research, education and conservation are important but the real issue is us. It’s always us and imprisoning animals in an effort to try and fix the shit we are causing is not the solution. I mean there is no actual solution because we are a horrible plight on the planet but taking the money poured into zoos and…

except they could leave whenever the hell they want. This would be compared to a white-collar prison, except even then, eventually your sentence is over.

you talk about how easy and non essential her job is compared to those others and therefore she should be grateful, fine, but then you compare a sports reporter with a waiter, invalidating your entire argument about cushy jobs vs hard ones. 

“Wow! Yet another big storm heading to Puerto Rico. Will it ever end? “ Does...does he understand how nature works?  

nah, Gregor was a sweet,hardworking son and brother alienated and dehumanzied by drudgery and shitty bosses. If he’d been like Bret Stephens it wouldn’t have been a tragedy, it would have been a comedy.

those remind me of the 70s. I’m pretty sure my step father had some like that. 

“Prescriptivism is a lie.” I want that on a T-shirt 

thank you. I was so confused by this that I started to think I was misdefining what a trans man was. I couldn’t understand why a girl dating a trans boy wouldn’t still be considered a het relationship, and how that would make her a lesbian. 

yep. I remember the first time we saw the Eurythmics and fell in love with Sweet Dreams, and I mean my mother, me and my rap loving baby brother. We watched everything from Yo Mtv Raps to Van Halen and Billy Idol. Honestly our music tastes are so electic now because of that exposure when we were kids. 

Good to know who needs to be smacked in the mouth with a wet mackrel. I mean this flaming hot shit is everywhere to the point I can’t find just regular anything. 

does the model have garters without stockings? 

all the money in the world won’t repair brain damage and the kind of body damage some of these guys get. They make that money to entertain yeah, but they’re not required to do it at the cost of their lives. Actors make the same kinds of money but no one even expects them to do their own stunts.

 I believe each of their kids got to pick a 2nd language to learn(by got to pick I mean...it was you’re gonna learn a 2nd language, so pick which you’d like). 

Sorry, but nobody was following a lot of these people around like maniacs either. Brangelina was a phenomenon. They chose to control some of that and IIRC they donated that money to charity. They used the birth of Shiloh I think, to call attention to a small country that needed financial aid. Whether you think all her…

yeah, I mean we look askew at how cliquish rich and famous people are but I imagine it gives them some level of security that they’re liked just for them...though even then there are sometimes power hierarchies.

Sorry but I agree. I think the base that got Obama elected feels betrayed because no miracles happened. I don’t know they are going to come out and put their faith in the next, great hope. I do think that the people that love old white men who don’t rock the boat are gonna vote for Biden because they’re deathly happy…

 I honestly think Trump just isn’t aware of Presidential term limits, just like he’s not aware of the way Amendments work. 

the personal is political and the political is personal. If you don’t think it is, you’re living an extraordinarily privileged life.

This. Commercials are a good marker of changing attitudes. They not only reflect them, but they also influence them. Seeing the increase of gay couples and interracial couples in commercials without “very special messages” says something about where society is going at that time. 

oh yes. I wish they’d use a flashback tag or something. I don’t mind reading older articles but it’d be nice to realize it from the beginning.