The English Crown Jewels are 140 objects, some not even jewelry. (The oldest is a spoon. None of the jewelry worn in the pics above are coronation crowns, for example. No scepter, et al. These appear to be personal pieces.

What’s that, Melania? Not wearing any jewelry, you say....gosh, I wonder why. Could it be that I-wish-I-was-royalty spouse #1 has no concept of buying his wife enough of an asset to live on/and can’t afford to do it anyway?

1950's “Mamie Eisenhower” pink.

My parents house- modern, built in 1962- had the “copper” kitchen appliances. The counters were white Formica with gold...sprinkles, I guess. One of the bathrooms had a gold tub and sinks with black Formica. The master bath was a half bath, and that pinkish beige (Mamie Eisenhower pink), the downstairs powder room was…

The macaroni side with teriyaki or huli huli chicken is a tradition in Hawaii. I have seen it with teriyaki in Seattle. The other 50% have rice and iceberg lettuce with a poppy seed white dressing, but that might be Korean teriyaki.

Honor Blackman

In 1964, Democrat LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act into law, and famously said it would lose the South for the Democrats for a generation. That wasn’t really true, because for every Southern Democrat who decided they were now Republican, black Southern Democrats stepped up.

I don’t know that a statement by Obama on white terrorist groups would have helped.

I like the old term better...call them “white supremacists”, not “white nationalists”. Killing Muslims at a mosque, or killing Jews at a Jewish center/synagogue -the attack on those who are Othered by white “Nationalist” groups-  isn’t a peaceful wish that every country was a white country.

The phrase is “Jewed down”, and it’s a complex phrase. The unique nature of anti Semitic slurs are that Jews are simultaneously inferior to others, and yet somehow able to magically do better in a financial deal.

I had a set of Pyrex stove top pans in 1980ish. One pan exploded at a fairly low heat. I threw away the rest of the set, but kept the pink and turquoise 1940's Pyrex bakeware I had collected.

The left does have some problems with anti semitism, anti Muslim sentiments, and sexism. I have an aunt and uncle who did the March on Washington with MLK as college students- and yet I have heard him say that any woman who went to Kobe Bryant’s hotel “knew what she was in for”, so he just dismissed any possibility of…

I am so sorry. Hugs.

This calls for a walk off contest!

Sad, and thanks for the input. This was very interesting to read. Performative toxic masculinity really does poison social relationships.

Thank you for your input. If you look at the article I referenced it openly states the need for reform in how Congress handles sexual harassment.

About 9oish% of the avocados at the market are Hass avocados. (Those are the familiar more or less pear shaped ones.) Climate change - and fungal susceptibility of Hass avocados might change that, and a new cultivar might take over the market like Hass did in the 1980's. I don’t know that that cultivar will be…

No one would have written this if Gillibrand was a man. I searched -in vain- for an article saying that a male politician had not dealt with one subordinate in their office harassing another subordinate. And yet, we know it happens.

Olympic athletes peak very, very young in most cases. Much of their focus and attention is on that goal, and other issues get pushed to the side in order to get that medal. The letdown after- even if you gold medal, viewing what you accomplished as a teenager or early 20's as the highpoint of your life, with…

It is hard to be amazed that men who are assholes are not always assholes in front of everyone. I both feel for and believe the woman who was harassed, and believe that Malik did not harass in front of Gillibrand. When will we ever acknowledge that sexual harassment is the fault of the person doing the harassing,…