Here, here. There is nothing like working a retail job to turn an ordinary person into cynic and misanthrope. And it’s not that every customer is rude and aggressive, but there are enough of them on a daily and weekly basis to make you feel like you are a human punching bag.

I was an adult when Kids came out in 1995 and I remember reading about the film in various publications and based on what I read, I decided I wouldn’t see it. At the time, I was hanging out with lots of artists who relished their counter-culture credibility and when I told them I thought the film sounded exploitative,…

I feel sorry for people who had an emotional investment in Gwen Stefani because as someone who never listened to her music or paid little attention to her early career, from my extremely limited perspective today she seems like the human equivalent of a Walmart product. (BTW - I realize this is probably too harsh of…

I get why she is close to him but I still don’t like the character!

I hope June doesn’t end up with Nick. I don’t understand the appeal of Nick as a character to June.

I hear you. I know this is dumb, but if it is confirmed he is attending an evangelical church, it is likely I will never watch another one of his comedy specials.

Like so many young people, I was bullied constantly from the time I entered elementary school until I graduated from high school. I was one of those weird kids who was overweight, geeky, unathletic, had acne, braces, glasses and was considered “ugly by most of the boys I went to school with.” One of my biggest…

My dad is fat-phobic and I can say that his treatment of me as a young person significantly destroyed my self-esteem and lead to years of sorrow and mental agony. I will never forgive him for the way he treated me and he is 95 years old. If I were this women - I would divorce her husband because his hatred of fat…

I have to disagree with you - his anti-vax stance probably has something to do with his religious beliefs. Having been raised a JW (though admittedly I left the church long ago) and knowing many Kingdom Hall members over the years and reading widely about the “religion” in books and articles - it is safe to say in…

While Salma Hayek’s background is more modest, her father owned an industrial-equipment firm and was an oil company executive in Mexico and her mother, Diana Jiménez Medina, was an opera singer and talent scout. She wasn’t exactly a pleb growing up and she made a lot of money herself. She is rich and so his her…

Good for you, but I would absolutely stop talking to my family if they have done what the Kushner family and Trump family has done and if don’t know what crimes they have committed - you should read the New York Times, the Washington Post and Propublica and countless other media outlets. I am amazed you think what…

I would stop talking to my relatives (even my mother and father and my sisters and brothers) and would condemn them publicly. Karli and her husband just purchased a 23 million dollar house in Miami down the street from Ivanka and Jared’s new home. If your brother and sister in law were a part of this mafia family who…

I tried isn’t good enough.

“Ms. Ponsetto is a prime example of those who are granted whiteness and quickly learn how to wield it against others.”

Thank you for this comment. Turning people into consumers has been a pernicious tendency, I have noticed for the last 25 years. I observed this first in library school in the early 1990s when one of my professors (a business librarian) who told us that we should not refer to our clients as patrons but rather we should…

Reading your post made me a little teary-eyed knowing how difficult life is now for healthcare workers and individuals who work with the public. As someone who has had a rather slightly bitter view of humanity for my entire life and who has in the past worked retail - witnessing the bad behavior of others even has…

My sister reminded me a couple of days ago about her friends who were once neighbors of Hilaria and Alex in Manhattan. They liked Alex but loathed Hilaria. I guess she was insufferable. She is just exactly what you would think she would be.

My first thought after hearing about her lying about her “Spanish” heritage was what kind of non Spanish family from the US owns a “summer” house in Majorca? So after hearing she grew up in extremely affluent town outside of Boston it is not shocking to hear her family is LOADED and hopefully they are a bit…

Of course you do because it is superior

I agree. She was never cool.