How about Ted Shakleford as Gary Ewing? Knots Landing was the thinking man’s nighttime soap.

Jez writers are outspoken in their advocacy against the “incarceral state”, yet the glee they show about this woman going to prison tells on them.

Rich is exhibit A in the case against unions.

I’m sorry did you say something?  I was too engrossed in this issue of the Utne Reader.

It is my belief that the readers of Jez are at least a decade if not two older than the writers and it creates a weird mix of James Charles/Bella Thorne with Ellen DeGeneres/Brad Pitt.

Not to mention, at least in MN, most private schools have reopened for in-person learning, the suburban public schools are hybrid and the urban public schools (serving the most low income families) are 100% distance learning.

How about we just let this gal go? Just let her fade away into her career as a suburban real estate agent.  What does she bring to the table that thousands of other youngish women don’t offer?  She had the golden ticket opportunity to be famous and well-paid for no reason and she blew it.  Let’s give someone else a…

And the last name La Bombera?! That’s like something a junior high kid would make up for prank phone calls.  

Yeah, I think Karen is pretty much just a semi-acceptable way of calling someone a bitch. White men really seem to have seized on it and love to hurl it around with anyone who dare not kowtow to them.

Yeah, I think at this point a “Karen” is any white woman who is a busybody you disagree with. A Karen is the woman who harangues teenagers riding bikes for not social distancing, but she is also the woman who loudly proclaims her refusal to wear a mask at Target.

Absolutely young white women do this, too. But Boomers bring that added element of thinking they should be deciding the future of every organization, despite there being two generations of fully grown women who will be living with their decisions for decades to come. 

Seeing her picture reminds me to recommend to everyone, but especially to Stephen Miller, the book The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett.

Peak Boomer shit.

Is this Zuckerberg?

Yeah, having trauma doesn’t mean you can’t also be carrying Covid-just like a person with autism can be carrying Covid, or a person with claustrophobia or breathing issues or cognitive disabilities.  Places you really have to go-like the grocery store-offer alternatives like curbside pickup or delivery so you don’t…

Did Kate Middleton win something at the claw game?!  Some people are just born under a lucky star.

Reading it, I kept trying to cast it in my head-who is a Black woman who really looks like a white “French” woman and not, for instance, Latina or Indian or Native American, which I think, in the context of the book, wouldn’t have been acceptable either?

This is great! There used to be a commenter on Gawker who was: a black lesbian boarding school/Ivy-educated lawyer with mental health and substance abuse issues, from an old money East Coast family, who had “good hair” and was married to a white female ER doctor who looked like Olivia Wilde.  Then she got lymphoma…

I know we’ve all felt like the Greek’s Cassandra throughout this whole thing, but, since the schools closed in the spring, getting the kids back in school this Fall should have been the number one social/community (ie non-medical) priority across the board.