It depends on which state you’re in. I’m in California and have to run background checks as part of my job. It takes an average of five days, a few times as long as two weeks. I got super jealous when I first heard how quickly some other states could get their background checks.

Also, some shooters managed to buy guns legally because nobody ‘got around’ to entering their former crimes in the data registry. WHOOPS!

One of the biggest arguments against expanded background checks that I’m seeing (even here in the greys) is ‘oh, well we already have background checks and criminals aren’t going to buy their guns legally anyway.’ But in most major shootings, this simply isn’t the case.

I see a lot of folks blaming scalpers for this, but when I tried (unsuccessfully) to buy Adele tickets, the website said that nobody would be permitted in the venue without security swiping the original credit card that purcheised the tickets, thereby making the tickets non-transferable (and scalper-proof). Was it not…

Apparently Joanna Newsom is on that list of people who I absolutely fail to recognize once they grow out their bangs.

“Me, personally? I wish that example was Laverne Cox or Janet Mock. But it usually isn’t, at least not yet.”

Apparently in 2015, I listened to nothing but Sia and Sondheim. Teenaged Dave would be mortified:

This, SO MUCH.

I don’t know if it’s legitimately true or not, but I’ve always heard that police are encouraged to have similar haircuts and mustaches because it makes them look less distinct from one another and makes it harder for suspects to identify later on which one they encountered. Again, I don’t know if it’s true.

Is that true? I had no idea!

One of my main joys about the new Muppet Show is the development of Uncle Deadly’s character. He was always one of my favorite characters as a kid, and making him the slightly catty wardrobe handler pleases me to no end.

That’s what I came to say; way to bury the lede, Jezebel!

I vote we call them Daeshbags.

In big stage musicals it’s not only common, it’s almost necessary. It’s kind of a brutal schedule to lay on a real teenager unless you’re paying them ‘Britney Spears in 1998’ money.

For a split second my brain registered that dress as saying ‘Dance Your Cares Away’ and I got unreasonably excited that there was a Fraggle Rock-inspired dress out there. Now that I know there isn’t, I’m kind of dissappointed.

Gah! Trump! Not Rump descriptors! Darn janky keyboard!

I actually came to the comments to ask if Jezebel could give us a comprehensive list of all the rump descriptors they’ve used because they are all GOLD!

Right? I’m getting so frustrated about all the apologists out there saying that students are just trying to shut down ‘differences of opinion’ and stifle free speech.

“recently noted that college students who demand safe spaces from opinions that upset them are acting like babies.”

I mean sure, those babies shouldn’t be able to shut down such well thought-out expressions of opinion such as smearing swastikas made of feces on their building walls or threatening to gun them down if…

I’m going to be the terrible insufferable name-dropper and point out that my friend Angela Jarman made some of those translucent wings. She’s super amazingly talented and everybody should go to her wings website and give her all the dollars: