As if anyone believes that Donald - “I moved on her like a bitch,” “I don’t even wait,” avoiding STDs in the 70s “was my personal Vietnam,” I enjoy skulking around beauty pageant dressing rooms - Trump has objections to paying for abortions?

This is where thrift shopping is fantastic. There are lots of brands that used to make really high quality stuff, and don’t any longer. And there are lots of clotheshorses who sit with classic styled items in their closets forever without wearing them, because they don’t fit, or they have too many clothes. I have…

Same is true at Banana Republic. The men’s clothing is fairly classic styling, decent quality, made of natural fibres, and if you go over on the women’s side of the store it’s all weird polyester sack dresses that fall funny and have threads hanging off of them.

I’ve never really understood when companies decide to start making things for the customers they want, not the customers they have. Like, there is an outdoor clothing store in my neighborhood who pretty much only order women’s clothing in sizes 2 and 4 They have a few other stray larger sized items, but almost all of…

Are you a celebrity who does a lot of press appearances claiming you are currently learning auto mechanics and everyone should learn auto mechanics because it’s a revolution? Probably you don’t need to do a public reversal of the position. Or you can just tell people, “you know what? I decided I’m not actually going…

That makes a very big difference. Thanks for the context.

I sort of miss when Youtube had strict time limits on their videos. I tried to watch a tutorial for making a DIY Vitamin C skin serum that had THREE INGREDIENTS and somehow the woman, with a combination of cutesy intros, posing, and babbling, stretched the thing out to be 12 minutes long. It easily could have been 30…

It’s true, but it’s also true that she said she stopped wearing makeup because of the unrealistic expectations for appearance that women face, so wearing makeup and pretending you aren’t wearing makeup is just as bad as photoshop and crazy contouring in terms of setting up unreasonable expectations for how women…

It’s because the ACA was basically written by the Heritage Foundation, one of the think-tanks to whom the Republicans outsource all of their crafting of legislation. It was what the Republicans wanted - they only campaigned against it because it was a black Democrat who got it passed. And now they’re sort of fucked,…

That was my favorite thing about that trainwreck bill - they brag about how short and efficient it is and literally ten percent of the length of the bill is about this bizarrely specific non-problem. So weird.

It’s crazy that they don’t realize that Trump is rich because

Oh no, Trump does have ideas, they’re just always colossally stupid ideas involving props. Like the big piles of empty file folders “proving” he’s dealing with business-related conflicts of interest, or the piles of paper “proving” Trumpcare was a better bill than Obamacare because it was shorter? Those are absolutely…

One of my junior high teachers was a Nova Scotian whose maternal tongue is Gaelic. When she got really angry and was yelling at us, sometimes she’d completely lose control and revert to Gaelic, which was fucking terrifying. The sudden switch to a language with more guttural sounds made it seem like she was possessed.…

It’s worth noting that a lot of GOP/Trump supporters are sufficiently “low information” voters that they’ll probably see these ads and believe it’s true. I do find it odd the ad didn’t call the ACA “Obamacare,” though, because that’s been one of the biggest GOP spin tactics: lots of people who benefit from the ACA…

I know a university professor in Nova Scotia and she regularly complains it’s a huge pain in the ass alphabetizing papers and assignments because 1/3 of the students have names that start with Mac and Mc.

Given the kind of drama queens they pick for reality TV shows, I can’t imagine the participants took this well.

I use tea tree oil for zits/skin problems, lavender to relax, and eucalyptus (in the bath, herbal steam) as a gentle decongestant when I have a bit of a cold but nothing bad enough to take actual cold medications. So I feel like they can be used sanely beyond just scent, but lots of people are really wacky with…

This morning, half asleep

Particularly white privilege-y for the guy who got off with a slap on the wrist for both cocaine smuggling and DUI to then back the mandatory minimums/“law and order” Republicans once he’s rich, and claim he’s so oppressed. What an asshole. If this guy was black, he’d still be in jail.

And even then, it’s the fact that he’s always balded poorly. He’s balding in the way guys in their 50s and 60s do. He essentially has a combover. If he had all of his hair buzzed down to about 1/4 inch long so that the bald spot wasn’t so prominent, he’d probably look ten years younger than he does. He’d look like a…