My speculation is that she told her mother she didn’t sleep with him before the wedding. So it’s not just “tarnishing her image,” it’s admitting she lied to them. That could be a hard one to swallow if you lost a child so young.

The part where the girl was talking about how guilty she felt about getting a house when everyone else had shitty tents, and then they cut to her and her friends dancing in said house, was hysterical.

I LOVED THAT. I could tell he was getting ready to take off the mic and walk off, and he did not disappoint.

Funny, I thought of the local employee angle after I posted this but didn’t get the chance to come back and edit that exception in. Of course those people got screwed hard and there’s nothing funny about them having put in months of work or thousands of dollars of material and gotten nothing in return. My lack of…

It’s really fun. And since McFarland actually got a jail sentence and all his victims seemed like douchebags anyhow, I didn’t even have to feel bad for anybody. Definitely worth the watch.

On the one hand, McFarland is an even dumber Trump and should never get money for anything. And paying sources for interviews is definitely bad journalism. So ethically, yeah, I see the argument against paying him.

I don’t know what to tell you. Of course I’m aware of Howard and some of its cultural influence, but specifics of which Greek house does what? Nah. I asked my husband and he remembered something AKA did during pledge week but didn’t know skee-wee, either.

Funny you’d say that — I’ve been around DC since 1992. Went to the University of Maryland, married a man who’s also been here since childhood, and live in an inner suburb. I’m pretty dang DC, as such things go. But I knew from a young age that the Greek system is not for me, so anything I ever heard about it was in…

I don’t get the “he has daughters!” thing. Most adults reproduce at some point or another, should we be permanently exempt from public criticism because God forbid our kids see it? It’s the dumbest excuse there is.

First, I would have had no idea what “skee-wee” is, and it’s not (just) because I’m white. It’s because I generally know fuck-all about sororities and fraternities for anybody. Just not a subject I ever had the slightest interest in. (No, I wasn’t very popular in college.)

I once asked one of the #MuteRKelly founders that on Twitter. She asked me if I really still wanted to hear the songs knowing what I know about Kelly, and I had to admit I didn’t. So I’d say the ultimate goal of the movement is to make people not *want* to hear his songs.

What bugged me about the HuffPo piece is that of course some Native American leaders are going to either support Warren despite the criticism, or think the controversy is overblown. It’s not like there’s some Indian mind-meld where they all agree on every possible issue, and more that there’s a mind-meld for any other…

I’m thinking about the muggle-born. They would have spent their childhoods using outhouses or chamber pots or whatever in the conventional way, and then they go to this fancy magic boarding school and find out they’re just supposed to piss on themselves? 

The best use we’ve found for ours is as a stereo. It’s nice to be able to say “Alexa, play Astral Weeks” and then it does, without having to get off the couch or fiddle with a device. But articles like this make me wonder if that small pleasure is worth all the surveillance I’m inviting.

I don’t think it’s confusion exactly, so much as yet another example of how women have to be ALL THE THINGS. You have to look like Jessica Simpson with the perfect blonde hair and the flat stomach and your tits out, but you aren’t supposed to actually want or have sex. You have to be this perfect male sexual fantasy,…

I’m almost as impressed by how good HRC is at looking like she didn’t notice their existence.

I’m an Elizabeth who was called Beth as a kid, which is itself a pop culture name — my mom got it from Little Women. So shoutout to Beth March for saving me from life as yet another Liz, I guess.

Agreed. He’s also trying to be funny, and it’s not very entertaining if the interviewer is constantly showing off how much he knows.

I could understand if they said the girlfriend had to follow the same rules as a male visitor, since Baker agreed to have her romantic relationships micromanaged in that way when she decided to live in the dorm. But saying the girlfriend can’t be in the lounge during the day? That’s just ridiculous. I agree with the…

There’s an episode with his mom, and his family has owned and run a small newspaper for like six generations. So he’s from a background that would value facts and reading. My sense is that the bubbly airhead thing is his act, and he enjoys it, but if you read his Twitter feed or listen to what he actually says when…