Harumpf! ‘82 here, but I got off the Madonna Train circa Ray of Light. I remember being a child and being hella excited when Lucky Star or Vogue came on VH1. I used to have a vhs of the videos from The Immaculate Collection.

It’s not about diminishing her responsibility by claiming mental illness, it’s about understanding her motives and responsibility without burning her at the stake. All this fucking hatred directed at her doesn’t do anything. Show some restraint and wait for the story to develop before eviscerating the perpetrator.

The problem is not that she’s a white person leading an NAACP chapter. The problem is that she’s a white person who seemingly lied about being black and then headed an NAACP chapter.

“Hey, you’re black, right?”

It makes me wonder if there’s some internalized helicopter/ “special snowflake” parenting going on, too. “Someone said a thing I don’t like. I don’t know how to think outside of my tiny mindset and can’t solve my own problems! I don’t have to put up with that! I must eliminate the source of this discomfort, which is…

“symbolically incoherent” is a phrase that a lot of college students need to have in their head when they plan their activism, just saying.

What bums me out most about this is that the question of consent laws, “spheres of victimhood” and the worry about infantilization is SUCH an important and interesting one (and…

Once again proving that college students have WAY too much time on their hands.

Absinthe has special cups and it’s delicious!

Yerba mate is what tea would taste like if you made it with dirt.

My mother, in one of her weirder fads, got the culture starter thingy for kombucha when I was in high school. She kept it in a bucket in our laundry and she named the resulting snot slime monster 'Lionel'. Lionel lasted in his bucket for ages, my mother trying to get us to drink this fucking revolting tea ‘for our…

It’s disgusting is what it is. If I was dying of thirst in the desert and the only thing to drink was kombucha, I would drink my own urine instead. But if I was dying of thirst in the desert and the only things to drink were kombucha and yerba mate, and I couldn’t pee, I would drink the kombucha.

I’ll respectfully disagree; it’s in my bottom 15% of “things I’ve tried to eat.”

But - cookies...and cheese?!? Who does that!

Would still do.

Nope. She means well but it feels condescending.

There are ratings for twitter accounts?

Next, we’ll be hearing a strong take from Fiona Apple on saving more than you spend.

It’s this damn economy.

I would have loved to have seen a salad with 1 quartered garbanzo bean, and 6 whole beets in it.