Reposted from The Root:

Something I wish someone had mentioned to me longer ago: if you keep a pond of lampreys big enough that you COULD throw someone into it, you get a lot less broken crystal.

Something I wish someone had mentioned to me longer ago: if you keep a pond of lampreys big enough that you COULD…

Can someone please explain to me why they are doing this? What about Sanders are they getting behind? I don’t understand why the Dems aren’t full on embracing Warren, who is *clearly* the best candidate.

“What word means horny for humility?”

Yeah. That bugged me too. Batman’s parents were mega rich, but still they were good people. It can happen.

You say that, but if someone had asked you yesterday, “Who would you say is the world’s most beloved villain?” Would The Joker not be in your top 5?

The question on everyone’s mind when watching Joker is and will be: how dangerous is this? Will the target demographic of young white men be inspired by this Joker?

Anyone going into the film is likely familiar with Jokers of yore: Jack Nicholson’s dancing and campy gangster, Heath Ledger’s cunning and truly brilliant criminal mastermind, and whatever Jared Leto was trying to do​ in Suicide Squad​.

I’m an oncologist who specializes in breast cancer. I also have early, horribly symptomatic menopause. I’ll keep my estrogen supplementation, thank you very much.

“Future generations.” You say that like it’s so guaranteed :/

if it’s an existing condition, many insurance policies have a claws that prevents treatment.

He needs to shed his skin once or twice more...

Hasn’t he slouched back off to R’leyh yet? It’s almost spawning season.

I want Ayra to kill everyone and then she pulls off her face and she’s Sean Bean.

This doesn’t surprise me. Cycles of abuse are self-perpetuating. I’m surprised more people aren’t pointing out how distressingly similar the details of this assault are to her allegation against Weinstein: the grooming and isolating of the victim, providing alcohol before attacking etc. It’s infuriating to think…

No-holds-barred fuck-you-I-got-mine capitalism for you and me and financial socialism for the rich, is how.

I’m so broken-hearted right now. First my home country the US and now the place that has been my safe haven for the past 30 years. I was banking on Germany remaining stable so that my sister would have some place to go if worse comes to worst in the US. Now I have to decide which place is more likely to get their shit…

If Merkel’s Interior Minister dissolved the government, and there were new elections, then the government would still build detention centers. The AfD party would probably win a much larger share of the vote and there would be a right/center-right alliance as opposed to a more centrist alliance. In this situation,…

That’s pretty much the reaction from Germans as well. Our Secretary of the Interior, Horst Seehofer, is anxious to not let his party, the CSU, lose any votes to the far-right extremist AfD party in the next Bavarian election (where he’s been the Head of State before his current job), so he made asylum seekers the BIG…