(Full disclosure: I’m a white guy)

This post emphasizes why it is important to vote in local elections.

Virginia is notoriously gerrymandered. Virginia hasn’t elected a republican to statewide office for over 10 years but the state legislature, until last year, was majority republican. This disconnect is enabled by the…

Speaking as a decedent who traced at least 3 relatives who died fighting for the South.

As a descendant of Jefferson Davis (and I inherited that truly unfortunate forehead BTW) I want all of these goddamn confederate statues torn down. History will remember all those traitors and their details — Civil War fetishists will make sure of that — but the statues and monuments only serve to hurt and divide the…

As part of one of the over 20 reports and pleas for help Lauren McCluskey, a 21-year-old track athlete at the University of Utah, filed with the University’s police department, she submitted extortion messages and explicit pictures she had taken of herself, that were being used to blackmail her.

I loved JCrew back in the late 90s/early aughts when they were cranking out well made wardrobe staples. They were pricey but were made to last. As a recent college grad, they were my “investment pieces.” Then they started charging the same price for cheaply made see through tees, ill fitting sweaters, and statement…

Could’ve had a competent Stacey Abrams if that ignorant cracker asshole didn’t cheat.

hmm..

When you’re sick but not the kind of sick that makes your stomach upset, because restaurants can be too loud, because the restaurant is too crowded, because you’re already on sensory overload from your workday and just want the peace of your home with good food you didn’t have to make and clean up yourself for a…

Speaking of Law’s recent turns in The Young Pope and The New Pope,

This story has no good guy.

Benoit Blanc is the sort of detective Agatha Christie would have written if she’d been born in Louisiana instead of England. The bombastic ruminations on the case, usually spoken to himself as the other characters stand nonplussed, the actual police authorities’ strange deference to and cooperation with him as he…

I don’t have anything made with leather or canvas. I have a degree in art history, an eye for design and I’ve been collecting 50ies pieces for years. I know what I’m doing, but thank you for mansplaining something I’m an expert at

i bet paltrow has tips for where to keep that crystal without cluttering up your living space.

“Why don’t we just call it Love & Order?”

I think Bibbs had my favorite reaction

Famously disappointed cruiseship passengers.

Nope, he was totally normal, typical grandpa sort of guy. Of course hindsight being perfect, my husband realized that the first step he took with our son was something he’d done with my husband also: Showing him porn (my husband, to be fair, was 15-ish I think, and it was justified as a form of giving him “the talk”).

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It’s like a grammar exercise

In my house growing up, swearing was seen as a healthy way to vent feelings of frustration. Swearing at someone (unless clearly joking) was a no-no. Swearing about the state of things in general was (is) fair game. I can’t think of any more appropriate reason to be swearing right now.