The mining is a palate cleanser.

Doesn’t sound so much like she was cutting out of wedding duties to meet with a reporter as that she brought the reporter as her plus one (who else is she going to bring who won’t attract attention?) and it gave her someone to talk to extensively over the course of the day thus keeping random strangers from accosting…

So is fettered access, for that matter! (consensual, of course)

The Beverly Cleary piece made me all warm and happy, but after this I need a shower. And not in any kind of good way.

I saw her profiled with him within the last few years — not related to running for office. They seemed to get along fine and she seemed pretty normal. Of course “seem” is always the operative word with the Trumps, but she grew up outside the gilded cage, so may be the most normal. I remember thinking that Marla did a…

Now somebody tell those guys that you don’t get an epidural the instant you ask for it, not to mention there’s a point of no return where they’re not going to give it to you anyway...

I think both photos should definitely be shown together. I live in Boston, there has been extensive coverage (which I’ve mostly ignored) and I saw this photo for the first time a couple of weeks ago. Wanted to kick myself for buying into the defense makeover strategy.

Arguing. They were arguing. Not fighting. Maybe using bad words. Maybe making threats. But not touching each other (yet). Looks like the cop grabbed her and she freaked. Her friends were telling her to chill, and she wasn’t listening to them — but I suspect the cop’s behavior was because she didn’t instantly follow…

One of the issues that has come up in countries that have implemented such programs is that the criminal syndicates are the ones who can afford the rents in the zoned areas where it’s legal, and the staff to jump through the bureaucratic hoops, and it creates barriers for the small business or individual solo worker…

My friend got her 13 year old’s school pictures back... and they photoshopped out her braces. Without being asked to do so.

I don’t know the year the book was written, but back around 1980 when I weighed 115 (at 5'5") I was a size 10-12. We didn’t have sizes two and zero then, and I didn’t know any fours. The super slim girls were 6s. Sizes were adjusted in subsequent years to keep the heavier women in sizes under 20. 14 was definitely a…

I thought I was going to get an amusing entitled douchebag story, not a depressing emotionally wrecked elderly man story.

Okay, don’t take candy or beverages from strangers, but if some random guy hands you a tampon, slam it in, no worries.

Be sure to take two veils with you.

I suspect she was the third wheel...

People — always get a recording! If nothing else, when the “I would never-ever — she’s a crazy lying bitch who’s fabricating this entire thing!” defense comes out, their own behavior can be put on blast.

Gigi herself is Muslim, isn’t she? I’ve assumed so. Perhaps not. It’s important to know so Cruz can patrol her neighborhood.

Ah, Eostre, goddess of the dawn. Her month just happens to coincide with the Pascal holidays...

As I recall the response from the usual suspects to that very real issue was that the solution was simple. The women with those issues should provide detailed written documentation to their company’s personnel department outlining their medical diagnosis, and personnel would take it into account and grant a waiver. Or…

You realize that birth control pills are used for many female reproductive issues other than actual prevention of reproduction, right? The woman in the office next to me is a devout Catholic, 60 years old, likely a virgin, and was on birth control pills from the age of 12 because of horrific period issues. The…