The Isabel Spellman novels by Lisa Lutz (fun, contemporary mysteries) feature a protagonist who is always cagy about her weight. Her awful grandmother is always passive-aggresively critiquing her weight, but the implication is that she is of average size, just not petite like the other women in her family.

I live in a rock solid red state. I vote, but it feels like I’m casting it into the wind.

But they didn’t qualify their discomfort as a reason to ban abortion? They said they were uncomfortable with it but believed in a woman’s right to choose. What you’re saying is absolutely true, but it’s not being directed to the right person.

It’s really important that Democrat voters also get out in number and vote in their state and local elections, not just for the presidency. It’s these state elections that have the most consequence for these stupid TRAP and woman-punishing laws.

Real question I have about transphobic bathroom residents, and also people who scream about people on welfare buying steaks with food stamps: who the fuck is paying THAT MUCH attention to the other people around them? I can’t remember the last time I made eye contact with a stranger in a bathroom let alone debated…

*book spoiler below, be warned*

Haha, I spent basically 2008-2011 doing just this. Man, I miss having a balcony. *waves fist angrily at British weather*

The food looks good. HOWEVER, cinnamon and curry do not go together. I am shaken to my soul. And on shrimp too, what.

He was my first dirty dream.

I didn’t really like The Hateful Eight that much. I just felt it was way too long for something that didn’t need to be, and I am kind of just getting sick of Tarantino. The acting was great, especially Sam Jackson, but I feel like Tarantino is just doing the same old snarky dramatic dialogue with his “tribute” to old…

This is my all time favorite “rant” about teachers:

I know, and its sad when someone can work a full time job and STILL need some sort of assistance to provide food/heat for their family. Then they get criticized by people who tell them to “go flip hamburgers” if you have to and stop stealing my tax money. And if they say “I already do” back, the asshats say “Well what…

He also doesn’t mention being any part of the day-to-day labor of raising a child. I would have had a totally different reaction to this piece if he had said “I don’t make enough money to pay child support, but my flexible schedule means that I do all the after-school pick-ups, sick-day care-taking, etc...” Instead,…

Does anyone else hate their Republican relatives even more because of the election? Especially if you’re the one of the few Democrats in your family?

I think we just have a nation of “angry” people. On both sides. People are just “angry” that things aren’t “good”. Each side has their “we’re angry candidate”. One side just wants to go back to when things were “good” (for them) and the other side wants to venture into “uncharted” territory where things are supposedly…

YES! Also the people who claim to hate drama are always the ones causing it. If someone tells me they don’t like drama, I immediately know their life is a soap opera.

This always happens when conservatives whine about liberals being too PC and easily offended, but they cry persecution whenever you say anything criticizing Christianity or whatever. So goddamn annoying.

I didn’t love this ad spot, but it’s been said before and still bears repeating: vote for your preferred candidate in the primary, but vote blue regardless in November. I’m so excited to have a chance to vote for Bernie on Tuesday, but I’ll also happily vote for Hillary in November if it means I get to vote against…

No no, it’s so much less crazy than that! You see, the ancient egyptians didn’t use the pyramids as tombs; they MUST have used them for grain storage, because the Bible tells us that Joseph warned the pharaoh about a famine God told him about in a dream, and you don’t see any silos hanging around Egypt, do you?