I agree in your reasoning about the athletic wear change.
But I disagree in your assumptions about showing skin. There is a big difference between “This is my body and I’m going to wear something comfortable and appropriate to swim and get a nice tan, regardless of who’s looking” and “I’m getting a fake tan and…

The five all have that vaguely thirty-ish Botoxed, fillered, veneered, extensioned, and rhinoplastied look.

I definitely feel like Kaine is in the Biden style of a VP. He’s affable, he’s a fighter, he started out his law career fighting for civil rights and pro bono work. Unlike most of the other options (which seemed likely to backfire [Warren, Booker, Brown, Castro, Franken]), this is one I’m genuinely excited about.…

Just a reminder that back in ‘08, when Obama picked Biden, everyone was like “That boring old white dude?” And now we’re all like UNCLE JOE PLEASE DON’T LEAVE US.

He’s not an exciting choice, but he’s a practical choice. I’m okay with this.

And since he’s moving from Florida, his left blinker will always be on.

While there he will frustrate the other aquarium dwellers by walking around at half the posted speed limit, insisting on going to the early-bird feeding time, and telling younger lobsters long, convoluted stories about how starfish used to act differently when he was molting up.

Jesus. Can lobster live that long? Why don’t I know this?

I’m not sure, this might be a case of better the devil you know than the one you don’t. I can only imagine the sort of fuckery Murdoch will get up to as the new head of the loudest voice in the ear of the crazy right wing.

Actually Gwen is naturally a bit bigger. She has been very open about her extremely strit lifestyle which didn’t always seem particularly healthy.

I see why you are a lonely guy.

Form of: A losing ticket!

Blunder Twin powers, activate!

Trump might actually be going all-in on a theocracy.

“People who know me well know I’m a pretty basic guy. I’m a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order.”

They’re an interesting hair duo, I’ll give them that. Bird’s Nest and the Iron Helmet. It’s like a superhero team with the combined powers of racism and homophobia.

Your hypothesizing about how women are “keeping it tight” or how softness doesn’t photograph well is as weird as it is judgemental. First of all JLo is also thicker than she used to be, as is what happens sometimes to middle aged woman. And sometimes, middle age women look “stringy” as you said of Madonna. Both…

Mariah, JLo, and Gwen Stefani. All 46 and all dealing with the consequences of aging in the world of Pop music. Mariah has the other two beat in terms of her album sales and number one hits. She is a legend. The number one soloist of all time. But she is also a little bit on the soft and chunky side and although I…

Yep. The gym is a scary enough place to set foot into when you’re uncomfortable with your weight. Add this to it, and lots of people will be scared away. The gym itself is intimidating, let alone worrying about whether you’re going to be judged, photographed, and displayed to the whole world while in the locker room.…

Here’s another ad, from the May 1988 issue of Working Mother magazine, for what I believe was the first “colorstick” test.