If “Ivanka’s role was limited to recommending an architect,” the project was doomed. Ivanka was in charge of the Trump Baku (Kazakhstan), completed in 2016 using dubiously sourced funding (Iranian Revolutionary Guard). This hideous building, which literally looks like a dildo lodged in a vagina, is still unoccupied…

She wrote she loves dynasty because Liz Gillies from Dynasty on CW is Cady Heron in the music video!!

To be fair, Kim is a Libra-Scorpio cusp, and Scorpios will never fully forgive someone who’s hurt them (or a loved one). Also, I was born the day after Kim, so I speak from a place of great knowledge (lol).

That is totally inappropriate!  I would be furious too! A total violation of your privacy.

I would feel the same. Something like that is reserved for actual calls or texts. Maybe a private FB group for close friends and family just for updates to be more efficient. 

I was really surprised to learn how many openly gay people were accepted in the people temple. There were open gay men in relationships. That’s not something that comes up in a lot of these discussions. In a time period where being openly gay was dangerous and very stigmatizing, the People’s Temple was open. I had no…

It is silent in English because word-initial “pt” is too difficult for us, but not, I believe (and according to Wiktionary) in Ancient Greek. Same thing with “pterodactyl”.

So, is the “P” silent or what?

I don’t know, but I keep reading his name as Arm and Hammer and now I think I should add baking soda to my grocery list.

Yuh know what? I..... I didn’t hate it. I soft liked it. I... I liked it.

Every time I see Viola Davis is in something new I sit up and take notice (though she’s still not enough to get me to see Suicide Squad). She’s such an incredible talent. I remember the first thing I saw her in, which was a couple of scenes in the movie ‘Doubt’, including one where she acts the pants off her screen…

The hostile comments from the residents of Playas de Tijuana is surprising and deeply distrurbing. The Pacific coastal stretch of Baja California Norte has a thriving gay scene. The beach resorts of Tijuana, Rosarito and Ensenada thrive on gay tourist dollars. Those locals voicing antipathy towards the LGBT community…

I have read so many comments claiming that AHS started going downhill after “Coven” or some later Season. I have only watched the ones with Lady Gaga, so I would be a poor judge; but the production values in that trailer look really good. So are there Seasons that I should skip? Are the critics right?

I forgot the late 18th Century pharaoh Neferneferuaten who may have been either male or female (and might actually have been Nefertiti).

Yep, you’re right about the determinative informing you if a name is male or female. Most commonly, a seated woman hieroglyph signified a woman and a kneeling man for a man.

Hatshepsut was certainly portrayed with the beard in her lifetime - amongst others there’s a magnificent bearded granite sphinx of her in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Likewise, the many statues in her astonishing mortuary temple, Djesur Djeseru at Deir el Bahri show as the bearded Osiris. This wouldn’t have…

She ruled as king, not queen (gendered nouns). ‘Pharaoh’ meant ‘great house’ and so was used to refer to the king, much the way we use ‘white house’ to refer to the president.

I was a server years ago and I witnessed a toddler shit on the floor once. Upscale place! The parents just left, didn’t even try to talk to anyone. Some parents are vile.

Dear Salty,

Both my wife and I work very hard and we think we deserve, nay, are entitled to blow off a lot of steam with a nice dinner out with our 14 month-old Instabook tenant.

Yet we get dirty looks (of jealousy?) wherever we go because we find it convenient to change our kid’s nappy at our table. (It’s the good…