This is like the story Chuck Palahniuk likes to tell about how the boxes of fake severed limbs he gives out at readings/signings once got shipped a day early to a bookstore and were accidentally given to Aron Ralston...

Ellen sets my heart aflutter.

YES I am so glad someone else sees that.

why does every wax figure look like it's thinking about butts

Women can eat perfectly fine in normal restaurants, provided we only ever order the half portion grilled chicken Caesar salad, dressing far enough on the side to remain untouched.

Yeah I predict people won't calibrate their color displays properly for their work environment and lighting.

100 dresses, though? I think the real message to get across here is that, regardless of gender, it is OKAY to wear the same outfit more than once a week.

If you are having anal sex with eight of your friends, I am nothing but impressed.

I would definitely be up for gator.

Seriously, I thought it was referring to some sort of strange group of Romney holdouts.

No, that's exactly what I was complaining about, that very narrow view of the scope of the Holocaust and who was involved.

After living with geese on a farm and seeing the ones at the park try to attack my dog, the only geese for which I do not harbor complete antipathy are goslings. Because little fluffy things with big feet are unhateable.

I got the impression that she learned she was pregnant 1-2 weeks in, then had an abortion sometime later.

This is one of those situations where you feel like perhaps crowdsourcing things like satellite images just needs to happen, but at the same time crowdsourcing can go terribly wrong.

It's like the people who insist there were no planes to hit the WTC towers— "They were missiles! Oh, you say you have tons of eye witnesses who saw the planes, certainly the second one? Well they were still not planes, they were DEFINITELY missiles with PLANE HOLOGRAMS on them, obviously."

I made it up, though I must credit my dogs with the inspiration.

The REAL QUESTION is why do you want to posit, "Are Jews just being sneaky for financial gain?"

There are some very, very deep personal motivations at play if you think that question is truly worth asking.

By trying to brush off the Holocaust as divorced from historical Jewish persecution, as simply an invention for outside forces of "Western Business," you totally ignore the historical genocides and ethnic cleansing that led to this one.

There's a lot of grossness here that I don't have the emotional strength to tackle.

I am not, actually. My family is Jewish, mostly Ashkenazim. Romani people experienced a massive population loss, with higher estimates suggesting around 1/2 of their people dying (for Jews, it was around 1/3); there is unfortunately less data on exact population figures for Romani pre-war, but it was certainly…

It's one thing to ask questions like, "Should we characterize German civilians as culturally complicit in the events of the Holocaust, or should we see their collaboration with Nazi policies as acting under duress?" It's another thing to ask, "Should we believe Jews when they talk about 6 million of their people…