I admire her too, but I don't think she is very good at running for office. Her campaign in 08 was just bad. Obama beat her because his team was more organized and they researched primary/caucus rule everywhere and adjusted strategies accordingly. I've never liked the Clinton triangulating style, but that is assuming…

also, I find it strange that so many people have such firm resistance to vaccines. Why not antibiotics? They are massively powerful drugs and contain all the same preservatives people fear in vaccines. Yet we take them like candy.

it's exactly like climate deniers. This American Life has done stories on both and ask them what it would take to change their minds, no one they talked to had an answer. Their position is a belief and for a core group, it is impervious to rational argument. It's foreign to me, I've spent some time trying to come up…

this sounds like what California is starting to do. I hope they change the personal belief exemption, but in the meantime, non-vaccinated kids should be subject to the other communicable disease prevention strategy, quarantine. In a vaccine-less world, the reality is that schools close when there is a outbreak of…

Yes, totally. I think I'm super lazy and anti-social, but after only three days at home (and now it has been ten days sick) I was having very serious discussions with my dog about who really 'owns' the stuffed rhinoceros. She does, of course. And it turns out I was super happy to go back to work on day 7. Without tv…

I have had bronchitis and have been laying low with bad enough laryngitis that talking on the phone is difficult for the last two weeks (I've been pretty active on jezebel though, thanks guys!). I've binged elementary, dominion (bonkers, but I love it!), the good wife, and tons of old how I met your mother episodes.…

when I was I grad school friends reruns were on five episodes a night. My roommates and I watched then all every day for like a year. It was the way we became friends. Binge watching for us was all the social energy we had that year where we were so god damned busy an episode of law and order:SVU was too mentally…

except for it is legal every, you can only get a marriage license in some states, but the marriage is then valid for all public purposes everywhere. Gay marriages are extremely unusual in that they have been allowed to be declared valid or invalid on a governing body by governing body basis.

Nothing makes you hate the shareholders more than working at a big, publically traded firm. They react to such stupid shit, and watching executives do dumb stuff to placate them is maddening.

Senator Fischer's point is that businesses budget their spending on staff by weighing the cost of providing a benefit vs. the gain in retention, productivity, etc. is right. Businesses have decided that it is in their best interests to offer few or no support benefits and just hire somebody new if that drives women…

Cecily Strong kills in so many sketches. She seems to get overshadowed by Kate McKinnon and, recently, Leslie Jones, but such a rock solid player. With all the talk last year about the white dude brigade coming in, I feel like people have missed that snl has an outstanding troupe of women right now.

what the hell? Have they been doing this to hundreds of women? Because Clifton South Central has capacity for 1676 men. Even assuming each man gets only 1 not pregnant female visitor of childbearing age per year, and each not pregnant woman of child bearing age has a 1/4-1/6 chance of menstruating on any given day,…

that just sounds like a ton going on right now. I've done secret job searches while working full time—it totally sucks and nothing works out until suddenly something does. I remember getting some great leads, but then that would mean more intro email, more thank you notes, more just everything, including time sitting…

I agree that they did the right thing. I was curious how it came to light, it was during review of security footage for a vandalism investigation that campus's ecurity saw her being dragged into a dorm room. Security turned it over to Nashville PD, then the police investigated. It bums me out that this seems like a…

also, what Millennial voters are they polling in Arizona that are more anti-abortion than old white guys?

Freaking hilarious. It actually gives me a teeny tiny amount of hope for the republican controlled house and senate. They have, for so long, given over control to their increasingly nutty right wing. Maybe true factions will develope and some Republicans might, just maybe, look for support from moderate democrats to…

sounds fun! I've never been to a ren fair even though there is a big one close by (outside of Austin). The other gathering I would love to go to is a steampunk fair, just looks like a great time. I'm generally too lazy and way too bad at sewing to come up with a. Good costume.

I think I know this from historical romance novels too, even maybe which one. I think it was a medieval Julie Garwood novel? Maybe gentle warrior?

Ha! This was awesome.

I just did. Super funny and holy cow is Victoria Beckinsale beautiful!