I’ve said this before, but my disdain for Franzen became burning hatred when he wrote that NEw Yorker article about how Edith Wharton would have been a better writer if more men had wanted to fuck her. I still can’t believe more people didn’t call him out for that. Edith Wharton is 1000x the writer he will ever be.…

Which is why I hate when people use “allergy” as the reason they don’t want something in their food. Allergy implies a specific set of reactions to having that thing, in any form whatsoever. Diverticulitis means they can have that thing in some forms but not others. If you say you have an allergy to peppercorns but…

God - at a wedding last year, my friend who was like, TWO WEEKS divorced got shoved in there and ended up catching the bouquet. She sat and cried outside afterward. I mean, jeez, a newly divorced 35-year-old has to stand in a crowd of the teenaged cousins? Fuck that.

The bouquet toss is enough to make me skip a wedding. It seriously is one of the most humiliating rituals of modern life. It’s especially awesome when you as a grown woman try to sit it out, but are informed that you no fun and spoiling the bride’s day, if you don’t go out there with the pre-teen crowd while everyone…

I think “just a trim” would suffice.

You are supposed to say: “Can you cut my hair exactly like it is but shorter. Please”. Wasn't that easy?

Geez! Ok, I know that you cannot control your teenage son. He is a complete nut job and should be locked away. I won't fault you for that. But SEND HIS ASS TO JAIL, or whatever punishment any other person would have gotten for this crime. Show some integrity, show that when you say you are tough on crime, you are…

Huckabee is against gay boy scouts but is cool with boy scouts who torture and kill animals. If I had a kid, I would rather he see the counselors sneaking off to have gay sex, instead of seeing them murdering animals.

I’d rather people just judged me on my personality and my character and my integrity.

Many people don’t know that Japan basically appropriated most of Chinese culture and made it their own, I say this not in a hateful way, but rather an impressed way. I mean, ramen is the shit but it also came from China originally.

Really? That just seems tasteless and out of place to me.

The mental gymnastics you’re doing here are kind of astounding. This girls were rude. And racist. Yet somehow, you’re judging everyone else more for not being overwhelmingly nice to them (even though there’s no evidence anyone was actually rude back), than you are judging them for being rude and racist.

Sigh. Do you not see that what they were doing was racist? There is a HUGE difference between saying “I’ve never had this kind of food before, can you tell me about it?” and saying “You have Lo Mein, right?” and then asking for it over and over again. It sounds like the servers were way nicer to them than they should…

I love how people can definitively pass judgment without being anywhere near the damn vicinity.

I remember being that college girl with very limited experience in ordering out of my comfort zone. The midwestern in me would probably want to start a conversation with that table about all of the different Asian cuisines and learning what to order.

Nothing says “stepping out of your comfort zone” more than repeatedly asking why you can’t order lo mein.

Yeah I agree that she was annoying. Frankly though, I don’t trust a cop that can’t control their impulses over a little annoying to be good cops. If you assault people and destroy their property when you’re annoyed, what if you’re dealing with a mentally ill person or any situation that requires you to not punch…

Not sure, here’s a link to the wiki page.http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-O_%2… If not there are more & more police brutality apps coming out every week that im sure will. Besides filming in public is fine I thought. No expectation of privacy. Also, interestingly enough, the five-o app was started by a group of…

I feel like no matter where you’re from, if you’re attending college you probably ought to know that Tokyo is not in China.