Don’t forget that some of their favorite “religious leaders” also preach the prosperity gospel and firmly believe bad things don’t happen to good people who give them enough money.

The Forsyte Saga all the way - the new one with Damien Lewis and Gina McKee! Not a ton of horny, but so much jealousy, tension, unrequited (and requited) love, everything!

Do you seriously believe that Congressional GOPers who have shown nothing but willingness to hand their consciences and their souls over to Trumpy (with big red bows and a smile) will do ANYTHING to stop the corruption and abuses of power we already see on the horizon? I see a vast expansion of executive power under a…

I made the mistake of taking a look at the foxnews.com coverage - nothing at all about the ridiculous comments about campus violence, nothing about guns b/c of rampaging grizzly bears, and nothing about SpecEd funding, just lots of lovely stroking about how charter schools will save us all and DeVos is a special…

I may be exaggerating juuuuuust a little bit...DRAAAAHMA! To be fair, there is something about Cheesetoes’ cabinet just about every day, so some of the list is fairly focused.

I am getting tired of walking around wanting to sock people in the nose, but everyday there is something like this...and the list of potential punch-ees grows longer.

I have to put in my plug for SBA all over the country - if you live anywhere north of the Mason-Dixon Line, chances are pretty good she was in your state at some point. Many years she traveled more than she stayed home and I love her house in Rochester (so what, I teared up in front of senior faculty members...it just…

YES! A video I can watch with my 9 year old niece and not worry about body messages.

If I could give multiple stars for the drinking, I would. We should post a list of cocktail recipes, but I am pretty sure vodka straight from the bottle or lots of beers will be my eventual response to all of this.

This post on politifact has a good deal of background on that part of the issue (look at the date - a whole freaking year):

Sorry, meant consulate, not embassy - in trying to shorten what was a much longer answer, I didn’t proof very well.

Speaking as someone who grew up in an emotionally-repressed midwestern family, sometimes the most emotion we saw from the older generation came when we were all watching sports together.

There is a long list of the allegations and the documented evidence refuting/proving them here: http://www.mediamatters.org/research/2016/06/28/comprehensive-guide-benghazi-myths-and-facts/211240

But it feeeeels like this could happen right now (hence my increased ice cream intake and obsessive news-reading) - I am not being sarcastic, it really does.

Same. The online stuff, combined with the fact that you can’t go to high school or college without getting some sort of “your online behavior is here forever” speech/handout/poster is one of the things that baffles me when we see things like this - presumably, if you go to Harvard, you realize that somebody somewhere…

I understand that very well, but in this case, I am only referring to the way Trump and his supporters brushed off the recorded conversation that reminded the media what he was really like and the way the women from the soccer team (very effectively) referenced the phrase in their reply.

Thanks for the link, I read the whole piece on the Crimson site - these women are amazing.

It has been d-bag central since the 1990s at least (grad school alum here) - once it got a reputation as a party school where you could get an actual education, rich parents felt okay sending their kids and kids wanted to go. Not that the only d-bags were rich kids, but they were the ones that didn’t have to work full…

I kept picking the Hawkins title up at the bookstore - never pulled the trigger, but will now!

BTW, YES to Bird Box...so, so good and different and memorable and scary as hell. Ghost Story by Peter Straub is an old-school spooky tale, but will have you turning on all the lights (it is a little King-y in the “old friends reunited” vein, but it works sooooo well). If you want just a really scary mystery that will…