The BS-ery of the job of FLOTUS will stop when we have a FGOTUS. I guarantee that once the spouse of POTUS is a man the job of the FSOTUS will become either more substantial or it’ll go away altogether.

There used to be more lawyers in Congress. Currently, 1/3rd of the House are lawyers, and just under half of the Senate are. This has been trending down since they started taking data on it. I can’t find a breakdown by party, but I’m sure the rise of the Tea Party didn’t increase the overall education level in…

How come no one talks about the wait times in the US? Have “great” insurance and need to see a specialist? It could be six months before an appointment opens up with a doctor that accepts your insurance. I have to wait three months for an appointment with my dermatologist for an annual screening.

My parents hate Obama for requiring them to have health insurance. They are positive that M4A will mean the government taking 70% of their paychecks and refuse to listen to anyone who says different. They both have significant health issues and neither has employer-sponsored insurance, so their premiums and…

Yeah, and could we PLEASE have a hand-wringing article about wait times in the US?! They’re like, really not that different!

Hey, everybody:

I thought he died of cardiac arrest due to diabetes?

There was an audible groan in the theater I was in when a trailer for this came on. That groan came when it got to the “Director Clint Eastwood” part. It was like everyone in the theater knew exactly what angle this fucker was going to take—a great/innocent man aggrieved by the feminized system, American masculinity…

Oh, does Jon Hamm’s character do the exact same thing, Olivia? He does? The FBI agent tries to trade sex for evidence and is rejected with a pithy insult? Because that would be an interesting plot piece; we almost never see sexy male investigators seducing witnesses for clues.

For some reason, Clint Eastwood and the other makers of Richard Jewell decided that the tragic story needed a retelling with the addition of a spicy suggestion that Kathy Scruggs fucked for tips.

Looks like:

Sick Semper Tyrannis

Does that even imply teen girls have low standards? If I said Twilight is fine for teen girls, but shouldn’t be the choice for a college’s required freshman read, wouldn’t that generally be understood as being about Twilight and not teen girls? After all, Twilight is literally a book intended for teen girls. It’s…

Well, for one thing Dessen would had to have gone out of her way to find that quote. In any event, even if it is inevitable that at some point, because of a bad day or bad series of days you will lash out at someone who doesn’t and deserve it and accuse them of something they didn’t do (it’s not) that doesn’t make it…

Plenty of times. Did I then turn to social media so that my thousands of fans could help me pile on a single person? No. No one handed Sarah Dessen a clipping from the local news in Aberdeen, South Dakota, saying “you’ve got to see this”. She sought that out, and then felt so hurt that the internet didn’t return…

So Nelson didn’t say “these books are only for teenage girls,” speaking of taking Nelson at her word and not putting things in her mouth. Maybe abide by your own standards, you have already set, about not being an internet stranger who interprets her words for her.

She didn’t join the committee to prevent anyone from being exposed to it, she joined the committee because she didn’t think that Dessen’s work, which was apparently under consideration, was up to the standards of what the program was supposed to be. How is that an issue that she had a particularly strong opinion about…

Yes, yes they do. “S/he doesn’t act like that at home”

...yes? Go talk to literally any teacher, anywhere. If a child misbehaves, it’s *always* the *teacher’s* fault, duh.

Giuliani’s looking better than I would have thought, given his age.