the casual racism of Cyrus's schtick

It's a way of his obtaining free confirmation from her by invoking the dominant ideology of male-female interaction without even needing to obtain her consent. As a professional, she barely blinks, leaving him free to mentally complete his own narrative. (You can read that as you will.)

Smarmy is it. You nailed it.

I'll have what she's having.

Living in a country with the most pleasant health care system in the world, believe me, Obamacare is not insidious.

She was a bit distracted, but scarcely showed it. And what she got from him is pure gold, she'll be able to dine out on that for months, if not years.

Oh, interesting! All I knew of Guy Fawkes day was the story behind it, not the celebration activities, which I can see are quite different.

Guy Fawkes night was "like a British 4th of July"

Incredible series of posts.

1 in 10 to 1 in 12 trans people are murdered

I have to agree with one of your points. Spending a summer at a monastery in whatever country seems totally reasonable. Criticizing it on bare formalities — especially when there's a family connection! — seems so politically correct it's suffocating.

Can you imagine having a bunch of entitled strangers bothering you all of the time?

Maybe if we taught men to *gasp* respect women as fucking people at an early age instead of as sexual objects there wouldn't be as many boners?

One thing about this friend is that she never fell for the awful Christian fundamentalism of her whole immigrated family — even though she is the youngest. She simply continued to admire certain Buddhist monks she'd met (on a visit back to Korea I think) and some poets and activists. You could say she found a better…

I had similar mixed feelings. It's a little squeamish, because who wants to admit they're impressed by these things?

A Korean friend of mine once referred to the holiday Chuseok as "The Korean Thanksgiving". I appreciated her making it accessible to her listener — she's such a fantastic energy bundle — but still, it seemed a little cheap.

You didn't say why, though.

Exactly. Just because you clapped for the other team doesn't mean you're not football-obsessed. On the contrary, it leaves open the possibility that you'd defend "boys will be boys" even if they play for the other team.

I want to see more movies like that. CT.

Does that mean every woman who gets her period after having unprotected sex should be prosecuted for manslaughter?