I doubt most (any?) of them have the intellectual fortitude to read a WHOLE BOOK or sit through the show, if we’re being honest.  I’m sure they thought that they were dressing up as old-timey (yet sexy) nuns or something.

I always phrased it a slightly different way. I had an uncle who converted from Methodism to some fundie quasi-cult because the Methodists weren’t hateful enough.  I guess he didn’t like their new “Open Hearts. Open Minds. Open Doors.” policy/tag line.

That struck me as odd, too, but I looked up her author blurb, and it lists her as a “Jordanian-American journalist,” so it isn’t quite as random as it seems on first glance.

I can’t be the only one reading this as shade from Ginsburg, right?

I grew up in western PA in the 70s and 80s and heard the term all the time, so I don’t think it was super-regional.

I hope this doesn’t affect the rollout of the Dodge Challenger Red-Eyed Demon Hellspawn Scatpack Narrowbody Super-Deluxe Extra-Special edition.

Oh please let this be a parody. I remember really liking Madeleine’s writing and humor. This...this is bad. These jokes are so tired. Is there a chapter about how women like shopping, but dudes totally like beer? An essay about how bad airline food is?

“Press, press, press, press, press/Cardi don’t need more press,” she shouts.

If they had an HOA, the bylaws would probably require a Confederate flag in front of each house.

When I was buying fairly modest amounts of medical marijuana to help with chronic pain, I spent about $200/month.  $2500 a year would have been easy with just a couple of “treats” added in to my usual order.

Did anyone else find the details of this question kinda off? The budget is for $15K for a “vintage” SUV as a second car in NYC. Given the insurance rates in NYC and the fact that NY State has annual inspections with emissions testing, I can’t imagine touching a “vintage” SUV with a ten-foot-pole unless I had stupid…

Yeah, former New Yorker chiming in here. It was nothing special. When I lived in NYC in the late 90s and early 00s, my friends and I hung out in that area all the time, and we never bothered to go there because pretty much every single place in Union Square was better.

Random William H. Macy anecdote: Nina Hartley, actual porn actress who played Macy’s character’s wife in “Boogie Nights,” said he was the only person who didn’t treat her like a leper on set. Marky Mark and everybody else wanted nothing to do with her, but she said Macy just spoke to her like a normal human being.  I…

Given that she wasn’t hunkered down over her books, but rather on some trustee’s yacht when the story broke, I’m guessing she has somewhere in the neighborhood of 0 transferable credits, unless Aunt Becky bribed every damn professor she had.

My understanding is that Finland has some pretty rigorous driver’s ed, includig training on a skid pad. Hence the old racing team joke, “If you want to win, employ a Fin.”

Wait, there’s a mosh pit at Ariana Grande concerts?  Damn Millenials.

On the other hand, having Gwen Stefani as a judge on The Voice is also like having Meghan McCain be a judge on Project Runway.

How many people were going to pay attention to a second memoir by Moby if there wasn’t some “controversy”? Natalie Portman is still a very prominent A-lister. Moby is...not. Maybe he put it in as just a “fun” story, or maybe he wanted to get attention for his book. If the latter (which seems more likely), he’s…

This is certainly anecdata, but I used to work for a company that had a “social choice” option as one of its offered 401k plans. It worked on the broadest brushstrokes—it didn’t invest in weapons manufacturers, big tobacco, or other industries that are pretty clearly in the “cause harm” category—but the fund did…

Aren’t rom-coms usually depressing, though?