Middle America (my ancestral land) has a certain segment of women who find Lauer and other bland white dudes of his type attractive. It was no surprise to me at all when the unsalted bowl of oatmeal called Blake Shelton was named Sexiest Man Alive, because I am personally acquainted with at least 15 women who agreed.

I love NBC’s defense here.

I don’t think any TV host needs eight goddamn figures a year, but this is so wildly disrespectful to Al Roker that I can barely think straight. I had no idea I cared so much, but god – I’m in my early 30s and this man has been an affable, avuncular, beloved media personality for almost my entire life. Megyn “Megan”…

Oh, STFU, WaPo. The one-child policy wouldn’t have had this effect if people didn’t consider female babies to be trash. THAT is the problem.

The USSR had a huge surplus of women post-WWII and the women there somehow managed to survive without trafficking men from other countries.  

Its almost like it hurts everybody, or something.......

Jimmy Fallon laughs at his own jokes. That should be an unforgivable offence for a comedian. I remember when he was doing the news on SNL with Tina Fey. She was a total professional, and he was giggling like a 14-year-old when their crush walks by, so annoying!

Fascinating.

If they were really treating the remains as a human corpse, this would be an option, since dead bodies are donated to science all the time. I feel like there are grounds for a serious lawsuit here, emotional abuse notwithstanding.

I just want you all to imagine what Fox news is like right now in a universe where Obama is;

And then what? Rock the Vote? Please tell me something more comes of all this than a report that congress can choose to sit on.

It’s so strange how fathers are never to be punished for abortions. I’m sure it’s just a right-wing oversight.

Arguing that women who have abortions are murderers isn’t a unique point of view, but believing that it is insightful or interesting only speaks to the remove of op-ed pages from communities where this is pretty status quo.

Hire a fire-breathing Marxist and then I’ll believe you have a commitment to “ideological diversity” until then you can take your neo-maxi-zoom-dweebies and shove them up your ass.

The more I learn about the actors in Mad Men, the more I’m convinced that everyone was pretty much just cast as an extreme version of themselves.

Don Draper is an alcoholic orphan pretending to be someone else; played by Jon Hamm, an alcoholic orphan who pretends to be other people. The role was perfect for him.

Future alcoholic does shitty stuff in a (likely) alcohol-soaked situation, lacks ability to fully own culpability when questioned about it. News at 11.

Not NEARLY as bad as the other kid’s name: Brhayeannon...wtf is that 

Kids I want to write tell-all books:

“At an industry conference in Austin about diaper innovation, there were no panels discussing how to make diapers more affordable.”