I love this. Smiling so hard.

$850 per pair? I’m just trying to figure out how to get my hands on a 3D printer and some EVA foam and make a mint selling knockoffs at urban farmers’ markets. There is truly a sucker born every minute.

I . . . don’t think that’s right. Perhaps the original argument was that “reverse racism” (i.e., racism by PoC against white people) doesn’t exist, which is definitely a valid argument for the reason you state—that PoC generally don’t have privilege and lack institutional power and are therefore simply “punching up.”…

I know jack shit about art, but Edvard Munch is definitely an unconscious influence.

You’d be a Quality Analysis *wrangler*.

This was 2002, actually. Yeah, maybe the prices have gone up, but I seem to remember that the real money came from getting people to throw away their cash in the slot machines and at the tables, and cheap drinks and meals were an incentive to keep them there.

Still waiting for someone to call him out for sexual assault.

Raisin toast and hot chocolate.

I’d never heard of this guy either (less because of age than because pop culture is mostly anathema to me), but I enjoyed your vivid account of the trainwreck.

Yeah. Last time I was in Las Vegas for an academic conference drinks were around $3 and prime rib was $8. She got ripped off.

It’s about time wearing face masks while sick became a common practice here. I didn’t see Line or Hello Kitty face masks last winter, but I did see lots of paisley, checked flannel, and even eyelet lace. Taipei definitely rocks the face masks.

Penn State has had a serious and unacknowledged rape culture for a long time, so yes, the gender of the victims definitely had something to do with its infamy. But I suspect the main reason the scandal blew up was that it embroiled Joe Paterno, who was God to most PSU alumni and a household name nationally. I was…

Having tried to make a go of being a UU for about 20 years for my husband’s sake, I can say that most UU congregations are so whitebread and sanctimonious and their services so boring and bland that they make Lutheranism seem exotic. And don’t get me started on all the hamhanded cultural appropriation in the name of…

My rule has always been to stand up for obviously pregnant women, people who look like they need a seat, parents with very small children, women who look old enough to be my mother, and men who look old enough to be my grandfather. In the last two cases it’s more of a matter of respect than whether or not they look…

Problem is, it’s also easy to mask anti-Semitic attitudes with anti-Israel sentiments, which is why I tend to give the BDS movement the side-eye.

I’m not sure how the two are equivalent. A lesbian couple in my Episcopal parish never enter our sanctuary without hats on—the principle is somewhat similar (women, but not men, should cover their hair in church out of modesty) and they do it out of devotion, which is probably a motivation for many women who wear…

I don’t feel comfortable commenting over on the Root. I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t be welcome there, even though I probably agree with them 99% of the time.

It always hurts a bit to think that as a white liberal woman (who strongly supports people of color who run for office and the issues they prioritize and wants to see them take leadership of the Democratic party), I’m not trustworthy, but when I saw all the white women who went for Sanders’ particular brand of racial…

I wouldn’t be surprised if all those things were already present. Ugh.

Paper napkins are never wrong.