i think there was an oral history (maybe?) of creating Mad Men and apparently Community got picked up before Mad Men did, so Alison Brie had already committed to being a lead on another show, and Weiner didn’t want a different actor playing Trudy so they really had to limit the role to a lot less than he had initially…

he’s never been the type to take custody of kids to fuck over their mother - ivana has said a couple of times he wanted absolutely nothing to do with the actual raising of their children and i think tiffany lived primarily, if not exclusively, with marla

as someone who is not a lawyer - it sounds like the contingency clause was intended to give the dancers an out if/when Katy’s tour was announced so they wouldn’t be sued for breach by Taylor’s people, since their contracts would probably be for the entire length of the tour (or a whole leg of the tour). without that…

probably? but i think you’re allowed to bring outside food on a plane, so unless the ones you have smell really really strong for some reason you should be fine

i flew back to JFK from Colorado last winter and i was fine with sour watermelon gummies. they show up as candy on the x-ray.

i think Narcos on Netflix is an American show - but probably 85% subtitled and set entirely in Colombia

i do think, though, that the “populist” (see: deplorable) Trump supporters don’t extend their love for Trump to Pence and the rest of the fucksticks atop the GOP shitpile. if he goes down, it’ll be harder for Paul Ryan and the GOP to ram through legislation that blatantly fucks over millions of people when the media…

it’s also surprisingly difficult to convey exactly what someone did to provoke “bad vibes” feelings after the fact - it can come across as really petty or small or insignificant, like “well the only thing he really did was ask me to stop texting” when there were a bunch of smaller cues/actions/tones/whatever that led…

sorry for butting in - i’m pretty sure that applies to adults who are looking to adopt a kid (who will therefore need to be covered under their insurance) in the same-ish way that a pregnant woman has a pre-existing condition that will lead to a child/new person on the plan (in addition to the actual healthcare aspect…

semi-unrelated - my dad played rugby for like 20 years and he went back for one last “old guys” match and took an elbow to the top of his head. no major damage, just a lot of blood (because head wounds bleed a loooooooot, as you well know)

ahhh my personal theory is that donald and the two chucklefucks live by super ingrained gender roles and therefore obviously tweedle-dee and tweedle-rapist-face will run the business while ivanka can have her little projects on the side, but it is expected by everyone that she will ultimately be the one responsible…

thank you for your response to my comment about gerrymandering by linking me to an opinion piece talking about one of the only states that has logically drawn district lines and does not, in fact, gerrymander

Iowa has nonpartisan districting committees that draw the lines based on creating roughly even blocks of population

along these lines, right now there is massive incentive for pretty much anyone who is not straight or white to get the fuck out of a large part of the country in favor of living in liberal, generally coastal, population centers because those states and cities are not actively trying to dehumanize them via stupid…

oh yeah good Catholic schools are awesome - they are a legit great option for parents who want to send their kids to real schools with smaller class sizes, etc. or just want a different environment than local public schools, since they’re usually more strictly disciplined (most have uniform/dress code policies, for…

i’m running into a brick wall when i try to explain to my Catholic-educated relatives why Betsy DeVos’ plans for “school choice” are actually really really bad - because their frame of reference for “religious education” provided much more of the second part, education, and not a lot of the first part, religion.

okay as SOON as you finish season one you MUST plunder the depths of the internet to find the absolutely incredible Bravo behind-the-scenes making-of...thing that they did for that season of Vanderpump Rules

also - their predictions were technically correct, in that their national models had her ahead by like 3-4 points and she ended up winning nationally by 2-3 points.

what? i’ve flown JetBlue for over a decade and they JUST (like, in the past 18-24 months) started charging for the first checked bag - it used to be one free, then charged for any additional checked luggage.

“the only moral abortion is my abortion”