Kirsten Gillibrand (in the Senate) and Rosa DeLauro (in the House) have introduced the FAMILY Act (the Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act). If passed, it would provide up to 12 weeks per year of paid medical leave (including parental leave) at 66% of a worker's salary. I wrote my representatives urging them to…

Her boyfriend (Lucas Neff) is also a very outspoken feminist and extremely politically involved. They are a neat couple.

Not the Golden Globes, but here's a red carpet shot with Laura making a great face:

anyone else click thinking it was going to be a gallery of all Laura Dern's Globes looks ever?

Texas also gave us Molly Ivins (RIP). She cancels out an awful lot of stupid.

ahem. there are two divisions of cool rock star.

Image via Terry Fucking Richardson

Time for a musical interlude:

It'd be great if people could do that, but so many people have kids bc they're trying to make a mini replica of themselves, live through childhood again, or psychically work out their own failures through the kid. Many parents are treating their kids like shit for life bc the kid decided to be their own person, & had…

We're always left in the dark...I mean not getting the light of day... I mean... damn we can't even have our own turns of phrase!!

Honestly, I really don't think Jezebel would have a problem with this. It is a girl who sees something she likes, something she identifies with strongly aesthetically, and decides she would be very OK wearing it. To her it is a pretty outfit, not some demeaning symbol of objectification and servitude.

Ann Coulter is NOT a cunt. She lacks the depth and warmth.

As a rape survivor:

Also included are some depressing quotes from Gérard Araud, French Ambassador to the U.S. (who, Osnos noted, has become one of Power's "closest collaborators"):

Yeah, how could he know? Poor boy must have been living in a vacuum. /s

oh snap! i got a mazda miata!! sweet, i actually just bought a 2014 mazda 3. wouldve considered the new miata, like the way it looks too. cool story bro

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Nope. She is definitely saying "Fuckin' hell."