Yea, that made me laugh since they are, in effect, doing the exact opposite.

Yea, but what I find annoying is that’s not what happened, anyway. They HAVE made changes to the Gardner, including about a million “don’t touch” signs, and no one’s ever been able to explain to me how that’s fundamentally different from just putting up some placards that say both “don’t touch” and also explain what…

1. This was known when the op-ed was published, and plenty of other outlets noted that, because journalism.

My dad wanted to go to the Gardner museum for his birthday this year (we’ve been there probably half a dozen times) and I was struck by how viewer-unfriendly so much of it was. I know that Isabella Stewart Gardner said in her will that things should be left more or less as they were, but considering that didn’t happen…

There must be something wrong with me, because I’ve literally never understood these princess fantasies. Even before I became a dirty, lefty, feminist killjoy I always thought that my fellow American’s obsession with royals (and with “being a princess,” in particular) to be deeply, deeply weird. 

In fairness, a lot of Armenians have skin that is quite brown. I always think that a lot of Kim’s pictures (including the one used here of her in the red dress) look like she has used make-up to make herself look paler than I think she naturally is.

My parents and grandparents scripped and saved to get my sister and I American girl dolls for Christmas one year when we were younger (we’re both in our late-20s now). I had Josephina, and my sister had Kit. We loved them, and when we grew up my mom packed them away. Fast-forward a decade or so and our baby sister (14…

Yea, I mean, I think there is going to be a maturity gap between a 21 year old and a 29 year old, but not nearly as much as between a 21 year old and a 36 year old. 

Is that story supposed to relate to the Lana Del Ray thing? Was the cop she is dating in that particular episode? Did he shoot the young man? Did any cop shoot the young man or was he shot by someone else? The whole thing is so confusingly written that I genuinely have no idea what the hell is attempting to be said,…

I think I read somewhere that the slow-blink thing is a sign of trust in cats. 

My cat loves to headbutt me, but she is enormous (sometimes I think she might be half-bobcat) and every time she does it I feel like it’s about to break my nose.

Can anyone who is smart on Northern Irish politics either explain or direct me to a good article about the significance of Sinn Fein winning North Belfast? I know that it is the first time NI will have a Nationalist majority “going” (or not going, as the case may be) to Westminster, but exactly how huge is this? Like,
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Because when I think of a classy atmosphere, I think of college football games. 

Yea, the Russians dealt with their royal problem in a pretty efficient manner. Same (extended) family, too.

Yea, people get too caught up in the “romantic” tale of the Romanovs, but the truth is that the Tsars were awful people who were terrible to their subjects, kept feudalism around until 1861, were thoroughly incompetent and often bordered on stupid, and mixed that in with a belief in autocracy that the rest of Europe…

*Slight spoilers for season 6* I loved the moment when she had the heart-to-heart with Vanessa Gecko, and she realized that this competition she’s been in with this other successful woman in her field has been all in her head. Gecko doesn’t hate Princess Caroline, and offers her good advice on the struggles she is…

23 films not in English have won Oscars (in 31 categories, 39 individuals awarded) outside of the Best Foreign Language/ Best International Film category. Another 2 were films originally in another language but have been dubbed into English (one from Japan and one from France).

No one. It’s an interesting footnote when some races are mentioned, and is mostly just for making a point. To my knowledge, conceding makes things easier for a lot of civil servants by removing some red tape, but the election can still be certified and declared valid without him ever admitting that he lost.

Bevin, who’d initially hinged his campaign on fighting the Affordable Care Act

Well, right, but that’s not some conspiracy against this particular film, that’s just the price of playing for an Oscar (and that applies to the Best International Film, too).