As a former Girl Scout I thought it was weird to make a loop that tightens when you pull on it and use that for a door pull. As opposed to a loop that doesn’t slip.

 Still, with Tulsa County seeing what its health director called “steep upward trends” of coronavirus cases, it’s a little worrying that the 74-year-old president, the oldest person to hold executive office, chose to gather his own super-spreader event. Is he OK? Is he trying to get out of a second term?

Exactly. This is a case where, sure, in an ideal world, the ideal amount of waste would be $0. Nobody’s in favor of errors and waste.

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The IRS–wait, let me sure I’ve got this—purposefully sent stimulus checks to more than 1 million dead people? [Politico]

lol Trump is going to run out of “SS” personnel by his 3rd rally. 

Oh, I also was bored and fell into a wiki hole, so I know why they went with the weird racist theme for Splash Mountain: the guy who did the character design for Song of the South also did it for America Sings, an attraction in the former Carousel of progress that was shutting down around the time Splash Mountain was…

This was my favorite ride. And when I took my kids to Disney for the first time not too long ago, it was their fave, too. So happy they’re making this change—In another win, I’ll also note that the “Imagineer” leading the switchover is a black woman: Charita Carter—the change has been in the works for over a year.

Oh let’s not go quoting the NY Post. 

Those ropes were not tied the same way that his was tied. they have the loop but not the wrapping thing above it that is found in nooses

You seem to be confusing the findings of the FBI with the findings of the New York Post, which I wouldn’t recommend. 

I have given birth to none. I have fostered seven in my home. I have financially supported two Africans throughout their childhood. I am auntie to none by blood, I am auntie to at least 10 otherwise. I have pics of Japanese, Ethiopian and Caucasian kids on my mantel right now. But I take great care NOT to elevate…

“You might have them stand and smash up the ice at tabletop height, rather than the ground or floor so they have better control over the tools.”

So Paltrow, asked about how quarantine is affecting her health by a magazine focused on health, talked about her health. How gauche.

Just a small aside to say that video of Britney is really sad. It seems to be from the period when she was really fragile and was still being pushed out on stage like a performing bear. She actually was a talented dancer and singer (even though they forced her to sing in a baby voice her entire career), but in this…

Yeah, I dunno. I guess there’s not really a way to prove or refute that. My immediate instinct is to say that no one feels compelled to heap too much praise on mainstream white voices right now. But maybe that’s the wrong approach because as you said Swift does have the ear of a lot of less informed or sympathetic…

OMG! Jezebel said something nice about Swift!

No, she lives in Tennesee. She has additional homes in other cities.  She wouldn’t be writing this “As a Tennessean” if she were a New Yorker.

Famous women: having realizations and speaking about them

Personally, I think we should probably put a moratorium on constructing any statues of white people for at least a couple hundred years, just to be safe.