Her book, Nickled and Dimed... changed my life. Should be required reading for every 16 year old.

“When someone works for less pay than she can live on ... she has made a great sacrifice for you ... The “working poor” ... are in fact the major philanthropists of our society. They neglect their own children so that the children of others will be cared for; they live in substandard housing so that other homes will…

You can’t really dissociate the wealth hoarding from the other aspects when he probably gained an unknown proportion of that wealth and influence from also trafficking women and girls.

“America has to stop looking for heroes in its Bill Gates figures and start assuming they’re all Jeffery Epsteins.”

Gates does not have an “ongoing” friendship with Epstein, because Epstein is dead. Gates also, according to the article you linked to, cut off personal contact with Epstein in 2014, never entered into business with him despite Epstein’s repeated pitches, and stopped allowing his employees to entertain those pitches in…

Millionaire who doesn’t work 8-5, has millions and will work with a nutritionist, dietician and personal trainer to get a six pack.

Gotcha. Thank you! Who knew online exchanges could be so pleasant?

Did someone say snacks? I’m in. What are we talkin’ ‘bout? Oh right...snacks.

I am NOT CRYING at that picture of Billie’s little nugget wearing a Princess Leia crocheted hat.  It’s allergies.  I took a Claritin.  

Will’s journey would be more interesting by making it more regular. If he has to live like a regular person, work a regular job, buy regular food, and life off the regular means of that regular job during the journey I’d tune in.

That’s definitely the historical reason, yes. And it’s father’s name in particular because the bride would have had the father’s surname, but lost it through marriage. Even today, the marriage certificate essentially functions as proof of a change of name - I needed to prove descent from my mother a while back, and…

I also find it hilarious to see the following on a “gossip” blog

I visited a village in Vietnam where the Gates Foundation had worked on a project terracing a hard as a rock, clay, steep mountain side to increase food production for the people. The village chief must okay changes and they can be fickle. They also talked about how you need to provide for people in their ideas of…

He also gave some of his money to pay people to do shitty things to sex workers.

Yeah, this...

Is there really a need to shit on Bill Gates? I’ve seen enough of it from right wing sources and now this one too?

It may be because I’m super-old, but one of the first things I remember about the Gates Foundation after it formed was all the mosquito netting it provided to countries in Africa and its dedication to family planning. This isn’t just another Bezos, folks, even if you do not like the man.

RIP Olympia Dukakis! She was a fantastic actress and this was sad news.

I AM GETTING VACC’D ON MONDAY.

A creep I used to know served over 2 years for having sex with a 15 year old girl while employed as a substitute teacher.