I think cleanses are great as an occasional digestive reset and bad-habit breaker. As long as they are real food based (a variety of organic raw vegetable juices counts as real food), and not snake oil bullshit like "master cleanse" or monotonous broth soups — those teach you nothing about food or your own body and…

So brilliant, personal and familial, yet discreet, confident to the core but slightly nervous in the moment, and relentlessly dignified all at the same time. AND with a sense of humor. I am in awe. Plus she looks absolutely DYNAMITE, which doesn't hurt her delivery one bit. Wow.

Wow, that's harrowing. Sorry to hear it, and I think these details should shut everyone up.

New York City and elsewhere in NY state. Also Atlanta. And consider whether they are getting "twice as much" for a small number of hours, with zero non-cash benefits, and if they are on a 1099, they have to pay a much higher amount of that stipend in taxes. So, not really twice as much.

Agreed. That comes up in employment statistics too, that there are more unemployed men and more underemployed/low-paid women. Men have more sense of pride (I use that in the negative sense here) about work, and see it as more part of their identity than as strictly $ means to an end.

Ah yes, thank you. I commented elsewhere that I could not imagine "perma-lance" status existing anywhere but in the media industry, but you are totally correct. Academia is a whole separate long-term, intellectual-sweatshop universe that has been exploiting, underpaying and gratitude-training grad students and…

Ugh. Media companies are really pioneering exploitation and knowledge-economy sweatshop practices for a new era. Can you imagine "perma-lance" existing in any other industry sector but media?

It's not just your internship prospects, either. As a communications major, you'll be lucky to find payment at all .... forever. Media companies have figured out that they can structure their entire business on core skeleton crews and hire freelancers on a project basis to do work. There's an essentially infinite pool…

She acknowledges she was in a fortunate position by birth. She doesn't pretend it was all her own hard work and ability that got her where she is (there's no "I built that!" delusion). I think this is a relevant, interesting look at a consequence of enjoying privilege: conformity training — plus many other cultural…

And that's from 1982! 30 years hence, how are people still buying them!? I own zero diamonds and am a little sad every time I see one. Even "no conflict" diamonds are still proof that people can be manipulated into buying expensive, sparkly snake oil.

Mental health care and monitoring has got to change, pronto. Most of the recent massacres are by young men who were identified as unstable and left to their own devices. It's a cancer to society that is all of our responsibility to address.

You're not mourning. If you were, you'd be wishing you were dead instead of the children who were murdered today. If you're reading Jezebel and telling us how sad you are, you're full of shit. Waiting until the dust clears — or for another massacre — is disgusting, you sanctimonious prig.

Crocodile tears make me feel sick.

Anyone grieving today will still be grieving tomorrow. And forever. Let the rest of us — who are lucky enough to be spared this particular horrible, bottomless, forever grief — speak and act. Seriously, fuck *you* and your inertia and your passive headshaking and your crocodile tears.