I just listened to a new podcast by radio lab about the Lawrence case, it was really interesting. Lawrence was a test case and hard to find because it was so rarely enforced. Lawrence was not an ideal defendant to go to the Supreme Court as he maintained he was not having sex when the police came in. Otherwise, he…

Yeah, for the old money,the only way they stay that way is by knowing how to be productive, or at least knowing how not to waste a fortune.

I was so happy when the “skinny jeans are over” stories started coming out, but now it has become skinny every kind of pant, for all people oath of these boys are very slender, yet those pants look punishingly tight. When are we going to remember how lovely it is to bend your knees and not wear fabric with Lycra mixed…

Oh man! I love that movie! Off to watch it again!

I’ve worked/been classmates with a surprising numbers (to me) of people from wealthy families too. I think they suffer from the expectation that any career/purpose they pursue should be epic. Can’t just be a middling level banker at Meryl Lynch, you should start your own hedge fund managing a billion or two. Can’t be…

To me, this is an example of how representation is important. I think a reasonably compassionate man would have been outraged as well, but the discomfort and humiliation of not having a tampon or pad while being unable to wash up is something that women understand.

I don’t know anything about the more theoretical ideas you’re exploring, but I think the atmosphere surrounding Ailes was brutal. Terry Gross interviewed an author who wrote a biography/expose of Ailes. He said that the staff at Fox assumes their building is bugged and that Ailes himself monitors conversations, that…

Maybe they will forget, and maybe they won’t. They are are far more likely to remember if dedicated people continue to work to change the party. Change always seems so slow until it is fast. Also, some of the things Sanders wanted changed in democratic policies have changed. We spent the entire primary talking about…

Holy shit, I can’t believe she is 52?! So gorgeous and wearing the hell out of that dress. I saw the Obamas at his first inauguration, they are just totally magnetic.

Franken’s smile here is awesome. You can see it in his eye that he would love to tell the chanters the same. I don’t think we all have to fall in line and behave perfectly once a nominee is picked, there is still stuff to fight for, but fight for the ideas and not a single man. Sanders is a good senator who espouses…

I think there is value in having people of color present in the scene,bEcause they were actually there at the time. We imagine the US and Europe in the past as far more homogenous than it was in part because of movies that only show us white people in historical contexts. There are other options besides racist…

What a surprise that having a serial harasser as a senior leader would create an atmosphere of blatant sexual harassment.

I agree, there a bunch of nice day trips around, we’ve just reached the part of summer I find really tough. I don’t really mind the heat up until around now every year. I usually get over it sometime in August, but right now I am just sick of feeling sweaty all the time and that feeling of breathing in air that is…

Every time I brush by the mra crowd I’m so tempted to engage, though I know it will do no good for me, them, or the universe. I don't get his tweets, is he calling someone a cuck for life or proclaiming he is one for life, or saying he wants to fuck one and have nail polish painted on his strong, strong nails? Makes…

Great list! It is a hundred thousand degrees in Houston this weekend, def. time for some YouTube travels.

I’m not sure there is enough powder in the world to hide that shame. Paul Ryan is of my pale, pale people, we are red all the time.

I don’t really care that her dress was manufactured overseas. I do care that Trump viewed a presidential campaign as the appropriate venue to promote her clothing line. Would this continue from the White House? Do we really want a country where the president’s family blatantly uses their proximity to power to enhance…

Wait, he hires her? I thought she became a children's book editor? That movie did suck though, Tom Hanks character was such a dick, def. not in an endearing Mr. Darcy way.

I never knew there is a word for it! Between that one, schadenfruede, and the one that mean “a face in need of a punch”, German has all the best words.

Oh God. I admire the moxie, but I can’t handle watching awkwardness on that epic a scale long enough to watch the clip. Colbert truly is made of iron. Also, never noticed the resemblance to Stanley Tucci before.