hey everyone. i mentioned i joined a women’s gym a few weeks ago—still going!! i can’t believe it. this morning i went to a hardbodies class that kicked my ass and then yoga. i am beat. i just ordered delivery and i’m excited: ramen, a hand roll, gyoza. what are you having for dinner?

One of the biggest and most valid issues that people have with progressive liberalism in 2016 is there is absolutely no fucking margin of error ever. Ever. If you say one thing that can be construed as offensive (by people who spend all of their time parsing through each word and inflection of everything everyone says…

I know this is a funny story but in all seriousness, Girl Scouts is a fantastic organization. When the Boy Scouts kicked out leaders who were gay, the Girl Scouts proudly supported their leaders. When the Boy Scouts loudly stated their organization was Christian based, the Girl Scouts said theirs was open to…

No, Coco. “Girl Crush” and “I Kissed a Girl” are not at all the same. Maybe listen to the lyrics?

I’m in the same situation and count myself as a single lady... so, yeah, why not?

Remind me, will this vaccine give me autism, Zika, general sluttiness, or all three?

I actually don’t have a problem with the focus being on the criminal rather than the victims because let’s be honest here, that’s where the story is. what I want to know about is the criminal’s psychology, history, what makes him/her tick, etc. That’s what’s interesting in articles about crimes.

Forgive me for the overwhelming vagueness of this reference, but I remember seeing something on TV maybe 5 years ago about this initiative to educate* girls in remote comunities in Africa.**

Now if only single women would vote with the same urgency as married women?

...My dad cooks for us because the women work in my family. Dad wouldn’t come out of the kitchen for this asshole. (Dad is retired so he has the time to cook for us.)

This type of “logic” reminds me very much of what I had to listen to for years from former coworkers who escaped the Soviet Union to come work in the US. They would swear up and down how terrible socialism is and all the damage it does. They would decry Obama the “socialist” all the time. I’m so glad I’m not currently…

Never thought I’d find a “a Chavez lo tienen enganado” proponent in an English-language blog. Christ almighty, do you wake up this stupid every day, or is it a gradual thing?

Yup, Venezuelan Bernie-supporter right here as well. The problem in Venezuela is not, at least not completely, socialism, although Venezuela’s particular brand of socialism is reinforced by and reinforces Venezuela’s particular brand of corruption. Bernie would be a radically different experience.

Yea, I’m getting tired of seeing that crap. And it’s not like Chavez didn’t steal all the country’s wealth or anything. Oh and Maduro is just a bus driver. He has no qualifications to be president except to have been pals with Chavez.

If someone gets that pointlessly reductionist, I just point out Somalia as the Republican version - no government there to worry about. It is an equally lazy and inaccurate comparison, but it sticks in their craw.

Venezuela is on the verge of bankruptcy because its government is reliant on oil sales for revenue. Oil prices collapsed, and the government began collapsing too.

Yup. Venezuela, like Chicago, is getting used as the one outlying data point to completely prove what Republicans believe. It’s an anecdote that tells a story, which can easily be proven false by the ubiquitous data which shows socialist policies work in most of the nations where they are properly administrated.

You can't expect them to understand the impact of different cultural settings on the various implementations of socialism. Plus they regularly vote for American clowns who make a bozo like Maduro look competent and responsible in comparison.

It also ignores the fact that the only reason why pre-Chavez Venezuela wasn’t “on the verge of bankruptcy” is because, while the old pro-capitalist regime also stole wealth left and right, it wasn’t simultaneously trying to maintain social welfare systems to benefit the public. People who piss about post-Chavez…

Coming from a failed faux socialist state, I wouldn’t call Bernie anything close that. I don’t understand where the fear of occasional wealth redistribution comes from. We as a species need to have a certain set of things we can agree on. One, if you’re spewing shit without evidence for it, it’s conspiracy. The world…