Kate Middleton = the highest echelon of Basic Bitch™

She's so relateably-fashionable (Just go with it). She makes you feel like if you could just drag your lazy ass out of bed 40 minutes earlier (or at least 10 minutes before you're going to miss the bus) you could look like her. She's inspirational because her style is attainable. And then you remember you're 20lbs…

Very much so. I've never worked food service or waited tables, but I've worked a lot of retail, and it's the same sort of thing. You're a servant or babysitter or whatever they need you to be at the moment, but never a real person with a real job.

Exactly! Because, of course, it's *also* their fault for having fallen on hard times, so they should take what they get and be grateful.

Funny thing...I just read something recently that says the expression "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" was originally meant to describe something impossible.

It's pure snobbery. They think they're smarter and better-educated and, well, just BETTER in general than low-wage workers, never mind that a lot of people in service jobs have or are working toward degrees (and it's required for most supervisory positions). Never mind, also, that education doesn't measure the value…

I don't get the people who begrudge paying a living wage to people who are preparing food for them to eat FFS. Haven't they seen Clerks 2?

Not only that, she would probably still be Vice President right now.

Thank Cheeses Almighty she didn't become VP because hormones y'all.

No, Republicans are idiots not to realize that having stagnant wages that don't keep up with inflation is bad for the economy. If the wealth gap continues to grow the way is has, it will be another repeat of the Great Depression.

God, I wish President Obama would go radical socialist... just for like a month. Come on!

This is the best statement/post I've read regarding this whole tragic event.

Not necessarily though. If Tony was trying to avoid him with no malicious intent (clipping, hitting, spraying with dirt) then it was just an accident caused by Ward's presence on the track and aggressive approach of Tony's car that would be the cause of the accident. At that point it would be like you playing frogger…

That's not how America works. Innocent until proven guilty.

I've almost called the girls over when she freezes, tail up, and uh, flexing her muscles (thanks to the close-up, we saw this), but still, nothing yet. We've missed the pooping, she hasn't stopped eating all day!

I've seen ewes drop a lamb, and it does seem like a pretty messy business. What amazes me is how they look around all casual, like, yeah, I did that, and the lamb gets up and wobbles around right away. Amazing. I didn't even leave my room for two days after giving birth.

I am really ready for the coles notes version of Giraffe birth. This goddamn thing has been walking around for 40 min and has done almost nothing. Shit your baby already strange horse.

He had to move that huge rock out of the way, remember?

Michael Kors....

It kinda makes me sad. My Grandma (rest her soul) was the winner of a series of beauty pageants in the 40's, and I was a bit of a disappointment, seeing as I was a huge (literally 5'10" @ 12 y/o) tomboy.

Bette Midler, I love you. Can we be neighbors?