My aunt and my cousin are like the Beales, but not as fancy. During the Sonoma County fires, I prayed that their house would burn down so that I wouldn’t have to deal with it.

I regularly am convinced I’m about one bad go of it away from being one of the Edies. Laying in bed, with a coffee maker plugged into a questionable outlet, feeding canned food to a million dogs and raccoons.

I was wondering why, in that incredibly patriarchal family, no one simply paid for the two women to live in clean surroundings, but it seems the house was a money pit, and that the Edies, particularly Big Edie, were incorrigible.

Considering that the Bradlees had to basically gut the interior of the house to get rid of the feces and debris and animal carcasses, I’m somewhat surprised they had so much of Big and Little Edie’s stuff left. And the prices seemed reasonable as hell (other stories I read showed many more of the pieces).

Yeah and now it’s lion heads too. I truly hate “big game hunting” for sport.

I had an abusive (female) partner who would cheat on me, agree to “let” me wear condoms, and then guilt-trip and insult me during sex until I agreed to remove it. So you’re not alone in that, although I’m sure it’s much, much less common than the reverse.

So my wife and I are sitting around tonight, in shock about Al Franken. My wife asks me “Al Franken, that guy from Alabama, Weinstein, Spacey... they’re all going to be called to account for their actions - as they should- and they’re all going to hopefully suffer the consequences. How the FUCK does Trump skate past…

I think that the only thing that will turn his base off is if some of his horrible legislation gets passed and they start feeling the consequences. And even then, some of his base will happily vote for him again anyway. But still - only the passage of shitty, harmful legislation that directly negatively impacts them…

Guys.

1) Calling them both mistakes, especially how Ariely presented it, IS drawing an equivalency. And he’s also saying both are a natural part of being human. Maybe he’s right, but my experience as a human suggests otherwise. That’s why I wanted to know more about the actual study he did. Do you think it’s common for…

But when the subjects were aroused, that number went down to 69

I mean she did decide to read “Oh the Places You’ll Go” to a ward full of terminally ill children, which seems cruelly ironic at best. “You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the one who’ll decide where to go!”

Her anti-bullying platform might also be described as cruelly ironic. It may also be…

I get angry every time I see a member of that family being feted and given the royal treatment. Even watching the video of Arabella singing in Mandarin and getting applause from the guests at the Forbidden City dinner makes me think about how unworthy this family of grifters is. They haven’t earned it, not a one of…

or actively lessened the office she holds

If you don’t count her loudly flapping her gums on the teevee promoting Obama birtherism, dismissing and defending her husband’s admission of sexual assault, suing internet nobodies for saying mean things about her, threatening to sue her supporters for saying nice things about her, and cavalierly costing taxpayers…

Aside from her fictional college degree and the plagiarized speech- which, I suppose, are small potatoes in the scheme of things.

Don’t worry; they plan on coming out with a new cult with a much easier method of interaction with the public, based on selling the women they have collected. It’ll be called “Vendo in Nomine Domini Obsequiosum Vestrum Sororium”.

Well we knew she wasn’t gonna reach Michelle Obama levels of amazing, but I was hoping for at least a Laura Bush level of quiet dignity... and her going around in a FLOTUS ball cap and looking like Natasha from Rocky & Bullwinkle ain’t it.

I love how “has not constantly disgraced herself or the nation nor led us to the brink of nuclear war” has A) become the bar and B) is impossible to clear by anybody but her.

She benefits from the fact the bar has never been set so low.