nope, moved to assisted living from where she writes everyone hate mail! she's a peach

Yeah, it's always best to confirm the rules/expectations with the gift exchanges. That being said, I wasn't into DC at all but I still think what you made was pretty cool.

The following is not a funny story. I was a witness.

Seriously, WTF was all that? I would have walked and let the meal die once those kids took over the kitchen and no one stopped them.

Very good point. Since all his grifts/businesses are designed to cheat the lower middle class, he has to maintain a blend of aspirational and “realistic” so they’ll buy Ivanka’s ugly-ass clothes.

Mind Blown

Well, we all know “those people” just run out and buy lobsters and Cadeeelac cars with their ill-gotten handouts!

How can you mention the era of messy, unlikeable women on TV and not give a nod to the real housewives franchise - that’s the entire brand in a nutshell?  (I guess you were only discussing scripted television)

Obviously Hannah/Lena Dunham is unlikeable, but all of the others you mentioned are pretty charming.

I can’t speak to Hannah Horvath as I never watched Girls, but I never thought of any of the other characters you mentioned as ‘unlikeable’ at all. Messy? Hell yea, but I think that makes them more relatable. I think each of the shows these characters are on explore how they have good hearts but make mistakes,…

I was under the impression that most of the women characters you cited are more like “sometimes messy, refreshingly human, and thus very relatable and likeable”? I don’t really know anything about this woman’s art, but framing it as “ugh, just another terrible TV woman” is kind of weird.

You don’t have to do this.

All while sexually exploited by the record label and media. 

He is NOT the nice guy people think he is. He accompanied that famous teenage girlfriend to an appointment and whenever she was asked a question, he insisted on answering it. Got to the point where the guy working with Britney basically told him to shut up because he needed HER to answer the questions, not him.

I am talking about her friendship with a man who, just to start off with, misled us into a war costing 100,000+ lives and who oversaw a program of torture. Do I need to keep going, or would you like to continue with the misleading characterization of my comment?

It would be a lot less infuriating if people like Johannson and Degeneres didn’t try to twist their continued friendships with people who have done shitty things as some sort of brave or morally courageous stance. The simple fact of the matter is you like someone personally for whatever reason, and don’t want to…

And, BTW, I don’t think the first part of his sentence is actually inherently incorrect; I wouldn’t even necessarily call it a lie, because he might actually believe it. Everyone can more easily make a goal become real if there is some kind of visual representation of the complete project.

higher education is a lonely place as a minority. When I was working on my PhD, I was the only ethnic minority (I am a brown guy, incidentally) in my entire program.

Yeah. I think one of the reasons for the obsession with/becoming a billionaire is that’s the last group that’s actually going to have any inheritable assets in our society. My dad amassed what up until even twenty years ago would have been an enviable wealth pool, even a fortune. I fully expect every last penny to be…

Nope. As the young people grow old, they will turn into the same prying, judgmental asshats.