I had the same thought. I am never one to criticize a non-native speaker’s grasp of the English language, but it’s strange that someone who’s been married to someone who speaks exclusively English for a decade would struggle as much with it as Melania does...unless, as you said, they barely talk to each other. I mean,…

I immediately told the TV, “...but he probably will run around and desert you once he feels like trading you in for a younger, hotter country!” And then I felt sad because no one else was in the room and I was a weirdo making jokes to no one.

Yup. I have a friend who’s a former congressional intern. She 100% got that internship because her parents are friends of the senator she worked with. I mean, my friend is a lovely person and extremely smart, and I’m sure she legitimately deserved the position on merit alone...but so did a shitload of other people…

True story: I have a friend with albinism. At a party a couple of years ago, the two of us put our arms next to each other so that everyone could see that I was paler than her.

He spewed comparable amounts of incomprehensible word salad (and had a knack for ending up with particularly hilarious and memorable quotes - “my fellow astronauts,” “I didn’t live in this century,” “teachers are the only profession that teach our children,” “we have the best-educated American people in the world,”…

...wow.

I just want to note that those Trader Joe’s gummi penguins are delicious. Any self-respecting self-indulgent email exchange should clearly contain gummi penguins.

Some people are just true psychopaths who get off on the idea of deceiving and hurting others. They are literally incapable of feeling empathy, shame, or remorse. It doesn’t make sense to normal human beings because normal human beings don’t look at the world the way psychopaths do - in their heads, everyone but them…

Jesus, that mom is a real contender for Parent of the Year, isn’t she? What kind of stupid asshole deliberately teaches their kids to be snotty little shits to anyone different from them?

First, there are lots of actors with disabilities. The fact that they aren’t famous is kind of the point - people don’t become famous unless they get cast in major projects at some point.

I don’t see why it’s strange at all. Her point is not “Stop obsessing over the state of my uterus, because I can no longer have biological kids, anyway” (which we don’t even know to be true, since there have been cases of women older than 47 having biological kids), but rather “Stop obsessing over the state of my…

I don’t fundamentally disagree, but I think there’s a little room for nuance on the subject. There is some fairly persuasive evidence that there is a correlation between mental illness (bipolar and schizotypal disorder in particular, IIRC) and creativity - but (and this is important) not productivity. In other words,…

So, while this is one of those things that is Simply Not Done, I just can’t work up any outrage about it. And, to be clear, that’s not because I love Ginsburg, although I do - I’d be equally non-outraged if Clarence Thomas, whom I loathe, said that he didn’t want to imagine the country under the liberal equivalent of…

Yup. I am a fairly shaky person and I cry at the drop of a hat, but when there’s an immediate crisis, I go all cold and businesslike. Happened when I was in a serious car accident, happened when a family member had a medical crisis and nearly died, happened when a friend attempted suicide and I was the one who found…

Snopes is generally helpful on that front:

Jesus fucking Christ. Even as insane, racist police overreactions go, that’s phenomenally fucked-up.

I really dislike the whole “statutory rape isn’t, like, REALLY rape” argument, but even if we go with that, he was also apparently a domestic abuser, and I seriously doubt that was in any way consensual. So it does seem like he was a pretty shitty person...

He sounds like a pretty awesome guy. I’m so sorry for your loss.

I feel like pretty much any meme involving a picture of a Minion can be stuck in that “burn them all” pile.

I kind of love a friend of mine who recently announced her pregnancy on Facebook approximately like this: “Since I’m going on vacation with a bunch of people in a couple of days, it’s pretty much a given that somebody’s going to post a photo in which you can see my belly, and then anyone who hasn’t seen me in person…