Except she had like 5 trainers working with that dog (and, given that she could afford it, those trainers were probably pretty good). Not every dog is the same, and to expect all situations to work out like your singular anecdotal experience is just to be willfully obtuse.

What is this argument? I keep hearing it time and time again as some condemnation of Lena for taking her dog places and it makes no sense. People take dogs to loud, heavily populated places all the time. If you live in a city, that’s the cost of taking your dog outside for a walk. I see dogs on city streets, in…

That’s not how mushrooms work.

Except that’s total bullshit. What the book says is that as a 7 year old, she looked at her baby sister’s vagina out of curiosity and saw pebbles between the labias and freaked out and called her mom. The sister put the pebbles there herself. It’s not a story that’s comfortable for an adult to read, but her action is…

Yes, these are my feelings about the book to show Ramsey transformation exactly.

Yes. They pretty much abandoned the North Remembers storyline, which was a beautiful beacon of Stark hope in the book. And by mixing Sansa into the fray they neglected Theon’s storyline, which was one of the better storylines of those two very mediocre books. The feel of it was completely different. The whole point…

The second and third sentence in your post is literally the stuff of nightmares.

Yeah, no. His name on the library is not okay. It doesn’t matter what a guy did for a college’s football team; enabling a child molester for decades erases that, full stop. Unfortunately, the mouth breathers in the Penn State community would take attempts to scrub Paterno off buildings as well as KKK members take…

Free press is under attack in America, so I fully concur that NYT better fight this.

Sweater dresses and boots was basically my law school uniform.

I think everybody knows that. But Gatsby is also an escapist story about beautiful people living in beautiful places, wearing beautiful things and having beautiful parties. And while the point of the book is partly to point out the superficiality of that lifestyle, it is also much of the charm of the book. That was,…

I had the opposite experience. In my law school, no one ever wore sweatpants (and some people actually dressed business casual). It was the most frustrating thing to me, a person who admittedly wore plenty of sweatpants in college, that I couldn’t wear ultra comfy clothes to school anymore if I didn’t want to look out…

Actually it can be had both ways. If Democrats had won an impossible election, it would be a huge win for Democrats. But losing is just maintaining the status quo. On the flip side, if Republicans lost this ultra safe district, it would be a huge loss for them. But since they won, it’s no big deal because winning (and…

But the North Carolina election where money was not heavily spent came similarly surprisingly close. There is something like 30 actual competitive, non-gerrymandered districts left. Democrats aren’t likely to go 30 for 30 in 2018 but they can pick up some. The real shot we have is still 2020.

Men are forgiven for their “mistakes” while women’s flaws are unforgivable. Just ask the “literal criminal Wall Street shill” who just lost the 2016 presidential election.

You’re not saying “He would’ve won” because you know that “issue” made no difference for anyone. It was just another stupid talking point for Republicans. If you admit that this was a cherry-picked Republican bulwark of a district, then what’s your point? No Democrat, not even Bernie Sanders come again, was going to…

But people won’t take five minutes to think and that’s the problem. The heading CNN is running on its front page right now is “Will Democrats ever win again?” With sub-linked articles titled “Republicans jittery about health care bill breathe a sigh of relief” and “In Georgia, close isn’t nearly good enough for…

If Ossoff runs in 2018, he just needs to run a campaign ad playing smug evil Handel saying “I don’t believe in a livable wage” over and over and over again. Whoever runs against the Montana guy just needs to play that audio of the reporter getting body slammed over and over and over again. Then each candidate (and…

But a much less closely watched and funded special election in South Carolina had the Democrat lose by an even slimmer margin than Ossoff a county that Mulvaney won by 20 points. The real takeaway here is that Democrats and the media need to stop hyping up these deep red district elections as a “referendum on Trump”.…

I actually know someone who knows her personally, and the take away from that person’s experiences with her is that she IS mean. Like she’s supposedly just awful and insufferable.