I was blissfully unaware of the reality of airlines removing passengers with skin conditions, genetic or not. What the fuck? Also googled ichthyosis - it must be incredibly difficult dealing with the inherent medical issues associated with that condition, not to mention assholes who will stare, mock, and even remove…

Possibly but that’s about the worst precedent to set ever.

And in the end, she’ll blame the media for not having a sustainable career.  

Roseanne was always quite a few sandwiches short of a picnic, even when she claimed to be a liberal. She ran for president as the Peace and Freedom party candidate, and liked running her mouth and performing crazy stunts to raise awareness for political causes, rather than saying or doing anything reasonable. She and…

Donald Trump: 

Ha, Roseanne was one of the first famous people to speak out against Louis CK. We talk about how she’s changed since the 90s (and whether she really has) but that was around 2016 and continued until about last year. But now she thinks any victims in #MeToo are hos.

It is great that the Smith family is helping the people of Flint, but man I am so tired of seeing celebrities and billionaires having to step up and do the government’s job. 

Counterpoint: I miss it when my only job was to read books and think and write about them and nothing actually mattered and clients didn’t get mad at me ;)

I know! When I finally finished my PhD at 29 the relief was immense. I was like, wait....I get my weekends back? And then the postdoc job I got became crazy and I started having to work weekends again. I recently quit that job and got a nice calm writing job and so I have my weekends and evenings back to myself…

I had a baby! His name is Edward Douglas and he was born the day after Valentine’s Day. He’s pretty much the love of my life even though I’m breastfeeding like 8 hours a day and I’m stupid tired. I was really scared about post-partum depression because I am higher risk for it (my mom had it, I have had prior bouts of…

Hey Jezzies! I have an auntie win to share! (I’m the one raising my nephew).

My nephew was picked as student of the month in his class for how much he’s improved in reading! He’s in first grade. He came to me in August barely reading more than his name and simple things like “cat”*, so it’s been one of our big…

You don’t drink water with stuff like this. You’re literally putting something extremely acidic in your mouth. Water doesn’t help. You need a base to cancel out acid, that’s why people recommend milk. 

How do you define city?  Brooklyn and Harlem are not cities.

I think that may be the wrong question to ask, I think the better question to ask is whether the premium price at CarMax is worth the relatively low hassle experience versus another used car dealer. 

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...However, what may be surprising is that only one of Chevy’s models, the Crosstreck, also made CR’s list of most reliable cars.

They didn’t tell you in the commercial that the JD Powers award category was the award for Most reliable car/truck made by Chevy. How many times have you heard automotive journalists tell us that awards don’t mean a damn thing when there’s a category for everything and clearly awards can be bought.

I think it would be interesting to see people’s reactions if cars today had the reliability standards of thirty or forty years ago. Muffler replacement after 20k miles. Engine life of 100k. Tune-ups and carburetor calibration. We have come a long way, even for the least-reliable vehicles for sale today.

And here’s the thing about “Back Dat Azz Up:”

Jason yelling “Boring!” and interrupting Chidi just as he’s started his speech, felt like a call-back to that season 2 premiere ep when Tahani yelled “Boring!” as she interrupted Eleanor as she was about to give that speech (sober) at the shrimp-do ...