Hot Take: don’t distract from labor rights and worker protections by claiming a job is so demeaning it shouldn’t exist. Labor is not degrading; labor for little or no pay, without health and safety protections, with harassment and abuse is degrading.

The Apricot Ashtray says “Pffffft! That’s nothing.”

Nope, I can not see him without mentally replacing him with Richmond from the IT Crowd.

There was an interview with him in Rolling Stone a few months ago (maybe longer, I’m bad at time) where he said that he “requires sexual congress” no less than 5 times per day, but up to 10.

It’ll be interesting watching him try to block his divorce court dates into that schedule.

Just reading that was exhausting. I think I’m going to take a nap. Who’s with me?

Mom drunk is the best. My mom doesn’t have eyebrows, was born without them, so always draws them in (really well, I might add, with powder not pencil). Anyway, cut to me in college, living at home still. They went out for their anniversary and split a bottle of wine. She was loaded. I was in the living room, she was…

My mom is a transplanted Midwestern lady living in a small island town in south Texas. There are a lot of great stories I could tell about her (she was briefly Mormon because the only church within walking distance of her family’s farm was a Mormon temple and then she got a scholarship to BYU and, as she likes to tell…

So my mom died when I was 6 from cancer. At my kindergarten “graduation” I was getting a special citizenship award and was really excited about it. The evening of the ceremony, I remeber my mom laying on the couch obviously in a ton of pain. I, being 6, was oblivious and demanded she get ready for my graduation. She…

My little sister came home one day sobbing and said “my friend hung himself.” My mom patted her on the shoulder and said, “hanged.”

Yeah....they did....except where? I searched 538 for all tags under ‘Deflate gate’ ‘ballghazi’ ‘tom brady’ ‘new england patriots’ and just ‘BAAAAAAAAWLZ’ and there is literally not one article from before the report came out that claims what you say. If it exists it’s not filed accurately under any of the many tags…

• Yes, The Daily Mail, Chris Hemsworth’s bulging biceps are exactly what everyone’s looking at here. [The Daily Mail]

An “incurious congratulator of the past.” I’m not sure there’s a better succinct summary of Brooks than that right there.

Poor Brooks. All alone. I haven’t been so moved by a man discovering he’s not the center of the universe since back in the 80s when Bob Greene discovered to his horror that having a baby meant that his wife wouldn’t automatically have dinner on the table when he arrived home every evening.

Lucky gal.

Sources report: Likely to also drink them both up.

Pro tip- if your takeaway from this awful story is to make it all about your own personal hurt dudefeels...you might not actually be as “nice” as you think you are.

comes to the comment section of a story about a woman being attacked by a stranger to say fear of being attacked by a stranger is irrational