Later, the GOP tweeted out a sketch of Ted Cruz when he was a hottie.

I’m just going to steal Ashley Feinberg’s tweet on this one:

I tend to agree with the substance of the criticism (to be clear: not the name-calling or other kindergarten tactics.) It is a fact: some people are generally sad whenever anyone dies: their family, their friends, people who benefitted from them in some way. That being said, I don’t see the point of offering more than…

This is more than likely white women not wanting to be seen as “old” and taking it out on a kid.

I think the fact that he’s clearly distraught about wanting to see his S.O. be healthy again, and seemingly very cautious about approaching the subject with her, indicates that he’s not strictly interested in how attractive she is. It’s part of it, but he’s clearly panicked at the rapid deterioration (both physically…

I think maybe there’s a bit of something else going on here that you might be projecting a bit. First, he’s not “constantly” bringing it up. In fact, it sounds like he hasn’t really touched the subject until she mentioned something about wanting to lose weight. I’m in a very similar situation with someone who is…

Regarding letter #2, I was in that sort of situation, with the ex threatening suicide every time I tried to break up with her.

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My cat was 23. I had to put her to sleep in February. Up until the last month of her life though she was the same cat she’d always been - played with laser pointers, hissed at everything except for me, got up and down the stairs to use her litterbox. She only really showed signs of her age up to the last month of her…

Great article, Beth. Very well explained. We humans have a very weird way of looking at risk. Just look at how anti-vaccine people look at vaccines. The same ones angry about the possibility of cancer of 1 in 100,000 say it’s okay if measles kills 1 in 1,000 because nature and whatnot.

It is no more literally a poison than the dish soap you keep under your sink. Its method of action is specific to enzymes in plants, for starters. Yes, if you drown yourself in it you'll probably have an issue, but that's true of most things. 

But if you look at the actual research on roundup, most lab animals showed NO negative chronic, carcinogenic, nor mutagenic results along with an astronomical LD50. And this wasn’t from some shill study, it was from Cornell, U of Michigan, Oregon State, and U C Davis.

Roundup is NOT GMO, it’s a chemical that kills plants. It can be used in tandem with GMO crops, such that those with a particular gene that has been introduced to the plant won’t be killed by Roundup (glyphosate). What that meant is that farmers could spray the whole field and only kill weeds, not their main crop.

Agreed. But Asians, particularly East Asians, have a record of ingrained cultural superiority and racism that extends much further back in their history than their relatively recent proximity to whiteness and the incredible economic success that they have achieved - on average, and of course, more to some groups than…

You just walk the fuck out with it, those greeters aren’t paying attention. The only thing that stops anyone from shoplifting is their own moral code and the fear of being caught. Employees don’t care and don’t really pay attention.

Tip 20% or stay home. I’m not in the industry, but come on. Don’t be an ass hat, these people are serving you so you can enjoy a night out. Have some common decency people! 

Your take home pay is the tips. I made 2-3x minimum wage, but I received bi-weekly paychecks for $0 dollars.

You're both stupid and an asshole. 

I didn’t work for free. I got paid well over minimum wage while putting myself through college. Added benefit, I took home cash every night whereas other suckers had to wait two weeks to go cash a check.

This is what a server’s paycheck looks like (I kept it from way back in the day to remind myself). Notice that pay rate of $2.13 an hour and the net pay of $0.00? When servers say they live on tips, they mean it.