I can’t imagine how brave this young man is. To be in high school and to have your community and country scrutinizing your identity, body, and bathroom habits seems like the most humiliating experience ever, and he and other members of the trans community face this head on every day. I still get embarrassed discussing…

I know this shouldn’t be the takeaway, but I CANNOT get over how much sex this guy is having. I physically don’t think I could do it, anally or otherwise. I don’t have that kind of stamina. I also don’t think I could ever pull that many partners, even if I lost 50 pounds and got a boob job. He must be physically…

Yes! It was Italian and she was auditioning for King Kong. She mentoned it in an interview with Graham Norton.

Ehh... I don’t agree totally. The most effective healthcare systems are both government operated and are in much smaller and/or more homogenized societies. A notable few of them are bankrupting their respective governments. We haven’t seen a fully public healthcare system of the same scale that would be necessary to…

I think we here can all agree a privatized system was a failure. I think the ACA is not great by any means (see my earlier comment about the govt. not being a good administrator), but it was certainly a step in the right direction.

Agreed, which is why this is a perfect opportunity for regulation. There are certain issues that are never going to improve in a privatized system and this is one of them. Health care in general is one, as proven by the pre-ACA era. Not a perfect example, but relevant.

I’ve always been a supporter of smaller govt whenever possible (mostly because I do not believe the govt is NOT an effective administrator), but this is 100% an instance when governmental regulation would be appropriate. A monopoly is never a good thing and ultimately harms consumers, sometimes fatally as in this…

The lawyers do have a point about being able to dissolve other contractial obligations (e.g. marriage). This makes my inner contract/IP lawyer want to read up in the legalities invloved in all this.

You beat me to it!! Such a good episode. I like to listen while I’m commuting and I ended up getting in late to finish this one.

This might seem like weird advice, but try your best not to get too attached to the house yet. I grew up moving around every few years and have continued that trend (though to a lesser extent) as an adult. Put your cold, logical birch hat on and get ready to do some work. Do not buy the house in your mind yet, if that…

YES. THIS. I live behind a prosperity gospel preacher and get physically nauseous every time I think about what he’s doing. We live in the suburbs in a very expensive neighborhood (my SO bought our house in an estate situation and it was a dump...we’re still working on fixing it up) and our preacher neighbor has SEVEN…

Cried this morning because there was a dead squirrel on the street on the way to breakfast. We passed it on the way back home and I cried again. Then I cried because the coffee was burnt. Then I almost pooped in my adorable new leggings on my walk with the dogs. So naturally I cried again. So going well, I think.

Alright, here we go. Not sure if you’re worried about schools, but we don’t have kids so I don’t know a ton about districting/etc. Dekalb/Fulton counties might be out of your price range (they are where the city proper is located) but Gwinnett is the next county out and has wonderful parks, good schools so property…

We need to be friends. Also in Atlanta and jusy finished the first season of Mis Fisher!! After dinner, I had to CARRY each of my dogs outside and into the yard, then back inside because they’re native southerners and can’t handle anything below 50 degrees. They have me trained so well.

Atlanta!!! We bave virtually no snow and the city shuts down just bc of the threat of it (see: right now), though we do still have seasons...sort of. We’ve got killer food, plenty of healthcare jobs, lots of diversity, great music, AND YOU’RE SO CLOSE TO THE MOUNTAINS if you like hiking, camping, pretending to be a…

I am in the same boat!! Red hair, pale skin, and I’ve got pink undertones so every red lipstick makes my face/head look even more red. Tried an orangier red and that was a no go. I have more twice-used-and-thrown-in-a-drawer red lipstick than should be reasonable. The best so far are:

According to my Baptist upbringing, that’s exactly what the Antichrist would say.

Now I know what im watching tonight. Bernadette Peters is almost singlehandedly the reason I’ve (somewhat) lovingly embraced my curly red hair. It’s definitely bordering on clown hair, as I was informed so often as a kid, but she always rocks it.

Absolutely. When the online watch list things first came out, my mom checked our neighborhood and found out that the couple living down the street with their adult son were marked as having a sex offender living there. She and the other moms freaked out and one of the moms caked the police and was told the adult son…

I LOVE that song, and someone told me it’s abojt masturbatiin, which makes it all the better as far as im concerned. And I’ve heard it in an ad (Geico, I think?) recently and actually guffawed.