Isn't that expression ("looking like butter wouldn't melt in her/his mouth") a standard idiom in the US (I'm assuming you're American)? Genuinely curious; I'm from a UK-English speaking country, and I think of that as a pretty ordinary turn-of-phrase.

So no one has considered the obvious on this, that she simply didn't use email for State Department business?

I usually hate SNL and I found this sketch hilarious. There's criticism of our smaltzy nationalistic treatment of sending our kids off to war on our own side, plus a treatment of the irrational anxiety that gripped every parent who read about the 3 UK teens still AWOL somewhere in Syria.

Maybe this says something about me, but I just collapsed in a ball laughing after watching that sketch

Honestly, I think so much of it has to do with certain people not wanting a black woman telling them what they should and shouldn't eat. Like you said, culturally loaded landlines.

*nods* And there's something kind of...condescending...about the assumption that just because a woman abandons a baby, she's just doing it because she doesn't know better. Maybe she does know better - maybe this isn't the ideal solution, but it's the best she has right now.

are most women in the habit of sensually stroking their cleavage before they put their clothes on?

No, the most recent one I had access to (in the right size) was a collage of her mugshots. For some reason or another I thought that would be in bad taste.

Possums are the creepiest little fuckers. I mean I wouldn't go near any squirrels or raccoons either, but they don't freak my shit like possums do for some reason.

Nah. I commented above. This woman is CLEARLY starving herself and to comment on it is not body shaming. She needs helps and that needs to be pointed out. Not in a "ugh, she's so skinny, eat a sandwich bitch" type way. But, from a place of "no really...she probably needs help" sort of way. Because over the years we've…

To be honest, I think her apology was good and sincere but then again, maybe someone else wrote it. I love how so many people on Twitter got together and defended Zendaya. It's important to let the Giulianas of the world that they will NOT get away with disrespecting people of color. Also, I love how Kelly Osbourne is…

I will go so far as to say that he shouldn't be harassed. Not because he doesn't deserve some hell in his life for what he's done. He absolutely does deserve some hell. But he shouldn't be harassed because it just reinforces the underlying idea that online harassment/doxxing/swatting/et al. are legitimate ways of…

"If you look at the history of people who do actually get prosecuted for threatening women," she told Jezebel by phone this morning, "invariably when it goes to court they say, 'Hey, hey this was just a joke."

He kept up with it for TWO YEARS?! Doesn't sound like much of a joke to me.

That guy is an asshole and probably a sociopath. Who on Earth would think this is valid humour?

Nah, fuck that noise.

I didn't get that she was tipsy, particularly, maybe just a bit overwhelmed. Believe it or not, just because you're an Academy Award winning actress doesn't mean you're excellent at being witty on the red carpet. Or that you're INTERESTED in being witty on the red carpet as opposed to saying something meaningful when…

Is it wrong that I fully expect my best friend who happens to be gay to be as supportive of and vocal about my rights as a female as I have been for his rights as a gay person? He and I have discussed it and he even agrees-how could he NOT stand with me when I continue to stand with him?

It's honestly fucking disgusting the amount of people in the comments saying to leave them there. They are children (teenagers-whatever they are not chemically balanced enough to make these decisions) who have been groomed by people to believe the hype. Would you leave a 15 year old girl in the hands of a 40 year old…

Getting boners when killing people is only bad if there are no people that need to be killed, and he starts killing other people.