Nope, dated him for like 4 more months. And went on to date several other guys who expressed similar sentiments, and criticized my body frequently (and I date slightly chubby nerd boys by preference, so I’m not running after male fitness models here.)

There are some states that educational software companies won’t sell to, because you end up paying huge bribes just to get the contract (FL, cough.)

YES.

“Makes me wonder what she thought a “fat girl proposal” was.”

I’m the same way. Even though I’m a woman, I’ve been the one to ask out guys 99% of the time; and discovered that, most of the time, guys are terrible cowards and said “Yes” despite not liking me. A few guys dated me for MONTHS despite not really digging me, but because hey, I asked, and it was an ego stroke and I did…

“democrats typically approach voters as if they are assuming that they will vote republican unless convinced otherwise.”

“but I don’t know a soul that wants to ban contraception.” 

Could you please provide these studies that show “over and over” that the electorate is more significantly liberal? Cause I’ve seen articles and studies suggesting the *opposite*; that while some issues have gained greater acceptance, like gay marriage and weed legalization, Americans haven’t moved left or have even…

You might have a point; while I disliked her in Les Mis and Cinderella, she wasn’t nearly as bad as she was in Alice, Dark Shadows, Sweeney Todd, or Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

I also find criticism of a politician who represents their constituents’ positions strange. For example, Rose Twitter loves to slam Corey Booker as a “pharmaceutical shill”; except a huge portion of his state has jobs thanks to pharmaceuticals. Should he ignore his voters’ and the best interest of his state? Maaaaybe,…

Yeah, I gotta admit this gets some extra hard side-eye after I saw leftist attacks of both Kamela Harris and Corey Booker just a few months ago. How odd that no candidate, particularly those that are women or POC, except Sanders is progressive enough...

That’s true, I did enjoy her a bit more in The King’s Speech than in.... pretty much anything else. Hopefully she can tone it back.

Ugggggggh. Am I the only one who can’t stand Helena Bonham Carter? Her earlier movies are good, but the latest ones are nothing but her eating scenery as wild-eyed as possible. In a series that takes itself at least a little bit seriously, this seems an incredibly odd fit. Am I alone here?

Also, this economist’s take contradicts your theory that it’s the artists gouging their fans: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/live-event-ticket-market-screwed/

I continue to be extremely confused by the Verified Fan hate. I used it, and set my ticket prices to the lower amounts ($75, which is what I paid for 1989, to $130), and that’s the tickets it showed me first when I got my log in. Besides the album, I didn’t buy ANY merch, but had no problem getting a decent seat…

I tried to grab Beyonce tickets when she came through Minneapolis, and they were $80 for nosebleed seats (in a smaller stadium.) Ed Sheeran was even more expensive than Swift for the same seats. Adele was $200, similarly for nosebleed seats. Trans Siberian Orchestra was $50 for center-back-lower level seats. Sounds…

You just contradicted yourself. You say Taylor Swift is the most popular act in the country, but then point out that only groups that know they have a dedicated fanbase who shows up routinely for concerts do paperless ticketing; this exact article is how Swift DOESN’T actually have that huge of a dedicated fan base.

She was! Beyonce was at TCF Bank Stadium; maybe you’re thinking of her? I think XCel is still the popular place for concerts.

The issue isn’t the ticket prices, the original poster was complaining about fees? The fees that Ticketmaster sticks on afterwards? And the poster just above you pointed out that the fees go straight into Ticketmaster’s pocket, and finds ways to manipulate customers. Considering that Ticketmaster and Stubhub (which is…

“Do you really believe Taylor Swift doesn’t have the power to circumvent Ticketmaster and sell tickets to her fans at reasonable prices if she really wanted to do that?”