I couldn’t believe that this was Potter Park Zoo in Lansing. Kind of blew my mind. It’s a small, humble zoo is what I am saying. Not one of your fancy big city zoos. Or even the Binder Park Zoo in Battle Creek, MI. I know it from past visits from my time in MI--maybe they’ve embiggened it?

Fifty Shades of Gray is unreadably bad. I feel bad for every other book on this list (yes, even The Help) for being on a list with Fifty Shades. How can a book about kink be so incredibly, constantly, mercilessly boring? No, I never read the other two volumes. No, I never made it through the first one. It’s one of the…

I am kind of starting to love her? Even though I miss Kamala.

I love the Mars Cheese Castle.
“Please do not climb on mouse.” are words to live by. 

Are you coming for the Mars Cheese Castle? Because I’m WI adjacent and I am Cheese Castle or die!

For a moment I read that as “A wind cave is a pretty normal thing if you’re from NorCal” and I was like, “Really, more wind caves?” But I see now. Was his fundraiser in some kind of public wine cave? I come from a place where I have had beers under overpasses which is probably nothing like a wine cave so this whole…

I see what you did there. Smooth!

Fuck Cenk.

They all are. Buttigieg will be too, soon. She wasn’t rich at his age either. That’s the way it works with politics. Even broke-ass Trump is probably a lot richer than he used to be.

That is the way to deal with Buttigieg. I’m sure you are right. But I get dunking on him. I try to imagine feeling like at his age, after being the mayor of South Bend (sounds like dahncing!—with apologies to Hepburn), that I should be president. I see people comparing him to Obama like, “Obama had only been a senator…

It’s a good look for Beto. I think he probably has a future in politics? Who knows, though?

“With the blade guards on” is the most incendiary phrase I ever read. What? As a former figure skating gal I just can’t fathom someone making that mistake. WHAT? I know—there’s impeachment and rape culture and racism and I’m whatting over skate guards? But I what over those, too. Still, for me, it’s a sign of how…

“Get in bitches We’re going Couping.” is the best of a first-rate collection. So very good. 

I once bought a friend a $18 bar of soap from the New York branch of Takashimaya in New York. Not only was the soap wrapped in some amazing paper with a wire and rock decoration, but they placed it in a gold bag that was triangular and added some gold tissue. I didn’t even have to wrap it. It was the very best soap…

Proving once again that you can be incredibly smart and unbelievably stupid all at the same time. 

For years I’ve heard that we treat money, actual bills, differently than we treat our debit or credit cards. This was the year that I started giving myself cash money each pay day to spend over the next two weeks. Now, of course, I still pay my bills and everything else without cash, but for the nonrecurring expenses…

And marble. Don’t forget the marble and art glass. A little tapestry never goes amiss, either.

No, if that’s what I meant I would have said that. Duh. I think that’s what you meant. 

I think you don’t expect more of elected officials and those who choose to run for public office. I think you expect more of women who choose to run for public office or are elected officials. And you are not alone, many are with you. And that was the point of the article.

Yeah but she was a HOOOOOR! (some of the posters on this article, presumably.)