Ellie you just became my fave! I love listening to A Capella. The Sing Off was my favorite reality show when it was on and I adore PTX.

I just kinda figured her singing voice finally assumed a material form and expelled itself.

Sometimes I learn that things I mistakenly thought were quite cool are actually things I should have been embarrassed by all along. See: musicals, debate team, a capella, piano bars. And then I remember that everyone is wrong and those things are quite cool and that I’m glad I’m a grownup now so I get to decide that.

I was in Italy in 1998/99 when a judge there ruled that a woman wearing jeans could not be raped. Because women wear jeans so tight, there’s no way they could be removed without her help. I still can’t believe it.

I’m a vegetarian, and I think this whole kerfuffle is cuckoo for cocopuffs. They own/run vegan restaurants. In their private life they raise cattle for their own consumption. They’re not lying about it. And they’re not secretly adding beef and chicken to their dishes at the restaurant. It seems unrealistic (and more…

Just last night I was using a (women’s) restroom. I did not realize I would be sharing it with a group of loud, drunk men who were using it because “if we were transsexuals we could do it.” I’m not frequently scared but that did it. Any problems in public restrooms are not coming from trans people, they’re coming from…

In related news, the majority of Americans, including Patti Davis and the late Nancy Reagan, continue to ask that the so-called “Party of Reagan” permit research into new stem cell lines to develop better prevention and treatment methods for Alzheimers.

Because we can’t have nice things.

I'm wondering the same thing. I understand if at first, you might be skeptical of his sincerity, but he has been very consistent and has shown that he's trying to educate himself and use his privilege to raise awareness so ... fuck this guy? I don't get it.

I would understand the uproar if people suddenly found out that the food they were eating was not vegan- that would make people understandably very upset.

This is for some reason not reported in international outlets at all but last week three men in Denmark got acquitted of gang raping a woman who was unconscious because of a combination of alcohol and insulin shock (she is diabetic). Reason for the acquittal? She didn’t actively resist this they couldn’t have known…

Your analogy falls apart because the Engelharts aren’t farming cows on a large scale or selling the meat for profit, but rather using the meat entirely for their own consumption. It’s more like someone owning a no-kill shelter and buying a hypoallergenic purebreed.

The idea of bodily autonomy for women is therefore such a “new concept” that even several waves of laws passed over the last century still have major gaps like this, since clueless lawmakers were still focused on the stranger assaulting someone in the dark kind of rape or the idea of vaginal or anal rape as the only…

But, you know, they’re really concerned that a guy might put on a dress to go into the ladies’ room and assault someone. Whereupon they’ll do nothing about it anyway, probably, but hey.

I just, really really want to smack him in the face with a shovel. Is that so much to ask?

The party of small government is at it again.

Huh. I hadn’t thought about whether these bathroom bills were also stealth attempts to harass gays, lesbians, and bisexuals before. This must be part of that new educational series, The More You Didn’t Want To Know.

We’ve lost our collective minds

But did you read the article? She didn’t buy a gun. She went to a range and rented one to shoot at targets for an hour (or however long).