you're not entirely wrong, but billy completely lost any benefit of the doubt with me by essentially throwing his then co-worker under the bus by objectifying her with donald trump (nancy o'dell was the nancy that they were referring to in the conversation). access hollywood isn't great but i thought it hadn't yet…

It's a trade off for many people. These voters are what pundits like to call voting blocs. Crafty politicians who don't actually do anything for their constituents but want to get re-elected generate phantom issues that are threatening the very fabric of our society (see transgender bathrooms) in order to galvanize…

If you really want to know more about this I suggest you check out a two part episode called The Problem We All Live With put out by the This American Life podcast. It really does a good job of explaining the history of school integration in America and why it hasn't worked for the most part. Fair warning, it can get…

That scene in particular hit me so hard because I love pad thai. I used to shamelssly get it to go every two weeks at my favorite thai restaurant during college (I was too cheap to eat it there and then tip) . One time I got the snapper and some lemon rice because my brother was in town and I wanted to step out of my…

That could be. Other reality competitions have used the "bring your mother to work" gimmick, to similar effect. Across the board, when families are invited to visit the contestants or to help them with challenges, the contestants become distracted from the competition. Usually their quality of work takes a nose dive,…

I know this is petty, but I'd be able to handle Alaska winning the crown if she hadn't basically locked up most of the LSFYLs. There is no cash prize for second place so Alaska stands to win a substantial amount of money if she also gets the crown.

Alaska has been getting good to great edits this season up until this episode. She has no reason to complain about a bad edit this episode, especially since no one forced her to say those things. It's hard to sympathize with someone who has been killing it in the challenges and who, apparently, cannot lose a LSFYL…

The worst part was that her confessionals from earlier in the episode came off as arrogant and almost gleeful at her competitors' frustration. She was very happy to sit on that pedestal counting her 30k with the crown a foregone conclusion, but as soon as she was in the bottom she couldn't distance herself from her…

yesss. i hate to say it, because i think the 10k tip should be earned and not given out of pity, but really Ru?? Can you not spread the love around to the person who is probably a shoe in for second place (and therefore won't receive any cash prize)? It's not like alaska isn't going to have financial success once the…

the possible problem with that strategy is that it can backfire on you if everyone else is employing the same idea. alaska has to guarantee that she is never in the bottom, especially with roxxy, or else she could find herself on the wrong end of her own strategy (but this will never happen because alaska and the…

Exactly. I respect the strategy that Alaska is clearly competing by, but at least try to make it seem like she isn't being heavily favored. Alaska had a good lip sync performance, but Katya's performance was more true to the spirit of the song, heavy clunky boots included.

to be very honest, i personally think it would be a huge stain on this country if trump lost this election by less than 10 points. Sure, the most important thing is that trump doesn't win. However, if trump only loses by a little we still have to live with the unsettling thought that there are a lot of people out…

most of the polls that put trump in a dead heat with clinton have really small study sample sizes to begin with. on top of that, most people are still polled via landline. you can imagine that there is probably a healthy overlap between people who communicate almost exclusively by landline and trump supporters.

that would be something if her former fanbase and co anchors accused her of asking for it because she dressed in a way that was tacitly (read explicitly) required of her from day one on the job. gotta get those eyeballs to tune in but somehow make them think that you're still all about family values; it's what i like…

there is (was) the magic mike franchise. the plot was equally as mindless as 50 shades but I will defend that franchise until I'm out of breath. MM, and esp. its sequel, went in the complete opposite direction of 50 shades by elevating female sexual gratification to near god like status. It did not hurt at all that…

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that's the worst part of this whole thing. dwts lives and breathes for manipulated story lines to create false drama. these protestors just handed lochte the underdog redemption arc that his publicist was hoping he'd get but wasn't sure because ryan lochte still has to speak during this competition.

The worst part was another queen, acid betty, has done nancy grace before and similarly flamed out during snatch game. At judging panel Carson Kressley critiqued acid betty's performance and then proceeded to spell out, step by step, how she could have done a nancy grace impression suited for snatch game. So when I…

so you ryan lochte'd the situation?

The VMAs are such a long production every year that I don't understand how anyone could think it a good idea to bring kids to sit without getting bored. When I was their age I couldn't stay awake past 11 to save my life. I too was starting to feel sorry for them until I saw the woman next to them, who I assume to be…