The situation’s supposed to be improving, though. They just finally tossed Denise Reddy out on her ass, and Tony Novo preceded her out the door. Murphy’s wife is getting more involved. There’s reasons to be optimistic. I would take your cues from the Cloud 9 supporters’ outfit. They’re well informed, and led a brief…

Mariah, I don’t think it’s really a selfie if someone else is taking it.

“Give a little get a little” is her job. She’s a legislator. In functioning democracies (so like not us) that means working out compromises. I don’t get why people here either seem to not understand that or simply not accept it. The former concerns me less, but the latter and the absolutism it implies does not seem to…

The labor board under the current administration isn’t going to give a fuck.

I mean, aristocratic families having sharp political divisions isn’t uncommon. See, like, the entirety of medieval history. I don’t think it’s as much of a betrayal as you guys seem to that she’s married to a Kushner when he’s clearly on our side of this cold civil war we’re having.

What exactly do you think Karlie Kloss is going to be in a position to do to this administration that no one else has been able to?

I still think they should have just taken a bunch of footage of regular cats and dubbed over it.

Isn’t “for the win” itself kinda ten years ago, though?  I haven’t seen that shit regularly since I played WoW in college.

I love Allie Long’s expression in the last one.

Anyways, I hope the Netherlands wins tomorrow so we don’t have to play Sweden again. Sweden’s probably the weaker of the two, yeah, but we’ve played them so often for so many Cup cycles. I don’t think we’ve played the Dutch many times at all. I can only remember once,…

Recall that Germany’s won two Women’s World Cups and is still alive on the far side of the bracket.

Serious NWSL fan here.  You guys know you don’t have to wait every four years to get excited about/watch women’s soccer, right?

Yeah, I don’t think France is just going to roll over in Paris on Friday in front of the home crowd.  May well be the end of the line.

I do kind of wonder if it’s not good for the sport if we take the title again.  Then again, better us than the Germans again.

The North American pro league, NWSL, doesn’t have a national television setup at the moment, but they stream all the games for free on Yahoo.  Not sure what the situation is in the UK.

The team that scored was not the one that had been looking the most threatening.  Like, if England is playing Japan, and Japan has the ball most of the time up in England’s box, and then England counters and scores, that’s the kind of scenario being talked about.

So what exactly would you have had him do about a Congress that included segregationists? He can’t wish them away, so if he doesn’t have the votes to work around them, he has to work through them, negotiate and trade favors as necessary.  His options in a representative democracy are limited by design. This is a…

Zeus was kind of the original #metoo offender, so maybe not a great example

Right?  If you’re not sure they want to be touched, don’t put the arm up at all, but the hoverhand is maximum overdweeb.

I don’t know, man. This reminds me of the pictures from when a female friend had me take her to prom back in high school in lieu of her having an actual date. Like, the “hoverhand” I would associate more with plain old social awkwardness. If they don’t want you to touch them, why do any hand thing at all? Why not just…

I’ve got some issues with all these bullet points. Re: 3: you realize there’s pop out there that isn’t emotionally positive stuff, that’s more on the darker side, right? Taylor Swift is pop, but so is Depeche Mode.

Re 2: The queer origins thing applies pretty straightforwardly to a handful of varieties of synthpop, and…