My dad sold real estate in SoCal. He helped people buy and sell houses all over the city, in rich areas, poor areas, wherever people lived or wanted to live, or could afford to look to live. Sure brokers and agents specialize in areas where they have particular expertise, lots of contacts or referrals, or think…

That’s often the case, but from the bit I’ve read it doesn’t sound like it’s the case here. Not that she wasn’t vulnerable when first recruited, but she got leapfrogged over other people in the cult leader’s “harem” and apparently she’s a co-founder of the sex slave cult-within-a-cult pyramid scheme and the one who…

Here’s a fact for you to get your head around: Helping people buy and sell homes is a job that exists in places where people live, including places you have idiotic notions about.

I can guarantee there were realtors there in the worst times too. People don’t only buy and sell expensive homes.

Did you happen to see what the jury member posted that had to be taken down? I didn’t see that.

It’s totally bullshit. The all-island #IBelieveHer rallies in solidarity with the victim are heartening though.

I just keep forgetting what he looks like.

That would then make women by definition of age, and “underage women” an oxymoron, so “underage girls” is a heck of a lot clearer.

Amusingly, I used to have this really cute top I bought in Paris that had random English words written in cursive on it.

Oh fuck you Tucker Carlson. Just like all white Americans, I’m a descendant of immigrants (who were also marginalized until they got accepted into the “white” club). I’m also happy to live in communities with plenty of immigrants, and am now an immigrant myself. Your bigotry has everything to do with racism and…

Proverbs 29

Exactly. A retweet is “I find this interesting at this moment”, not “I endorse this comment”.

Re: your second paragraph, recognition and acceptance that adaptation will never be the source material and that different media have different demands isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

Yup. It’s Doctor Who.

The first episode’s strength came from actually paying attention to the source material. After that, it was pretty clear that Moffat and Gatiss couldn’t tell the difference between Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Who, since they dropped using observation and deduction to solve a mystery for running around a lot and…

Agreed. No fault of the actors, really, as the did well enough with the material they had. But there were about 2 1/2 good episodes in the entire run. (One of them of course being the first.)

My new “favorite” not-personal story was in the papers here recently: staff of a local library branch noticed that someone at one of the branches had been writing sexually explicit comments on borrower accounts of library regulars.

Mid-century is a perfectly decent pedigree for a specific cocktail recipe. And yes. If you ask for an Irish Coffee in a pub in Ireland, this is what you will get (if you’re at a quiet pub that doesn’t mind making one for you). Coffee with whiskey in it would be like asking for a Bloody Mary and being given a glass of…

I hope the teachers at Oconomowoc respond by working as many lessons about privilege into the curriculum as possible, making sure to talk about it in the classroom since they’ve been instructed not to take it out of the classroom.

It’s “Apples to Apples” with a twisted sense of humor, that’s all.