Damn, and the dog is even black. :(

This is some kind of metaphor for the GOP's attitude towards the poor, I'm 95% sure of it

I just cannot stand her. I mean, not that my Black ass means anything to her. But:

Academic-inaccuracy-based hives, I know thee well. Though I would be curious to hear what was most inaccurate...

Aaaah. I am a historian, 20th century beauty is one of my specialty areas, and this gives me HIVES. It's not even remotely accurate. It's more like a makeup artist's vague modern take on decades past. Pretty, but NO.

My Egyptian Mau, Pixel, was perfectly fine with a leash. Perhaps because they are the oldest domesticated breed? Or maybe it was just because he simply wanted to be wherever I was, whether it was at school, in a car, on a plane, etc. On a plane I'd just unzip his carrier and stick my bare foot in it, and he'd wrap his…

My car Felix has me well trained.

When they're all certain breeds, especially Siamese and Balinese.

Unpopular opinion: I don't think Kendall is a bad model and I think people who say she is have their judgment clouded by the fact that she's related to the Kardashians. Do I think she would've had all these opportunities if she were a "nobody"? Probably not. But she has the looks of a model, no doubt about that. It's…

It made me think of Johnny Got His Gun. Hooray romance!

So full from all the gratuities in mah belleh.

I've seen this phrase "kneels up" in the fanfic that I've actually read (I have not read 50 Shades), and I have to say, what even does that mean.

Don't be friendly to men; it only encourages them.

I have been really concerned about her. She isn't a healthy kitty, and it isn't like they can find others that look just like her to give her a rest.

I grew up not too far from here and my heart goes out to the families. While I grew up on the "good" side of the tracks, the entire central time zone in Indiana is looking more and more like this. People have lost even more jobs, they can't pay their bills, and the drug scene is unlike any other.

This part of the state (the part I grew up in, roughly) is not like the rest of the state. It's highly industrialized, and (actually like a few other parts like Indy) fraught with issues of race and class dynamics. It has a lot of problems. Jobs, namely, which keep leaving. My parents are moving out of the greater…

My husband works for the parent company. He tells me every day that there is a lot more to everything, but he can't even tell me. But this much is true: The CDC is running the show. They have been since they arrived to oversee Duncan's care. The staff was wearing whatever the CDC told them to.

As a referee for Physical Review Letters, and other physics journals, I can assure you that peer review is not blind. Referees see the entire paper, including the author list. Even if journals tried to withhold the authors' names, it would be fairly easy to figure out the authors' identities, because people tend to…

I'm kind of conflicted about this cover.

Because I'm the "professional chef" among my friends and family, I more often than not am suckered into dealing with the turkey or whatever other protein is selected for that particular Thanksgiving dinner that year. (Most eclectic? The whole salmon I stuffed with wild rice and blueberries from the farm at which we…