Thank you!! :) Now this is a birthday gift I can get behind.

IT DOES. Thank you. :)

To be honest, I would TOTALLY begrudge a celebrity for making money off of sponsored content. It’s basically being paid to lie. And I know models and starlets aren’t exactly known for their unimpeachable morals, but I’m still not cool with it.

John McCain: Not as good a guy or as “moderate” a Republican as the Republicans would have you believe.

The era of all my musical theater friends singing these songs nonstop just BARELY ended! Please, must it return so quickly? Will I never hear the end of “Popular?”

Correction: Brendan O’Brien committed suicide in September, not May. I worked for the Oakland mayor’s office at the time, and I was at the funeral.

I was going to say something useful here, but I am so disgusted that I just can’t. Noping out so hard on this.

To be fair, Disney has been trying to pivot from “princess movies” to “adventure movies with princesses” in order to appeal to both/all genders of kids.

Fair enough. It’s definitely hard to see positive motives for anyone involved in this case.

Maybe I’m not getting what you mean, but it seems that this is a pretty weird way to view the whole situation. I mean, the letter stands on its own as an awful, awful thing. We don’t need to come up with weird, unfounded theories about why Rasmussen wrote it. You don’t have to be in love with someone, or desperate for…

Honestly, though, this white imperialist feminism is getting so old.

It’s definitely not the right word.

Yeah, my first thought on reading this was, “But is it bullying, though? Is it?”

Just popping in to offer a reminder that not all of our baes are men, and that wokeness is not exclusive to the men in our lives who surprise us by acting nice.

I love this chick.

Any fellow Bay Area jezzies want to go protest this with me?

That happened to me, too! A drug dealer who lived there before us used to keep massive quantities of drugs in the basement. A few months after we moved in, some guys broke in while we were away.

This is still just an ad. A really well-made, thoughtful ad, but an ad nevertheless.

It really is.