Don't assume the original commenter doesn't know what constitutes print mixing. I really do understand the concept of eclectic mixes of print and design and find this to be poorly executed.

Ugly, busy and tired. Target is sort of losing its mojo if this is supposed to be a great design offering for them. Ugh. It even looks cheap in the photograph.

Rural poverty is savage, but so is urban poverty.

I live in Indiana, near the border of Illinois. The Northern part of the state is old school conservative. Not great, but not crazy. The southern part of the state is a bastion of racism and ignorance, even though IU is there, and IU is a fantastic school. Bloomington is an island of sanity in a sea of stupid madness.

Very overweight people are hired in education, nursing, HR, you name it. In the Midwest, we are forgiving.

I'm gonna get hated on for this, but you might want to rethink this guy. People are getting jobs now. It's not a fabulous job market, but it seems, reading between the lines, that your guy is not beating the bushes.

It was not your fault that dweebs got unpleasant.

That's awful, and I am truly sorry you experience that. I know it goes on a lot.

We have had a substantial black population for over 100 years. Fifty years for Hispanic/Latino. Of course people mix.
To be blunt about it, I live in a very nice neighborhood. All professionals. Across the street is a couple who are of Mexican descent. He is a small business owner, she is a nurse practitioner. The…

That is fully awesome! You know, you can buy a little butter make that that let's you shake cream to butter in three minutes. I got one from Amazon a few years back. The butter tastes awesome!

Yep. I am a deeply agnostic (very nearly atheist) lapsed Catholic, but I find the shrill anti-religion tone at all of Gawker media troubling. It's like the people who write about the "Iron Age sky god" or whatever the hell they say, don't realize that they are as judgmental and narrow minded as the worst of the…

Thank you for this. I live in the middle of nowhere in the Midwest, and it's like people on Jez assume we all must be stupid know nothing, low information voters.

Oh you'd get invited to my house. That's the good thing about small towns. Classes mix way more. The factory worker and the lawyer may easily belong to the same book club. Plus, I know a lot of really smart working class people who actually have excellent jobs, cool hobbies and lovely homes. Hell, my husband is the…

Well, I don't know where you live , but my county is 30 percent Hispanic/Latino,15 percent black and has a rising Asian population. It's a vey rural place as well .

Truly, the attitude at Gawker media is that if you are not coastal (as in Bosh-Wash or LA or San Francisco) you don't really exist. It's a little better at Jezebel, but not that much.

I like Lindy (I think in part because I was once quite overweight), but everything you said about Erin is spot on. Also, she is so casually ageist, it's shocking. It appears those of us over 45 should curl up and die or so something.

In the US, 99.99 percent of us are one or two generations from outdoors shithouse poor.

Yes, the plastic surgery acceptance is a bit odd. I mean, if I had an extraordinarily enormous nose or extremely lopsided breasts, I'd get surgery. But as an aging woman, I can say that self acceptance makes both men and women attractive.

He never, ever will. And the zero turning radius mower thing can take up an hour of snooze inducing Sunday conversation.

I get what you mean now. And you are right about New York and asking about holidays. My family has heavily intermarried with Jewish people to the point where I have observant Jewish first cousins, seriously Catholic aunts, and a whole lotta agnostics closely related to me. But a big branch of my family is in New York,…