Utah is where old weird British accents, much reduced today thanks to radio and television, went. Older Utahns say “fark” for “fork”; this probably is because a very large portion of 19th-century Mormon converts were from North Yorkshire—pronounced by locals as “Narth Yarkshire.”

Loved this. It so so so sums up my life politically—I grew up in rural Kentucky in a very conservative Southern Baptist family. When I registered to vote when I was 18, I registered Independent, but still voted Republican with my parents. When I was a freshman in college I was on the email list for the campus pro-life…

I’m from an near-third-world country and if you’re a man and don’t cry at your mother’s funeral, you’re going to be the talk of the village. Whoever can’t do the big wailing cry is a pariah who is assumed not to care. Masculinity = geography, history etc. Not as much a thing in itself.

And if you’re a black woman, heaven help your ass. I find Beyonce’s black-girl-magic-as-money-making machine schtick to be very smart. And I understand it, kind of. I guess what I’m saying is that I’m sad that Beyonce is so needed for black women to feel good/pretty/feminine about themselves. It’s embarrassing to me.…

...No. If Philip Roth was allowed to write the same fucking story over and over, about boring, ruthless men on navel-gazing quests for sexual fulfillment — and win prizes for it — and be called one of the greatest writers of his generation — I think we as a culture can afford Beyoncé space to take what is personal to h…

So because she has an album showing the journey of going through some very human and natural reactions to trust being broken in a marriage, it is drama? You think referring to a woman using her music as catharthis, and being honest about how she felt as “drama” isn’t ingrained misogyny? She put him on blast with many…

You mean places without fully developed social safety nets and economic systems? Not sure how those are a relevant comparison.

It’s been discussed around the comments. I’m not sure exactly which option Sony means when they say that b/c I haven’t dug deep but there’s two things:

This is so disgusting. Whether or not the Sony executives believe that Dr. Luke sexually abused and raped Kesha (and I believe her), why are they investing so much time and power against her? She does not want to work with him - do they think they’re going to get number one hits from this situation? Do they think that…

That was masterful, Bobby. I was like “who could it be?!” wondering what level of horror I would reach ... and then the Lovitz shot. Just NO. I actually said, out loud, in my office all alone “NO”.

high priced fundraising dinners in general are bad. that’s the point. the american campaign system is disgusting.

It should be noted that the fundraiser is for the Hillary Victory Fund, which does help Hillary’s campaign, but also donates to down-ticket races. This sort of funding is usually vital for smaller Democratic campaigns, who cannot acquire enough funding on their own to be competitive.

They’re not paying: it’s free to attend the finals of that tournament. And a lot of the folks there are affiliated with other teams at the tournament. (For example, my son was in the tournament last year, and watched these same two teams play in the final of the U11 bracket.) And they close off part of the stadium so…

Well, Obama is known as the “Deporter in Chief,” so I can see why he’d qualify in Mexico.

Little League World Series

How dare she push for something that she was contractually entitled to, how dare she. I’m sure she probably was an asshole in other ways, but I’m on her side in not letting them slide on those ones.

Words, and a bit of vomit, seem to have left me.

While I’m not disagreeing with your main point, SF’s history does include greedy Gold Rushers ignoring the Treaty of Hildago and kicking the ( wealthy) Mexican landowners out, a handful of developers throwing up cheap construction, for all the “new money” arrivals flooding to town, in the form of the now beloved…

The struggle is real.

You know, the only people who have it worse off than white people in this country are rich white people.