I kind of wish someone would do a rebuttal to this (to try and get through to some of the thick-headed conservatives) along the lines of "Do you not want a MALE showering next to your 14-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER? Great, then you should support this policy so that the trans boy that's been forced by the school to shower next…

Food service version of this: working drive-thru duty at a coffee/breakfast-serving fast food joint. On the 5am shift. During blizzard season.

I would watch the _shit_ out of this West Wing reboot...

Sidebar Headline #1: "Here Are the Most and Least Obese States in the US"
Sidebar Headline #2: "Taco Bell is Product Testing a Biscuit Taco"

This gets pointed out periodically - the LEAST obese state in 2014 still has a considerably higher rate than the MOST obese state in 1990. I'm sure the answer to this question is out there for me to dig up, but seriously, what the hell happened in the past 15 years?? It's not like fast food, long work hours, and…

It's interesting to note that the most obese states are without exception very poor and red states (with subsequently restricted access to education, quality health care, etc.), but the healthiest states *don't* just a direct map to "rich, blue, and highly-educated" but instead are a mix of better-funded blue states…

YOU ARE NOT ALONE JEREMY RENNER IS DELIGHTFUL.

Show me the prescription your doctor wrote you for "solid gold Ferrari" and we'll talk (although be serious: no insurance is going to cover the fancy overseas brand name when there's a good ol' USA-made generic available. Enjoy your solid gold Chevy.)

*more* articulate?

radium

Enh, I feel like this can go the other way as well. I've gone onto "stuff" registries with a budget of $25 and found that the only thing on there at or under that price is a spatula or some shit. It becomes a physical manifestation of how little I can afford. I sometimes feel guilted into throwing more stuff on there…

I'd never seen it before either. Honestly, my reaction isn't even rage; it's more just "...what?" Like, he gets super-distressed if someone looks a bit more masculine (or, presumably, feminine) from a particular angle? He is abruptly alarmed and confused about a person's gender if they look a little different at some…

Poor Hawaii. Where that lovely category of "Other" encompasses the (already-absurdly-broad) Asian-American, Polynesian, native Hawaiian...