What no one ever remembers is that Operation Protective Edge was launched because the Palestinians in Gaza had built tunnels from Gaza to locaions under synagogues in Israel, and were planning to storm those synagogues en masse come the next Rosh Hashana (Jewish New Year) and murder as many civilians as they could.

(Shrugs) I’m a creative. My destiny was always to perform, in one way or another. I’m not sure there’s anything wrong with humans having that need, or getting it met in the form of upvotes. But it’s like anything. Some subset of the population will overdo it. Maybe those Tide pod eating teens need to be enrolled in a…

I tend to go with “that’s awesome, good for you” when praising someone for sobriety. Seriously guys, way to go.

And...I think eating Tide pods may also get kids high. Not on soap/poison. On attention. There is a little thrill from getting likes. Heck, I’ve started posting screenshots of the CAD drafting and…

But sometimes harm happens when there’s no one to blame.

I agree. I think this was a useful story for the public to hear, because BOTH PARTIES FUCKED UP. Ansari should have noted the lack of enthusiasm, backed up, and tried some old fashioned verbal communication. “Are you into this? What do you want to do?” But “Grace” clearly hadn’t made up her mind about whether she…

I can sort of keep the bleakness at bay by being so blown away by the sheer talent involved — acting, costuming, sets, directing, writing, plot, it is all 100% on point. And Offred/June does deal with the situation with a grim internal humor, which helps too. And even then I had to pause and cry for a good five…

Gallantry is also a euphamism for “boys will be boys” type behavior. My French isn’t good enough for me to be certain of this, but it sounds like a very French way to put it to me. It just doesn’t translate quite right.

The initial letter, published in Le Monde on Tuesday, stated that there is a difference between “clumsy flirting,” “gallantry,” and rape, and suggested that the current discussion of sexual harassment and assault conflated the two, in a way that seemed to dismiss all.

Thank you for making this point. We should all be careful not to assume someone is unhealthy because of their girth alone.

However, in my experience, when a person is heavy but healthy they are usually exercising. And they look healthy. You can see the muscle tone under the fat. I don’t see a whole heck of a lot of…

My car was totaled recently, which put me in the position where I could get myself an electric vehicle. And I did not. Because I live in an apartment without a garage, and I had no way to charge an electric vehicle. In my area, we’re lucky to even have one designated parking spot, but we have two cars. So one is…

I am thirty four years old, and I never learned how to put on makeup properly. My mom was not terribly into cosmetics, I was the school pariah so I had no friends to learn with/teach me, my eyesight is so bad that until I started wearing contacts I could not see well enough to do my own makeup apart from lipstick…

Well, the silver lining is that George St. George has just handed Iliza at least ten minutes of golden material.

Ugh, I know! And whenever I start my car and my phone connects automatically, it tries to start playing the damn thing! I’ve heard the first 20 seconds I don’t know how many times. I will never listen to the rest. I switch over to Spotify or a podcast as quickly as I can.

It became clear within the first thirty seconds that The Greatest Showman is “historical” in the sense that Moulin Rouge is “historical”. The subject material is romanticized to the point of being a fairy tale, and certainly not something to be taken seriously in the slightest. With that mindset, I enjoyed the fuck…

Do all flagrant racists have that tight, asshole-pucker of a mouth?

I feel like I’m looking at art. Nothing so self-indulgent and hideous could possibly be real.

Better this man and every similar monster spend the rest of their lives in prison than have one more innocent person die on death row.

Wow, so many comments here sound so medieval. While I don’t have an ounce of pity for Charles Manson, it is difficult to be related to someone like that. I can’t judge the grandson for deciding to reach out to Manson as part of his coping with that, and I can’t judge him for discovering that he liked his grandfather…

I only did it because I was sitting around buzzed with my husband and a good friend, and we just shit-talked and laughed over the whole thing. I should have warned you that’s the proper way to watch one of these hot messes.

It’s not much of an impassable ice wall if a mere plane can fly over it. Must have hurricane force winds circling the edge or some such bullshit...

OMG, I seriously watched one of those flat earth videos, and their entire argument is based off of a poor understanding of how video camera lenses work...