Not just you. She’s got a seriously boring aesthetic. Enough with the big letters and shiplap.

This is a fantastically dumb argument. Cruelty aside (like the idea that anyone in any field that works full time and can’t feed themselves and have a place to live is somehow based on what one “deserves”), places like McDonald’s need staff that’s available at 10:00 on Tuesday. I worked at a McDonald’s in both high…

Yep - except the correct entity to be angry at there is Wal-Mart, and the tax system that enable Wal-Mart to pay people poverty wages while simultaneously encouraging them to get on government assistance, and the Party (*cough*) that supports that tax policy while simultaneously denying them government assitance and…

I literally stopped at “menstrating waterheads”, BECAUSE WHAT COULD BE BETTER THAN THAT?

Interested if anyone has any info about Team National. I don’t even really get the concept, but several people I know are all about it. It sounds shady af to me. Has anyone ever used it and how, practically, in your everyday life: 1) does it work, and 2) do you make money? I’m not interested in joining, I’m just…

That may be a point you are making, but was not the point I was making. And again, why are you bothered to be annoyed by another person’s relationships, even if they are followed by the paparazzi? Don’t buy her music. Don’t consume her publicity. But let’s also bury the “lady be obsessed with dudes and writes all her…

I have that one on my shelf of “to read” books (along with Mornings on Horseback and The Wright Brothers). I read The Path Between the Seas last year, and I’ve also read Truman, John Adams, and Americans in Paris. I really like McCullough.

Again, not relevant to the point. The critique I always see about Swift is “oh my God, another song about whatever dude she’s dating now”. That’s literally Adele’s entire ouevre, except it’s all about the same ex. 

No, but other than Jake Gyllenhall, I don’t actually know who any of the other people are. And the only time I see anything about Swift’s relationships is when I read Dirt Bag. The News Hour doesn’t cover who Swift dates. But again, none of that is my point. Swift dates guys and writes songs about it. So what? Adele…

I literally cannot even name most of the people Swift has dated, except John Mayer, so I’m not really sure what “forced those relationships in our face” is supposed to mean. And neither of those two “reasons” is responsive to the question. No one makes you consume gossip about Swift’s love life.

Can someone tell me why everyone dumps all over Swift for writing songs about ex-boyfriends while simultaneously stanning over Adele, who’s written three albums allegedly all about the same former relationship?

He had two step-children that he adored as his own. He was devastated when one of them died. (*currently reading David McCullough’s 1776 and just read this part two days ago*)

I get that. I do like to post pics on vacation, tho. :-)

That’s great. And also not explained by your first reply. Travel is a status symbol, too. Just because you believe your money is better spent traveling doesn’t mean that it’s an objectively better use than someone that wants a BMW and can really afford it. I’m only adding this because I, too, really enjoy traveling as…

Eh - the point isn’t what you spend money on - trips to Israel and Chicago can just as easily be purchased on credit as a BMW. The question is do you pay for those things, or do you accumulate debt to have those things. I would rather spend money on travel, too. But it’s my money, not debt.

“asinine portmanteau” had me bark-laugh at my desk

THANK YOU. I had literally the same conversation last night with my husband.

I’m literally having this conversation on FB right now. So, I’m in Louisiana, and there are ELEVEN third party candidates on my ballot. I’m genuinely curious. Would you say the same if my vote were for LaRiva, or Hoefling, or Jacob, or White? Suggesting a vote for Johnson is some victory for “third parties” in the…

Margaret Truman (Harry Truman’s daughter) wrote a book about First Ladies that is quite good, even though it’s clear that her perspective is that the best role of First Lady is to provide solace to the President because of his hard job. Ironically, the last First Lady profiled (briefly) is Hillary Clinton.

When I was in my 20s, I loved Rory. Now in my mid-30s, I love Lorelai.