Gerrymandering + Koch money + Supreme Court failure to uphold Voting Rights Act + 9/11 + our country’s failure to reconcile with the legacy of racism + the eternal laziness of youth

This is reading WAY too much into things, but I just rewatched that scene in preparation for the premiere, and it reinforced my suspicion from the first time I watched it that he isn’t dead.

At this point I think we could nuke ourselves into oblivion and the planet would be like fucking thank you.

Yep. I won’t go so far as to say that Gaia is sentient, or that any of this is part of a larger cosmic plan (not saying you are, either, but some people definitely go there), but we overfished the oceans and bred beyond what the planet can sustain, and now it seems really plausible that in the next 30 years, 1/7 of…

The plot lines on that show are bananas. “It’s been three whole months since you got something right that literally everyone else was fucking up. Gawd, we are so tired of this new thing you’re insisting you’re right about. Why are you being so meeeeeeeeeeean?” It’s like if Homeland were written by a computer program…

They don’t sell a 36A for the majority of their bras. If I have one more earnest sales associate swear that a 34B is “the same” as a 36A, I will lose my mind. They make those two different sizes for a reason - the 34 band is not wide enough for someone whose ribcage measures an actual 36", and it pinches. I can get by…

Fucking thank you! I look for racerback bikini tops because I hate the pull of weight from a halter tied around my neck, and I want straps that aren’t going to fall off my shoulders, but I don’t necessarily want to cover up my upper-body. I love my stomach area - it’s not perfect, but it’s damn sexy, and I don’t mind…

Joey Biden respectfully disagrees.

I’m super disappointed that his true identity was squashed into an update rather than meriting its own article. This entire scenario reads to me like he was looking for his next victim to stalk and harass. How many phone numbers and email addresses did he acquire from self-described feminists before he was outed?

I’m with you. This guy needs to be on a watchlist. The woman he identified and complained about, Jessica Valenti, is the one who wrote the online harrassment article that was circulating through many people’s newsfeeds last week. There is zero chance that was a coincidence, and my gut says there’s a near-100% chance…

You know what, I just thought long and hard about how that fanfiction would go, and I would not only read it, I would cherish it. Unironically and deeply, forever and ever.

Ugh ugh ugh ugh. So sorry you went through all that. Being stalked is not a compliment!!!

Not at all disagreeing with your rage, which I share, but Gurley was 28. (Feel free to edit your comment & dismiss mine, if you catch this within the editing window; I won’t take offense if this post disappears!)

Men have terrible eyesight, so if a man seems interested in you, freeze and remain completely immobile until his attention is drawn to someone else. Men compensate for their poor eyesight with a heightened sense of smell, so be sure to wear perfume that allows you to blend into your surroundings. For example, rub…

This picture gives me the full-bodied icks.

THIS point should be made more often. Too often the “female purity” folks and the “homophobia” folks have mindsets that stem from the same root problem: (1) they have little to no respect for the group of people they find most sexually attractive, (2) they believe everyone else is just like them in terms of…

Agreed that she was (badly) probably trying to make this argument, but “people are stupid, shitty, and not at all taught to control themselves” is kinda the point, right? We’re talking about teenaged boys in school getting distracted by teenaged girls. This is the perfect time to teach boys that even if a girl is…

1000% this. I would bet anything that the Game of Thrones finale was a driving force behind the decision, too. The speculation about Jon Snow alive-or-dead has been so wild, I think they believed they could imitate that frenzy with the “OMG! Who’s dead?!?” reaction.

Dear still killed three, Ke’Arre Stewart, 29, an Iraq War veteran; Jennifer Tarkovsky, 35, a mother there to support a friend; and Garret Swasey, a police officer who had responded to the call.

This. You could throw me back in time anywhere/anywhen and I’d have only the vaguest idea what was going on. I appreciate that she knows some bits and pieces (herbology, field medicine from her time as a nurse during the war, and her particular knowledge of Frank’s family tree) to make things interesting, but doesn’t…