Massachusetts. We legalized marijuana. Also:

Can you help me? I’m a Northeastern gal. I enjoy the cold and I hate people. Where do I move to in California?

Christmas gifts are a fucking plague. I mean, I love giving and receiving gifts around the holidays, but so much of it is really excessive and there’s all this weird social pressure around it. I think keeping gifts pretty minimal and limited to as small a group of people as possible is a good thing. And giving…

No, she took a whitewashed role of her own free will. She is responsible for the consequences.

“I speak for Asians when I say we’re upset at you.” “Can you explain why you think people are upset about this thing, so I can understand.” “This bitch thinks I speak for Asians, fuck her.”

In the comics, Swinton’s character is a stereotypical “wise Asian” character, which many people find offensive. Rewriting that role as a white woman removes that, and creates a role for a woman. And then, they wrote a new Asian role and cast an Asian actor. No Asian actors lost work, a role for a woman was created, a…

I think it’s fine to flip the genders and races of a character around, but I wonder if they even considered making Dr. Strange nonwhite or a lady, or if they were dead set on a white guy, or dead set on Benadryl Candycrush.

I don’t give a shit about comic books or comic books movies. It just occurs to me that in this scenario Margaret Cho is always going to lose because she is an awkward loudmouth and Tilda Swinton is always going to win because she is an elegant, cool lady. The Team Swinton folks should acknowledge that, yes? She comes…

Major props to Tilda for releasing the conversation too.

I’m guessing that Cho doesn’t understand why a lot of people are pissed at her. It has nothing to do with her feelings that Asian actors should play Asian roles, which is completely valid. Everyone’s pissed because she took what was supposed to be a private conversation, twisted it into the worst possible…

I never thought of that, but you’re fucking right!

Speaking as a fellow Old, I concur: the invisibility of being une femme d’un certain âge is indeed a kind of superpower.

I’d add to this that it’s a pernicious habit to judge historical artists by the standards of today. “Klimt was a terrible womanizer!” -yes, he banged his models and never did marry, but his truest friend was a woman, and his portraits of women are among the most interesting ever painted.

Today was nice. I spent the day with a friend (and former colleague) and we have this really lovely friendship that can seem a bit unconventional at times to others, mainly because of our age difference. I’m 34 and she’s 57. I’m single with no kids and she’s married with three daughters who are all in their early…

DO NOT DO THIS. Planned Parenthood then has to send a certificate for each donation to the address you give. Just donate to Planned Parenthood. Stop wasting their money and staff time. If you want to, call or write Mike Pence or whoever YOURSELF and tell them you made a donation in their honour.

The Parade of Assholes has to be the worst Cirque du Soliel show ever.

Yup.

I am pretty sure he likes himself.

In the 1700s and part of the 1800s in Europe, nearly all wars were ended by some form of compromise. There was a type of small-c conservatism was very pragmatic in nature, that was prevalent among the leadership of much of the continent. The balance of power in Europe was delicate as all hell, and most people saw…