It is my understanding from the people in my life who are bipolar that the use of medication also has downsides and many bipolar people will go on and off medication during their lives because they don’t like the way they feel when they are on the medication, or think that since they are doing well, they can stop…

i thought all the sniffing was supposed to indicate that he was on coke? Did Kavanaugh actually do that during the hearing? I couldn’t bear to watch the real thing. 

my guess would be that he meant connections in the sense of a person who is not qualified but has a family that makes a major donation or has a powerful friend put in a good word with the admissions board. I think it’s not unusual for students to have some type of family legacy. He could also have just been lying (and…

I just watched the clip and Evan Ross wears TWO different giant fedoras? I wonder how many he owns. 

Do people like her? 

Noah/Noa is a female name in Hebrew and Japanese. The name of the guy who built the ark would be properly pronounced as “No-akh” in Hebrew. 

I’ve been on petfinder a lot lately, and I think Penny has ascended as the most popular new dog name. 

I just looked her up and watched a youtube video of her “daily morning routine” from 2016 when she was like, 13 years old. She repeatedly refers to hair elastics as “ponytails” and nothing has ever made me so irritated. She also wears full foundation makeup, contouring powder, highlighter powder and shimmer powder on…

Agreed. Asking everyone to go on vacation with you does not entitle you to a free vacation. My friend had a country weekend bachelorette party and a lot of the women going worked with her at a nonprofit and one friend was a grad student flying in for the weekend. The bride paid to rent the AirBnB so that the only cost…

He probably signed a contract binding him to all five movies. It’s common for movies that have sequel potential. 

Yes, but I think that’s by choice. He seems like a guy who just likes being an actor and didn’t want the teen idol superfame. He turned down Fifty Shades of Grey. Same with Dan Stevens from Downton Abbey, who left the show and went on to do a bunch of theater work. I can respect that there are some people who just…

I’m pleased to vote for her on Thursday, although I agree that she seems to have created confusion about herself. Mostly I’m pissed that Dilan has attacked her for being a gentrifier living in a “market rate” apartment, as if those of us who were not born in the 1950s ever had the option to secure a rent controlled…

WAIT, she played a married woman in Love Actually, and she was EIGHTEEN??? 

nah, she wanted off the show to do other things. Brits don’t sign the same long term contracts for TV shows that are typical in the US. It’s why Matthew left too. I agree that she was the best character. 

Subway is welcome to sell more expensive sandwiches, but everyone else is selling $8-$10 sandwiches with real meat in them, not the turkey/soy hybrid that Subway peddles. 

Considering that she was giving an answer on the spot while being televised, she may have misspoken. I assume that she was trying to say that tourists could make it clear to other countries that when our trash president denigrates them and threatens to withhold monetary aid, that he does not speak on behalf of all…

I have a friend who was a pretty successful model, both runway and print. She said there were far fewer eating disorders than you might think. Women dieted, but full blown anorexia was rare because it’s really hard to do the job and maintain dewy skin/lush hair if your body is eating itself. Most models are just kind…

As a Patriots fan, this one was much easier to take than last year’s or the one before. Not nearly as mean. 

People don’t like to be corrected. It makes them feel badly and then you feel badly because they are mad at you. Unless they are doing something actually dangerous, just leave it be and feel smug on the inside that you know more than they do. You’ll feel better and so will they. My pet peeve is that pretty much…

Mine when people use “ambivalent” to mean that they don’t care about either option instead of caring about both options equally. Like “disinterested,” it seems like common usage is pushing the word into a new definition and I just have to accept that I will lose this battle.