You can basically count morganatic marriages between British royals and commoners on one hand, maybe two hands. Sure we’re mostly cool with it now, but in historic terms it’s exceedingly rare.

As far as de-escalation goes, this wasn’t even a hard one. This wasn’t a person with a weapon or something. This was an exhausted mom who needed some empathy (and a seat, WTF NY?). As someone who de-escalated a scissors brandishing kid today, weak game NYPD.

I feel that, despite her life experience, McCaskill has NOT mastered the art of working with assholes. You have to OUTasshole them.

I work with all women and tea snobbery is very much a thing. 

Wild/city pigeons are apparently too bony/bad tasting for consumption. I believe that since that same couple used to trap and eat squirrels from their suburban yard, so they wouldn’t have been averse to some free pigeon. 

My friend’s fancy French parents occasionally ate pigeon and I asked that very question! Apparently most people eat pigeons that are specifically bred for the table. 

She got the crazy eyes. 

Thank you, I was trying to organize my thoughts on this topic and you did it for me. 

I’m so sorry for your experience. 

I agree, however I can’t help thinking there’s a sizeable segment of society that still considers a domestic violence shooting as less serious than other types of mass violence. 

I feel like domestic violence is not an adequate way to describe this. 

It’s true, I’ve travelled much of Canada, the US and Europe and some of Africa and Asia, mostly in urban centres. I suspect city people are most comfortable in other cities. 

You’ll get no disagreement here that Bernier is the worst. 

I don’t live in Ontario, and actually agree with you about the Ontario PC, despite your negative assumptions and tones. Any right leaning political movement is unnerving in my opinion. 

I live in Quebec, but my a-holes everywhere was in reference to a-holes in my country. Or perhaps right here?

I live across the border from NY and have family that have a country home there. We visited this summer and I was shocked to see motherfreaking MAGA hats at the local gas station. It was the first time I’d actually seen them IRL. I’ve always considered NY our blue state neighbours, I was more than a little shaken.…

These parents should really be shunned by polite society, but they probably live surrounded by shitheads just like them. 

Her parents also left her with a Discover bill full of charges for a recent family vacation

How was Beto a victim of his own fame, exactly? He was never expected to beat Cruz, but ended up coming painfully close and gaining international attention.

Obviously I don’t really care, because Melania sucks, but I wonder if she and her staff are being treated with the same respect as previous FLOTUS’. It seems they’re not, which is fine because all of these people deserve to be miserable.