Oh man, American Girl got me good. My newly minted right year old just inherited my original 80's Samantha with a few outfits (goddamn the little school accessories are so great!) and steamer storage trunk. We also read all of the books and I admit that I’m still pining away for the birthday set and summer vacation…

Are you saying you don’t remember the high-octane moment in political diplomacy when Felicity put the spoon on her cup and said THANK YOU, I SHALL TAKE NO TEA when the Loyalist scum tried to serve it to her? I’ve been thinking about that moment a lot lately as I strategize the eventual return to hanging out with…

This. 1000% this. You gave the best advice you knew how to give to a person who shouldn’t have been asking you for advice in the first place. 

You were not responsible for your parent’s marriage. You were not responsible for your dad’s affair. You were not appointed, nor expected to be, your parent’s marriage counselor. You are their CHILD, not an unbiased professional. You are not responsible for your father failing to reach to your mother because that was…

I say this as someone who battles lifelong major depression and has attempted suicide. This is not your fault. It’s easy to fall into that thinking in your grief. People always want an explanation of why it happened. The why exists in the mind of the suicidal person. You have no way of knowing that, had your father…

I’d stream it so his neighbor could watch.

Hit him with a shovel, so he doesn't suffer.

I would help him, then bill him a price that would be a fixed percentage of the estimated income for the rest of his life as the free market would need to decide. 

I would try to watch in a way that didn’t draw any attention to the situation. *I* don’t think it’s good for people to have chicken bones in their throats, but there are people on the other side who believe it *is* good and the facts will surely bear that out.

It’s not the least bit wrong to wish COVID-19 takes a bite out of this White House the way it has done to the rest of the country. Conservatives don’t understand anyone else’s suffering but their own. This isn’t wrong.

Don’t forget Mario Batali, Guy Fiere, Wolfgang puck, or Robert Irvine. And why the Asian ones and not Paula Dean or Rachel Ray or Martha?

Americans have never, ever been good at nuance. So, needless to say, I’m not surprised that everyone has reduced Marie to a lady who is just telling you to throw away all your shit.

No one should say anything about Chrissy Teigen publicly without the expectation that she will respond. She always responds, any time anyone says anything about her, anywhere. 

I usually find Chrissy Tiegen fairly annoying and even in this her “poor me” act was a bit much. But, man, Alison Roman came off so poorly especially in her responses on Twitter.

He has no idea how anything works.

Counterpoint: Yes, you do. ;)

I also don’t know why he’s quoting incel gospel like the 20% percent garbage.

Ah yes. As ever, it’s the fault of women that men treat women like trash.

I remember hate reading this book after it came out. It is so incredibly bad. It is based on the lie that in straight relationships, women don’t compromise. That is complete bullshit, from everything I’ve experienced and observed the opposite is true.