I thought the slutty ham sandwich was showing a torn up, spilling-out-with-mess vagina vs. the pristine, tidy vagina (vs. the quantity of meat). Was it supposed to be about the quantity of ham? I missed that..

If you use the corn starch powders, you won’t have the whole cancer risk thing. Just an idea.

I have a three-on-one-off routine. Three days, I wash and condition; the fourth day, I use a conditioning cleansing balm only. I wanted to do every other day but I run and sweat like a glittering pig, so couldn’t skip washes that frequently. I have yet to find a dry shampoo that doesn’t make my hair look like straw.…

Yes, but I do my best to get over it. The little death eater is a naturally nervous child, so Mr. Death and I always put on a brave face even if we feel a bit anxious ourselves.

“I am so old compared to how young I used to be, yet so young compared to how old I will one day become.”

Depending on the state’s stat rape law, yes. Children cannot consent. Statutory rape is typically strict liability. So even if it was “consensual”, it is not legal consent and therefore, is prosecuted and, if the person above the specified age of consent is convicted, punished as a crime.

Idea: Let’s set up a Hunger Games, wherein all of the really shitty states send two tributes (grown-ups, natch) to a fight-to-the-death battle in an arena designed by the people they’ve hurt. I would watch that!

When I entered my esteemed profession with a large company paying a substantial amount, my friend’s parents invited us all over for dinner as a celebration. It turned out to be an ambush - kind of a political intervention. Somewhere around the main course, they began to try to convince me and my husband that we SHOULD…

Come on. She’s at least as good a dancer as Katy Perry.

So I still remember the moment, my senior year in undergrad, when I read the following poem:

I’d add one clarification:

I don’t know that it’s a Gap thing, but it’s definitely a tall girl thing. It’s what we do. We don’t mean it to be mean... in fact, we typically only do it with our cooler small friends. It’s got nothing to do with race or using another person as a prop... it’s just really fatiguing carrying all of that body around…

Totally agreed.

Microwaving? HELL. NO. I can’t even. I just... NO.

I was with you RIGHT UNTIL THEN.

At a minimum, there would be a chain of custody issue for purposes of the criminal investigation. And on Apple’s side, this is a bad idea; what if something goes wrong and data is wiped? Would they have legal liability? And it still doesn’t solve the government-compelling-resources-to-hack-into-private-phones issue...…

I hear you. You have some doubts as to his innocence, and those doubts could be correct. But... “kind of think he may have done it” is not “beyond a reasonable doubt”, which is the standard for conviction and the basis for depriving a person of his/her liberty through incarceration. And if the reason he is sitting…

This - a thousand times this! I can think of literally no person, living or dead (and yes, I am including “traditional” models in that because it is JUST THAT BAD), who would look good in this swimsuit. It’s not functional. It’s not artistic. It’s just god-awful.

This is hands down one of the ugliest bathing suits I have ever seen in my entire life. It is unflattering in virtually every way: double straps at the hip, those weird criss-cross straps at the top, a bra that looks like it was designed by disgruntled 1950s Maidenform designer and made out of cheap foam and wires...…

But didn’t the author say that she wasn’t fearful, and rather, was still as a form of silent protest? I’m not taking a position either way on the ultimate question - just pointing out that she didn’t say she froze or was unable to move or speak... only that she elected not to.

“Extraordinary” doesn’t just mean “exceedingly good”, it can also mean, simply, “uncommon” or “unusual”. So in some ways, her statement about her mother makes sense. Melanie Griffith is “extraordinary” in that she is “unusually, not that wonderful of an actress”, which seems inconsistent with her having played some of…