To me it’s is less in how inappropriate it is, and more the fact that she’s resigning while many, many men have held onto positions of power for doing far worse. I applaud her for doing the honorable thing, but also feel sad over the fact that Roy Moore got to stay on the ballot while being a pedophile. She also…

An AZ gender reveal party cost $8,000,000 and burned 47,000 acres.

Ugggh. So her soon to be ex-husband choreographs a revenge porn campaign against her, and she resigns her position. Ugh. 

Instagram amplified attention seeking behavior. But narcissism was rooted in popular culture before social media came along. The over the top sweet sixteens on MTV, CRIBs etc were the ancestors of capitalist displays of wealth. Instagram invites everyone to get in on the excess.

Gawd, so many ways to avoid this. I have no issue with them taking the other kids, but they could have worked it out before with the tech. Let mom go in and get setup, tell the tech what’s up, and then bring the kids in. Then the tech could play the “I just can’t see what it is” game for the benefit of the kids, and…

My sister and brother-in-law took their 3-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son with them to the ultrasound, because both parents wanted to be there and it was easier than arranging childcare. The doctor asked “Do you want to know what it is?” and the parents said “NO!” while the siblings yelled “Yes!”

“I am not quite moved by a still of Pelosi simply doing her job. I am also not moved by this photo of Jackie Robinson simply doing his job, I mean, he’s supposed to be a baseball player, isn’t that what he’s paid for?”

My connection with this photo isn’t what’s in it specifically, but that Trump attacked her with it and she made it her twitter background. That’s a smooth move to me.

I feel like maybe he should avail himself of readily accessible knowledge pertinent to the case over which he’s presiding, and if he feels unable to do that, perhaps he should retire. Technology is increasingly involved in our interactions with each other, and consequently, our litigations. And Twitter is hardly new.…

It sounds like the judge should try being a woman for a week. He might figure it out. I’m 58 years old. For the most part I look 58 years old. I’m physically disabled. Yesterday I was at Costco and got a hotdog when I was done shopping. I sat at the first table to eat, and parked my cart at the end of the table. A guy…

If it's 2, why force AOC to testify? He can appoint an expert to explain it to him, can't he?

The more I hear about the minutia of her life as a congresswoman, the more I fucking want to hug her and give her wine.

What you’re saying is exactly the entire point of my comment; that we SHOULD be reacting like that to things like cigarettes. Because we have under-reacted in the past (and now), the reasonable reactions seem overboard to us instead of appropriate.  

I know, right?  When E. coli in spinach makes a lot of people sick, it’s usual to pull it from the shelves for a while and recall whole batches.  And you don’t see a bunch of bloggers going, “Stop the spinach panic! I have been eating spinach for six years and I’m fine.”

Honestly, the reaction to the Vape “panic” is a legitimate and reasonable reaction - something is shown to be correlated to making a bunch of people sick, and places decide to stop selling it until more information is known. That is a very sane reaction.

Yeah, for comparison’s sake, here are the youth smoking numbers up until Juul became popular and sent it back upward again. If you went to high school in the ‘90s or ‘00s, you probably have an unrealistic conception of how many high schoolers smoke cigarettes these days. It had fallen off a ton.

Not only did Lizzo post it but a lot of the outlets that have reported on this have ALSO posted the woman’s picture and name. Including the TMZ article this piece links to. Cos the media are irresponsible. It’s one thing for one woman who doesn’t understand the impact of her newly raised profile to post something -…

Lizzo should’ve never tweeted the photo of the person involved, complaining about the service is one thing, but that was doxing, not great ma’am.

Not to mention that if I had my partner come into my office, during work hours, while I was at work, and have sex with me, I’d be fired —- for having consensual sex at work. But seriously, like if they did anything else, asked this woman for money while she was handcuffed, it would be a crime. It’s so painstakingly…

I will never, ever, understand how “Yes we were on the job, yes we arrested her for an offense, but hey she said she wanted to have sex so we went for it” is an actual defense. Or legal. Good christ, if that was even the reality of the case, they should be fucking ashamed of themselves.