I work in philanthropy and I have LOTS of opinions about people trying to rehab their images with well-timed big gifts. The Kushners will have to think very carefully about what institution to give big money to, because many are likely to reject it due to the attendant publicity that would come with it. I am more and…

I am genuinely conflicted by this. The dude had won a James Beard award and the woman had not. They clearly don’t have identical resumes. Like, maybe that award is also a misogynist/discriminatory institution. But wouldn’t the paper also pay more for reporters who had won pulitzer prizes?

Because people who don’t know how to be happy are extremely angry that other people do

Good, more sugar cookies for me 

We gotta save it for after the midterms! And then we gotta save it until Biden or a democrat secures another term, at which point there is another midterm to think about saving it for!

Yeah, usually the army is the one who actually does the coup-ing. 

I was in college when Massachusetts legalized same-sex marriage in 2004. I was living in Cambridge, and the mayor ordered city hall to open at 12:01 the next morning to start issuing marriage licenses, and it literally turned into a huge party up and down Mass Ave. It was the first time ever in America that gay people…

Nah, we still have the right to flout bigotry in public -and in fact, doing so doesn’t keep you off the supreme court or out of the white house. You just might have to occasionally hear people sharply criticize you and hold you to account for your actions, which is more than these idiots can bear.

What should my balance be if I’ve switched jobs so many times that I have two 401Ks, two 403bs, several different roth IRAs, and a public pension plan that I just barely vested in? I sometimes feel like I need an accountant just to figure out what my total retirement savings actually add up to. Every time I ask if I…

I mean, maybe, but as the photog said, they’re lawyers so they should probably understand that’s not how any of this works. 

I dunno if the FCC is really in the business of telling politically unpopular people, even people who are wife-beating shitheads, that they aren’t allowed on talking heads shows. Like yeah the FCC is ineffective now but I don’t see how a more effective FCC results in de-platforming people we don’t like, even the…

“Relaxed the dress code” is putting it mildly. I highly doubt a prep school like this (stuffy, rich, east coast) would allow students to dye their hair pink or wear flashy jewelry or a tweed suit or a miniskirt with cowboy boots.

My husband and I had this gigantic bong (it was at least two feet tall, made of glass and very elaborate) that we used pretty frequently. We are not big bong smokers, but we really liked it.

It’s genuinely surprising to me that the “gay person brings partner home to parents who don’t know the person is gay” storyline hasn’t been hashed over already.

Sure, and Crash got good reviews at first but then after it won Best Picture everybody decided it was garbage. This conversation is sort of meaningless. I, personally, wouldn’t dismiss this one so quickly because I think it gives the academy too much credit.

In its review of Green Book, the NY Times said “there’s not much here you haven’t seen before, and very little that can’t be described as crude, obvious and borderline offensive, even as it tries to be uplifting and affirmative.” Yet it won the Oscar for best picture *in addition to* acting.

Uh little kids? This is not out of left field. 

On one level I agree with you. On the other hand, to be fair, it often doesn’t take much digging to find insincerity. I don’t think this article is digging for anything.

I guess I have to commend you for writing so . . . much in response to my dismissive comment. At the very least, you are committing. 

To me the funniest thing is that Fox News kinda HAS to refer to Obama’s statements and play some video of Obama in order to take the audience on the journey to the Trump ass-licking part. But then Trump calls and gets mad anyway. He doesn’t even want them to acknowledge Obama exists, because it upsets him. Compare me…