Which has the advantage of being expensive AND gaudy as fuck:

A million times yes to this. I enjoy fairly rich people being caught in assery as much as anyone, but these are Hallmark actresses and mortgage companies CEOs. They were buying this access to get their kids to the Big Little Lies version of success. The system is a sham.

I don’t remember if this article mentions it, but Harvey came up with the alternative ending for “Senseless.” They screwed people over in multiple ways. 

I mean . . . they could have spent half that money on getting her better contouring lessons.

And when they do get into (usually not top-ranked, state) college, they are pushed to take the most flexible major that doesn’t need a lot of math and dump a slew of confused, endebted Psychology majors out onto the market as they struggle to find a salaried job and tell them it’s their fault for not networking more.

To be fair, they did create a lot of jobs around college entrance payola.

I would like to request that Ms. Spheeris write an autobiography . . . growing up in traveling carnivals and becoming a successful filmaker AND facing down the Wicked Letch of the West AND to come out the other side a punk rock lady with zero fucks to give?!? More, yes, please.

Preach. If we shut down even more of the bases, large swaths of the south would descend meth-fueled thunderdome like the rest of the rural areas with an absolute poverty of resources 

As soon as I saw those words, I knew Sexy Getting Ready Song was going to be in my head the rest of the day. (Really, I’m grateful. It temporarily knocked out Don’t Be a Lawyer.)

I wish he’d talked a little more about the myth of the “skills gap” which employers whine about. I had a sit down with a big fintech company that wanted to recruit at my university. Their brilliant plan was to have a course taught about their proprietary data system (not used anywhere else) to the students that they…

Ah. Just looked it up (hope there’s no search audit this week.) It was in Illinois, so, straight up illegal. What a terrible person he is.

Depending on the state/country, the marriage part could have made it legal. It’s pretty much 18 for the age of consent for marriage in the US (casts side eye at Mississippi) but remember, this was more than 20 years ago, and some places were cool with parental permission to wed. Which: gross.

Ugh, yeah. And that lady in the glasses looks like she’s 15 in the picture.

God, I know. I just had a lady that I have never called, call and leave a voicemail (for chrissake) saying, “You called me twice and so you know, YOU CAN LOSE MY FUCKING NUMBER!!” Now I want to drive to her house and explain and avenge her inserting baseless negativity in my life. (She lives in northern Ontario I…

I explained that someone while I was at a wedding (in fairness, I was drunk.) He made me pull up the lyrics on my phone and legit turned pale. I think I might have fucked up his world view. 

*chanting* Spin. Off!! Spin. Off!! Spin. Off!! . . .

Roger Stone?

It’s like Coke in Atlanta, I’m at a university and you have no idea how many times I’ve had Vice Provosts ask, why aren’t more students working at Coca-cola? And then I have to explain to someone who makes 4x my salary a-fucking-gain that Coke has been hemmoraging jobs for the past couple years and is no place to…

I’m curious what sort of training doctors get in delivering bad news. I’ve been in a bad health situation with myself and family member several times, and the doctors’ delivery ranged from terrible to not good (I know it’s got to be difficult.) In my case, I had gotten very sick with undiagnosed Type One Diabetes and…

I’m really interested to see what happens with his presidency. I lived in Oaxaca in 2006 and he ran the first time. It was so sad to see how the hopeful left was just ground up by the political machinery. This feels like a real shift.