Stop the presses. Jezebel has found their much-needed copy editor.
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Yes, yes, a thousand times yes.
Agreed — that's why it's helpful to have a name for it: the Bill Maher problem. (can you tell "the Bill Maher problem" is my fetch? I am desperate to make it happen.)
This is what I call the Bill Maher problem. I mean, when applied to other men who present the same split. Calling it the Bill Maher problem as applied to Bill Maher is a little on the nose, but it's named after him for a reason. I agree so heartily with so much of what he says on so many issues . . . and then…
"that aren't possums" is an extremely wise qualification. Grossest. A few years ago my parents went out to the garage on what seemed like a regular morning, and there was a possum nesting in a tarp in the corner. They spent most of the morning convincing it to un-nest, which they chose to do from a distance and…
No One Is Safe! is the funniest thing I've ever seen in a magazine.
Come on guys. Of course it hurts her credibility, for good reason. Not because a prostitute can't be raped, and not because prostitutes lie. But because in this instance she claimed there was nonconsensual sex, and if in fact she did sometimes have consensual sex with hotel guests, it does make the defense's story…
My favorite singing in the car song. American Heathcliff, brooding and comely.
I was cured of "like" forever when I saw the transcript of the first deposition I ever took. There's nothing like seeing it in black and white.
The movie Working Girl is one of my life's foundational texts. I mean, I have mentally referenced some aspect of that movie at least once daily for the last decade.
Specifically in the craigslist context, I've sold a number of pieces of furniture/household items on there over the last couple of years. Approximately 75% of the people who reply to an ad will flake out and not show up when they say they will.
If I remember my Gospel of Stacy and Clinton correctly, I believe that one of the central tenets is that just because you like something, that doesn't make it appropriate to wear a picture of that thing on a t-shirt. That one always made sense to me. That's what this reminds me of.
I have a very similar picture of my cats that always makes me miss my sister.
I think many people who are the type to be named most likely to succeed have probably gotten a lot of positive attention and rewards for just being a smart kid and having school-related things come pretty easy. And then they get out in the world and find out that what actually makes a person likely to succeed is…
@ThoughtExperimenter: If you can really spontaneously deadwood-ize your speech, I'm impressed! That is some dense business. I recently watched the entire series on dvd over the span of about 6 weeks, and it was one of the most intense linguistic experiences of my life. The only bits that have seriously entered my…
@Commentista: Yes, with Victoria Jackson circa 1985 playing a grown-up Cindy Lou Who in a SNL skit.
If you're on Groupon, there's a thing you can buy for about the next 10 days — $15 for a voucher to make a $25 kiva loan, and then when you do the loan you can choose to make it to an enterprising lady.
Ruffled cargo pants: fucking finally.
I think that when Jenny McCarthy was on Oprah talking about her book, she said that she had put Oprah on her Secret board as a thing that she wanted to happen for her and her book.