Best kind of soothing there is

Hell. Go put on a white dress and elbow gloves tonite, go to your local bar and live it up like you’re fucking Jackie O.

This is making me very uncomfortable, partially because this sounds like a deadly boring book, but mostly because I wore a white dress....and white elbow length gloves to my prom. Earnestly. In 1998.

There is a long & rich tradition of being prescribed drugs at other dosages or for other uses. For example, most drugs aren’t ever tested on children, but there are millions of kids who have had ear infections cleared up, so doctor’s go with their (and others’) experience. But OF COURSE, this is the one drug they…

Kagan made that point during the Hellerstedt argument. Keller couldn’t name any other medication that was regulated by the state to the point where the patient had to take it in a clinic.

Because then you would be a hoarder! I bet most of your fondest magazine memories are online and dust free!

I think there was (pre ACA) some sort of additional abortion insurance though. I mean an additional premium you could opt to pay in case you thought your birth control might fail (sometimes other meds can apparently cause this) you didn’t take it absolutely as directed, or you got raped and became pregnant. Otherwise…

I have a better idea. Just make birth control free for everyone, all the time. You get birth control! And you get birth control! And you get birth control! We could solve so many problems at once.

They don't get it. They get the privilege of some of the best health coverage in the country due to their positions on top of their personal wealth. It's the same crap as Congress. They fundamentally don't understand how their experience with insurance in no way mirrors what the rest of us go through.

When I graduated from high school in 1976 the local furniture store gave away miniature Lane “hope chests” to girls who were graduating. Even though the idea of squirreling away household goods for an unspecified domestic future struck me as an oddly antiquated notion I marched down there and claimed my tiny 10" x 6"…

It’s weird that so much of the ‘70s aesthetic was peasanty-boho but everything was made out of plastic anyway. And there’s that hideous disconnect when you touch them thinking that they should be soft cotton.

How many of those chests are upcycled on Etsy now, milk-painted and edge-rubbed within an inch of their lives?

My mother claimed that late ‘70s Farrah Flip hair and all the big hair of the ‘80s happened because from about 1968-1978 all a (white) lady had to do was grow her hair out long, part it in the middle and keep the ends trimmed. She claimed hairdressers were going out of business, so they invented all that fussy hair.…

Think of a super tight long sleeve tee under a formal gown and then you have your picture of “modesty” that is not only the purview of Duggars, some of my Orthodox Jewish cousins were similarly attired at a cousin’s wedding. I’m just glad they cranked the AC because it was May and in Florida and I had to cover my…

Instead of proposing to his chosen woman, I really really want to see on a The Bachelor finale them haul out a huge ass sweetheart chest for him to give to her. And she weeps with joy because “It’s the gift that says he wants to spend the rest of his life with you.”

I am more shocked to hear that they still had dance cards in the 90s than someone is in an open marriage. Although when I lived in the South, I was astonished by how old fashioned things were.

It’s that dance card. It taught them it was polite to share.

It’s no surprise that these people turned into swingers when they were in their 30s in the ’70s.

Speaking of getting engaged early, my mom and most of her friends were engaged by the age of 16 in 1958. Small town, old traditions, no education etc. But mom got a job, unlike most of her friends, and decided that she didn’t want to get married after all so broke it off. Her ex fiance didn’t want the ring back so she…

It strikes me that teens in the 50's actually looked like they were 50.