For fuck's sake. Isn't it just plain abusive to make people endure this racist shitstorm? I get that people choose to go on this show for all kinds of shallow reasons...but this isn't about "revealing prejudices," as if this was The Real World circa 1995 — it's about attacking people. And it's the fucking cherry on…

I know weddings are expensive in certain places, but $200 a plate is what they charge at Per Se. Or Le Bernardin. Or Alinea. And that's for the best food in the world not some shitty mass-packaged and microwaved chicken and vegetables.

I agree. This is like when Jessica Valenti so smartly said that purity balls — and purity culture, more generally — still sexualizes young girls because it puts all the focus on their sexuality as opposed to their intelligence or compassion. And this seems to be the same thing for beauty standards.

Thanks so much for this story. It's time we start talking about the cost of childbirth along with the cost of abortion, and the cost of adoption, and the cost of daycare. These are all issues that can be improved together.

I'm not advocating for an overthrow of capitalism. But, again, if you actually look at the kind of money Booker has raised over the past year and a half, it has been largely for his own campaign; it's coming from corporations that are deregulated and whose boards are very much anti-union. It's also coming from a lot…

Well, I've seen diff impressions of him in Newark, especially now that his eyes are clearly on a bigger prize. And people in Newark aren't stupid — if it comes down to shoveling snow or preserving the school system, which one would you want your mayor to do? Which one did you elect him to do? Do you want your mayor to…

Look, all I'm saying is that there is a lot more to this politician than a well-run twitter account. He's done a lot of admirable things — like hunger strikes and inviting constituents into his home during Hurricane Sandy. But he's also done some shady things, too — things that kind of fly in the face of that grass…

But isn't there a less self-serving way of getting that out than twitter? Like, isn't that what normal journalism is for? Most city newspapers have a reporter that covers the mayor's office and this kind of act would certainly get coverage. It just seems different from the ways most other politicians use twitter.

Why, so we can go out for tea and scones and hash out our differences? Ya, no thanks.

Um, we have this system called taxes? Maybe you haven't heard of it. That's okay, Corey Booker's hedge fund friends haven't heard of taxes either. But, lemme guess, you don't want that because that would mean you would actually have to shell out a few extra bucks each year to cover your neighborhood fire fighter or…

Yeah, Booker gets things done. He slashes city budgets, cuts fire fighters and police force, and the crime rates in Newark — especially homicide rates — go up. http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/28/us/… He turns public schools into a voucher system. He says he's "nauseated" when Obama criticizes Romney's off shore banking…

Yeah, under your (very rudely worded) logic, we should just do away with politics altogether. The whole political notion of democracy — that some sort of public good and progress can be expressed and represented by elected officials — is based on a wild "Candy Land" faith in the public sphere. And I notice that your…

Yeah, but holding up $100 million dollars that were intended to go directly into Newark's public schools? Prompting the ACLU to sue you and your city just so funds can be allocated where they were originally intended? That's not just normal politics. http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/201…

Yeah, god knows the guardian doesn't have international offices or access to the interwebs.

Yeah, but he's kind of the king of it. As in, he defended Mitt Romney's corporate sensibilities.

I really, really want to love Corey Booker. I want to declare, with unabashed enthusiasm, that he's the future and the future is bright. But...I dunno. There's a strong corporate sensibility there. I don't understand how he lives in the projects, but then makes so many political deals with Wall Street or how he can be…

lol, so true!

haha, truth!

For some reason, the grunting vs. shrieking debate is really not one I'm interested in engaging.

Aw, shoot. I was totally on board with the pro-pimms part. Pimms IS amazing — in fresh lemonade or ginger beer with cucumber slices or blackberries and mint. Mwah, perfection!