What kind of idiot keeps more money in a single checking account than is insured by FDIC 

I have never been asked or encouraged by my employer to attend a training of any kind that the employer was not planning on paying for.

Even as an uninvolved American, I still see the personal appeal of the current Queen. She has had quite a run and has helped lead the country through thick and thin for 80 years. I really don’t know what it would take to really turn public opinion against her, personally. I have yet to hear a convincing argument that…

Well, Vogue says it’s “effortlessly stylish,” so, there you go

One may also acknowledge that perhaps this arrangement works well for Kate! Maybe this is exactly what she wants. She understands the lane she is in, she knows how to make it work, and that satisfies her, and we don’t necessarily need to analyze it.

Am I crazy for thinking that $2,000 is not such a bad price for this elaborate a bed? Even if you need to spend an extra $XXX on the mattress? I mean, half the couches in furniture stores in my area are $2,000 or more and I spend more time in bed than I do on the couch. Even plain old headboards aren’t usually cheap,…

Americans widely considered Spanish, Italian, Greek, and Balkan people not to be white. This was a common way of thinking right up to the early 20th century and underpins a lot of the immigration debates of earlier times. I strongly suspect there are still a lot of Americans who believe anyone whose origin is south of…

I agree, and yet. He didn’t call anyone a neanderthal. He said that abandoning public health recommendations at the very moment we seem to be winning the fight is “neanderthal thinking.” Should he have maybe anticipated that all these culture warriors would then say “how dare the president call me a neanderthal!”?…

My hyper-conservative in-laws moved to Texas late last year specifically because they wanted to be in a more hyper-conservative environment.

The fact that she isn’t 105% white and of pure European extraction is WAY more of a problem to these people than the fact that she’s a commoner, at least she has some of her own money (which is ultimately 99% of the problem with “commoners” the way they see it.)

I work in the nonprofit sector in Oregon, another place which is thought of as having no black or brown people but plenty of rednecks and white limousine liberals. Guess what, it turns out that even though we only have tens of thousands of black people, as opposed to millions, they don’t deserve to be erased and they…

LOL why so mad that 100 million people are going to watch this interview? Do you feel left out?

I am both impressed and disgusted that some random thirsty-ass hairdresser has one point something million instagram followers. 

Yeah seriously. By far the scariest/weirdest thing about any of this is that a republican, of all people, would think the government has any role whatsoever in policing or even participating in stuff like this. Private citizens and businesses having elaborate beefs with each other is not something the government has…

This is not just the shortsightedness of politicians. Politicians always have to walk a fine line between doing what they know needs to be done, and doing what they know their constituents want/demand of them. I am sympathetic to some of these people. The governor of my state has been doing a solid job holding the…

To be fair nobody had to bring it up - the press is very good at seeing openings for argument, dissent, and drama. I knew something might be amiss the moment the NY Times published their “who is Elizabeth MacDonough?” article a few days before this all really hit the fan. It was essentially a “here comes drama!”…

I am not a Swift fan, not in her target audience, and I know practically nothing about her. But now I know all sorts of things about her romantic life and relationship history, just because this was pushed in my face this week ... because of her tweet. So, yeah, checks out.

Money which she can use to keep herself planted in the public eye. Even if she keeps on getting embarrassed, which is enjoyable to watch, I would SO MUCH RATHER she just slink off and focus on running her HOA or something.

Frankly there is no such thing as a whole state that is a deep blue haven. It all depends on how big and influential your cities are. California, New York, and Illinois also turn bright red as soon as you leave the big cities, sometimes just to drive into the suburbs - to say nothing of other states democrats now…

Nobody will care because she didn’t go to Spago, she went to some restaurant in the Trump Hotel. She didn’t do this at Nobu, she did it at Capitol Grille where Trump had his own table, and at some republican social club. If she had spent even $100 of campaign money at Mission Chinese she would actually be in some…