Thanks. I think I knew that this is what I need to do, but I just needed someone else to give me permission. Whelp. This will be a fun conversation.

A friend of mine did a tour in the wine-growing regions of Georgia and said it was fascinating. I love history and I love wine, so it’s on the list!

It was a typo, but now that you’ve pointed it out I think it fits.

Thanks for the sympathy.

It’s a bit more costly than drug-store stuff (like $16/17), but Clinique Lash-Doubling Mascara is the best mascara I’ve ever tried. If you want to try some things out (I’m a bit of a Clinique fangirl so bear with me) Macy’s is giving out a pretty good bag of samples right now with every $27 Clinique purchase. I’m…

How do you all deal with the end of a relationship?

I love salmon! Is there a specific ratio that you use for your marinade, or is it more of a “just throw them together” kind of thing? I always end up baking my salmon coated in a mixture of soy sauce, honey, olive oil, and sesame seeds. Don’t know why I started doing that, but it does taste pretty good!

This chicken is a favorite! And this pasta sauce is amazzzzzing. I’ve also discovered that couscous mixed with black beans, salsa, and a liiil’ bit of chili powder is really, really good. I’m trying to lose weight as well (have only been at it for a little over a week, though) and I’m still mostly just stuffing myself…

It’s horrifyingly disrespectful to the people buried there. I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s charged with desecration of a corpse. Would it be ok if she had gone into an expensive cemetery damaged by Katrina and taken bones out of a casket that had been broken open? The whole reason people are buried here is because…

Right? I can’t believe people are defending this... if she went into an expensive cemetery that had been damaged by Katrina (as many were) and took bones people would be horrified, but because these people were poor it’s ok?

It’s been used as a cemetery since 1879. It’s quite possible that a lot of the families of the dead are dead themselves. It was also probably heavily damaged during Katrina, as many graveyards were. And besides, this is a cemetery that people use (and have used) when they can’t afford a “proper” burial in another…

Ohhhh with that statement I am 100% getting the sense he has forced women, or at least payed the off, to have abortions.

Usually they want to aim laws restricting abortion towards doctors, since a. many anti-choice women have had abortions and would be affected by laws punishing women and b. if they did manage to ban abortions, laws punishing the woman would require them to send between 20-30% of American women to prison, which would…

And the guy in charge of that massacre deported 1000s of French Jews to camps during the war. It didn’t exactly hurt his career.

And France gave them complete amnesty for torturing and raping those people. People of North African descent were being lynched in France during these wars. France stopped fighting so hard in North Africa only because international observers were comparing French troops to the Nazis.

That’s a bit of an overestimate... there are more like 215/220 million French speakers. And French culture within France may not be on a decline, but France is certainly becoming less and less culturally and politically important abroad. It’s something that happening to all European countries and languages. Europe is…

Something I’ve always felt is that if the idea of losing your virginity is a huge deal to you, you’re not ready. Of course it isn’t my place to make other people’s decisions for them and everyone experiences things differently, buy I’m very glad I waited until I was in a mental place where sex just really wasn’t a big…

Nooooo don’t B-list!!!

I don’t think that Trump personally will do it, but I worry about the Supreme Court... there’s already one vacant and two of the other justices are getting quite old. I’m more worried about those appointments, and what lawsuits Republicans will push if we get a more conservative court, than anything Trump might…

I’m not trying to argue that I’m somehow all-knowing, that I’ve had broad experience across the planet, or that I’m “not a typical white person,” whatever that means. I am white. My family is German. I have lived in Germany. I don’t make claims to know anything about parts of the world besides America and Northern…