You get used to it and just start blocking them out. The clinic (rightfully) takes a strong stance against engaging with the protesters. We want to create as calm of an environment as possible. And as I look at it, they’re not going to change my mind with a conversation and you’re not going to change their mind.…

It’s a gushy-coo 1950s song about worshiping your man and tailoring yourself to snare him and keep him happy, covered by Ani DiFranco and filmed as bridal drag. It’s so, so over-the-top treacly that, coming at the beginning of the movie, it sets you up to see that set of cultural expectations subverted and skewered.…

She was thirty. Which may not be thirty-five, but it isn’t twenty-seven.

I think the “basic bitches” in the opening was sarcasm on the part of Hogan. That at the heart of it a girl just dreams about her dream day, her wedding, and he basically had some girls sent over from Central Casting. I think he was doing it as high parody.

See also, Friends. At the launch of the show, at 26, Ross should *maybe* be on his first post-doc hoping like hell he can get hired in the labs at AMNH, not a suit-wearing curator in charge of exhibits at a major museum

why is it that everyone in the 90s looked so much older? im 29 now and still feel like JR looks 35 in that movie

Seriously! People who bring resentment and envy to these kinds of fictions are not going to enjoy it. They’re escapist fairy tales for crying out loud!

Yep. I had the soundtrack on CD and was also obsessed with Ani. Oh the 90s and college.
It kind of fits the theme of the movie because I can picture Ani singing it with sarcasm. I just hate the random army of blondes acting it out because they lack that sense of “This is all bullshit, right?”

In college when I first saw it, I thought she clearly loved the guy. Now when I watch it I can see that this is merely the normal adult sanity lapse that we all get when everyone around us is hitting milestones we thought we’d hit but are nowhere close to meeting. I mean, her breakdown is on steroids but still, I…

Did anyone else die a little bit inside realizing Julia Roberts’ character is only 27? Successful at 27! 27! Something else to cry about when watching this movie now....

DK just had a big purge of long-time members who happened to support Sanders. I wasn’t among them, but I had to remove the site from my usual circuit of websites I go to... I used to really like that place, but now it’s hard to tell the difference between people who actually want to fight Republicans, and people who…

The republicans pulled all kinds of parliamentary bullshit and rules bending when they were the minority to shitcan anything the democrats wanted to do. Do none of the Democrats know any of those rules? Surely there’s some fucked up rule that hasn’t been used in 100 years that they can pull just to fuck with them…

Would that be the Idiot population who didn’t listen to real plans from Clinton to bring back jobs to those areas? Did they just not listen because they only want coal jobs?

The GOP is that team that always cheats, plays dirty, flops, etc. but is the first to complain if someone gives back a 10th of what they give. They’ve now got the refs in their pocket. And even if there’s a call against them once in a while, they’re caught only 1/10 of the, so worth it. It’s well known that they…

As they rightly should, anywhere an idiot marches about with firearms. And there are a lot of places I think we would do the same over here. Sadly, there’s just as many where the patrons just might go to get their gun from the truck for fear of being out-penised.

The conspiracy is they will hold a ‘debate’ on a nothing bill to meet the bare minimum 20 hours of public review, and at the last moment substitute their atrocity which nullifies the prior ‘bill’ and would therefore not require additional scrutiny.

Maybe they should their own logic: If the rich would ONLY WORK A LITTLE HARDER, they would become richer. Of course that would never work because the rich have become addicted to “government assistance”

Sounds like his staff has been instructed to give “non-answer” answers so that he can embrace or reject the AHCA come re-election time, depending on which way the political wind is blowing.

I am blindingly furious about this, and have been for weeks. What makes me even more pissed is the lack of answers from my Senator’s staff (my Republican senator, that is - I live in CO and Cory Gardner is supposedly helping to provide feedback on/write the bill). I’ve heard a number of gems from his staff, including:

This is from a friend of mine. I think it’s pretty apt.