I guess he missed the gun safety course.

Sometimes when I see ridiculous commercials, I try to imagine what that pitch meeting must have been like, and I feel like the phrase “protest is the new brunch” was uttered in this one.

That diagram is excellent. I disagree with Judas’ assertion that it hasn’t been true since 2004, I’m afraid that’s categorically incorrect. On social matters in particular, we’re still far more liberal here, as that article shows.

You’re absolutely right. This article sets it out (very broadly) in handy diagram form: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/how-conservative-would-uk-conservatives-be-us/312573/

I’m not sure why you think I’m playing something here - Lincoln’s politics were liberal, as are British politics in the main, hence the mention. It’s not a trump card in a hand of poker, just a fact. It’s not a score card: 1-0 to the the Brits or anything like that - many US readers are unfamiliar with UK politics and…

Sadly, we don’t get a day off to celebrate our loss of the colonies and eat too many hot dogs or set off fireworks.

Essentially, the statues are a small number of people who have had a lasting impact on the UK, the UK’s world perception (Ghandi, Mandela) or democracy, and Lincoln falls into many of those categories.

Another suffragette has a superb plaque within Parliament, itself secretly (and illegally) placed there by the wonderful late MP Tony Benn.

Yeah, I’m one of those girls. I was diagnosed at 17 after years of being told that I couldn’t have it because I was too social. I honestly think that it isn’t really more prevalent in boys at all. They’re just the ones getting the diagnosis.

Last week I found out I was being laid off.

I’m going to need therapy from reading this.

April Fools Day is just a sanctioned day for assholes to lie and embrace their asshole nature.

That’s fucked up and I am picturing the kids on the editorial board laughing about it. In my head they are all wearing blazers and loafers and look like Paul Ryan.

My first instinct would be to kick Ian in the nuts, but I’d probably actually chuckle and high five him after a moments thought.

I feel similar about how trendy armpit hair has gotten. Like, awesome, but where the fuck were you all when I was getting shit for the last decade and a half?

Imagine if this had been mentioned several times in the article you skimmed. Just imagine!

Please watch Orange is the New Black and Wentworth too. They are both fabulous shows about a diverse group of women who happen to be locked up.

The warring factions in the GOP is seriously giving me life right now.

Be safe in the knowledge that the sort of folks who randomly attack the happiness of others when it has zero impact on their own lives have already suffered enough: they’ve likely spent an angry lifetime barking and screeching at everything, and are likely profoundly broken and filled with sadness. Pity them.

Dear god, they KILLED it with the wedding dresses. They both look completely angelic.