“But no one told me that the quote-unquote “loss” of that pre-baby body can be freedom. That you don’t realize how much you are imprisoned by your relative bodily proximity to, and striving toward, a mainstream ideal until you decidedly “lose” your ability to perform some piece of that ideal.”

Definitely this. If people of color would just stay in their place, racist whites wouldn’t feel the need to lash out.

“I hope Mrs Obama sends her a lovely note about keeping her chins up when things are looking down”

Much of the post-Obama-era racism must come from some degree of jealousy. It’s misguided jealousy (as in “my whiteness/not-blackness/whatever-racial-demographic means I should be more accomplished than these black people, but I’m not, so I’m going to write hate speech to make myself feel better”), but jealousy…

The probability that Pamela Ramsay Taylor loudly and frequently complains abouts “black welfare queens committing welfare fraud” = 0.999999....

If they don’t recycle all that glass... well, guess who just like quadrupled thier carbon footprint. Not like they would care or anything... by the way, I think it’s pretty much fact that everyone agrees Kanye is a narcissist... and narcs pretty much never do nice thoughtful things unless they are A. Lovebombing, or…

He's just worked up about abortion because he missed his chance with Eric.

This! I’m 25 and all I knew about Lorena Bobbitt was jokes about her being crazy and cutting a guy’s dick off. It’s wild how much of this case was stripped away

I was still in elementary school when this happened, so the only memories I have of it from the time are those of the jokes and punchlines, of a woman so crazy to have done something like this. And that’s all I really understood of it well into my adulthood.

Could have put two families into affordable housing depending on the city. Like fully paid for small homes.

I would like to ask that every time Jezebel posts about a Kardashian display of excess (this, Kylie’s over the top b-day party for a 1 year old, etc.) they also calculate the estimated cost of the excess.

I didn’t even know Kenny G was still alive

There will always be a few die hards, but at some point the awareness of just how rich the rich are getting, and how stagnant ordinary people's finances are has to start to register.

Further to this morning’s story about North West and her Valentine’s Day gift from Tiffany’s, this is the Kardashian-West family giving reason number two in one day for raising the top marginal tax rate. Raising it a lot.

Preach. I’ve worked for several companies in the customer services department, and when the companies run into financial trouble (or when stockholders start complaining that their profits aren’t high enough) the first department that’s always affected is Customer Service. Every single time. The department is usually…

They’re not suits, they’re white dudes in Silicon Valley wearing hoodies.

As someone that lives in one of those 8 states I’m consistently shocked how the other 42 work. The definition of tip is: “a sum of money given to someone as a reward for their services.” It’s a reward, not their wage.

Employees at the bottom of the chain work the hardest and get fucked the hardest. It’s the American way!

Jesus fucking CHRIST, will the nickel-and-diming of the struggling worker NEVER STOP? Now they want to use a complicated formula to basically cheat their drivers, as if the company deserves a cut? The company is already getting the delivery fee - do they really begrudge the drivers a couple of bucks? Do some companies…

I hope everyone that reads this and goes “This is so clearly wrong!” also then applies that same thinking to restaurants. Because this model is a really old and well worn concept and all they are doing basically what every restaurant does to their serving staff which is entirely legal and supported by the government…