Speaking of Cinco de Mayo, I just learnt this yesterday.

This tendency to headline these stories with photos of smiling young women is kind of strange. I realize it’s not the released girls, but it’s a tad misleading - I don’t want to see photos of these young women right now unless they want photos to be shared, but I can’t imagine they are jumping for joy, looking healthy…

Because they can.

They look like they were trying to get into a group photo they weren’t invited to join, anyway.

I grew up in America and now live in a country with universal health care. I told a close relative the story of how I thought I broke my foot and has to go to the emergency room and get X-rays. Said relative re-told the story with emphasis on the fact that I had to wait a few hours to be seen and how awful was that.…

Mix in a failure to properly fund education and you end up with voter who believe cutting taxes on the rich will result in more money for themselves.

I don’t live in the US, so can someone explain to me where this mentality comes from?

Are Americans really taught that they won the War of 1812?

The answer to your question is really, really complicated, and taps into an entire historiography of debate between scholars about why socialism never was able to take root here. The bootstraps mythos, the greed and simultaneous fear that someone will come and take what is yours any minute—they are deeply rooted in…

Each of you bring/make the creepiest fucking baby doll you can. Make it a competition.

I preordered the Espionage Cosmetics eyeshadow palettes inspired by RPG (yes, as in Dungeons & Dragons) and Harry Potter! The drag thing is that they’re not going to ship until probably August. Oh well, it will give me something to look forward to!

I used to work in book publishing. When I was young and starry-eyed I used to envy people who got books published. My boss once said to me, “Only a tiny percentage of books written get published, and only a tiny percentage of books that are published deserve to be. Save yourself the embarrassment, keep a diary.”

As a fellow Canadian, I think their fear of Socialism is greater than their desire to save babies’ lives.

I’d have cropped them too. They look like novelty hookers. I loathe Diddy, but he looks incredible here. Does he still actually DO something?

Could be the medication mixed with not so great sex in the past? Either no one has bothered to tell him what he’s doing wrong, or they’ve made him feel bad about not staying hard and he’s too anxious about it.

Not to mention this is a job, you get paid for. No excuse for fucking us all.

This is actually a dumb criticism whenever it’s brought up. Asking a legislator to read every part of every bill is like asking a software development team lead to personally review every line of code their team writes. It’s a pointless exercise and fundamentally misunderstands how things work. Legislators should be…

I prefer California to Massachusetts (no question); but Cambridge > Palo Alto.

I also found the “your president” part to be pretty keenly composed. I don’t even think it was done consciously, but it further dissociates Sebag-Montefiore, his shop, opinions, etc from having anything to do with Trump.