Shut down the football program? In Texas? Ahahahahahahahaha!

No, there is NO months maternity leave in the States (forget about paternity). It’s all up to the beneficence of the organization with which one is employed. And you can imagine just how magnanimous most companies are with nothing to force their hands...

No. Love of Chuck Bass is totally rational.

I also got a good nap in during An Inconvenient Truth. Al is just so soothing.

Yup. And after that cock up, I don’t say words that I’m not 100% sure I know how to say. It is indeed the curse of the avid reader.

Cacophony

Oh, moobs are pretty easy to get, too.

“that show about sex accidents on TLC...” Sometimes I miss having cable.

Actually, if they are giving it to the barrista as their name, I look forward to the moment where no one is quite sure whose coffee is whose because they all say “Merry Christmas,” on them.

Thanks!

On the right:

I have never understood the name of Legal Seafood.

Because we are all trying to UNSEE it.

Well, I WAS Ariana Grande’s Clit, so perhaps you consider this an improvement? I was thinking of changing to Ariana Grande, American Patriot, though.

Oddly enough, I’M the middle-aged white lady in this situation (okay a bit young to be middle-aged, but not far off, either).

The whole final block quote sort of belies that point though

It helps immensely to know that “throwing ‘bows” refers to “throwing elbows.”

So, “People who are crazy for H&M’s Balmain line are elbowing each other out of the way so that they may look like Kylie Jenner...”

And then I’m not sure whether the writer means, “so that they may look like Kylie Jenner when they (the…

But we WROTE all the Christmas musics!

The real winner here is voter apathy.