This story is such a great testament to both the emotional and the monetary costs of having uninsured people. It is cheaper to treat stage 1 colon cancer than stage 4. It is better for the economy to have people starting small businesses, launching successful freelance careers, etc. without having to worry about…
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You know I’ve surprisingly enjoyed him in his non everyone loves Raymond roles.
True. Both my parents, a sister, a close friend, a college pal, and two close co-workers died while I was in my forties. “Memorializing” them was a balancing act between reconciling my grief, saying diplomatic sentiments (especially for the more flawed among them) and trying not to reflect too much on my own…
Can we please also try not to forget that concentration camps (unlike death camps) have a longer history and were one of the many brilliant inventions of the British Empire? Used first against the native people of Africa? I’d like to be able to say publicly what is an objective historical fact without being branded a…
I actually agree with this point. Having lost family members to the Holocaust—of one branch of the extended family, only two individuals survived the camps—I know that there is no rational conversation on this topic. The horror and the grief and the rage are so immense (and should be) that it seems obscene to impose…
Couldn’t any gangbanger make the same claim? “The murderous, terrifying persona I use on the streets is all an act, it couldn’t be further from my true nature or my personality. I am a loving teddybear on my own time, but my day job representing MS-13 is performance art, and ‘Trigger Mike’ is just a character I play.”
My introduction to this period was also a novel, The Oracle Glass by Judith Merkle Riley. I first read it when I was a teenager and figured it was all made up...got a surprise in college when I learned the Affair of the Poisons and all the black masses and so on really happened!
Me on a conference call when someone suddenly says my name and asks for my thoughts after 45 minutes of doing anything else but listening.
Guys, Trump has done the impossible and made me nostalgic for Bush. I would gratefully trade him into the office of President in a heartbeat. That is how bad things are. And it pisses me off that Trump is making Bush, who was an AWFUL president, be whitewashed with positive sentiment. But here we are.
I absolutely loved Changing Rooms. Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen was amazing. When he got it right, it was genius. He once did a caravan that was beautiful. When he got it wrong (like that red gothic dining-room that was all over the papers), he really messed up. But you could tell he had training in art because he worked…
The first job I had out of grad school was at the UK company that produced the original version of this show, Changing Rooms. One night I was at the pub and I caught the latest episode, wherein one of the couples had a meltdown at how fucking UGLY the result was, including portraits of the couple as Nell Gywnn and…
Aaron Sorkin is genuinely the worst kind of liberal; he is so insistent that both he, and his fellow travelers, are neutral and color-blind that he repeatedly marginalizes women and minorities in an attempt to keep pretending that he’s the good guy and it’s those other guys that are the bad ones. Because if you keep…
Agreed. It sounds like every generic company transition memo I’ve ever had the displeasure of reading.
Christians are persecuted? I don’t see swastikas being spray painted on churches or crosses being burned in their yards en masse. Meanwhile, a Jewish Center near Virginia Tech where my friend teaches was littered with Nazi-themed leaflets and Jewish cemeteries are being decimated. And that’s to say nothing of the…
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Jack Russels are adorable balls of energy. We had one when I was a kid and we’d take him on 14 mile bike rides where he would run behind us at 12 MPH for the entire time. And after we got back, he’d want to go out for more!
Or he just has rosacea (also a scientific term).
She’s 90. If my hands look half as good at her age I’d be delighted.
This is such an unbelievably shitty, rude, bad-faith comment, but let’s outline some of the ways that it’s shitty: