

Reminds me of the time I went to a all-night diner with a couple of college friends in a bad move. We went there a lot and there was a server who... wasn't very friendly. He wasn't rude but it was always clear he hated his job. Anyway, this one time my friends were in a bad mood and were openly rude to him. We also…

My ex-roommate experienced this working as a server except these were people who would bring in a pile of change and take away coins if, for example, a water glass got below a 1/3 full level.

Ugh. I wish it were stupid stories like that. Nowadays when I check out the local news it's usually "A politician gave us this news tip they said is shocking and we are uncritically repeating it! They said its shocking so prepared to be shocked!"