Maybe just back away slowly...

When I was a kid, the local drugstore had a counter of costume jewelry, including a ring with huge triangular cubic zirconias, and I wanted it so badly that I asked for it for Christmas. Upon receiving it, I put it on and went to school and told everyone I had gotten engaged to John Taylor, the bassist for Duran Duran.…

Here is my favorite one from the World Cup because of the story behind it. England manager Gareth Southgate consoling Colombia’s Mateus Uribe moments after Uribe’s crucial missed penalty in England’s shootout win over Colombia. It’s unique in that 22 years ago, Southgate missed a shootout kick against Germany that led…

“mongrel hordes” Excuse me? This reads like a description of a non-playable race straight out of Dungeons&Dragons, or maybe bad Tolkien fanfic. If you’re interested in history, it’s the one without overwrought cliches.

Croatia is one of the most right wing counties in Europe. The brutal Nazi-collaborating Ustashe are still venerated as heroes there.

Translation: While in L.A., I went to a fitness class where a group of women jumped on mini trampolines while music played.

Alas! I cannot claim credit: h/t to some Jezebel entertainment reviewer, who was describing her love of “Netflix horny costume dramas.” But it’s such a lovely turn of phrase I have to use it whenever I can.

And soon.

“Good morning to the media — the legitimate media and the fake-news media. Good morning to them. A lot of good people here. Surprising.”

Talk about burying the lede! WTF, Forbes?!

Forbes has become the People magazine of financial matters. Meaning, it’s a “friend to the stars.”

Damn. Spicy Files. I’d forgotten all about that places!

Vice produced a very interesting documentary about the history of asbestos in the USA and how Russia is currently the world’s main producer of asbestos. And to think I actually wondered a couple of years back why so many of the mouth breathing reichwingers who traipsed into the auto parts store I worked in were…

The CNN piece is a long but important read. Disgusting.

I kind of love that judge.

I am particularly disgusted with the “sure she’s rich but she totally owns this company and came up with everything and works soooo haaaard” crowd. Bull. Shit. She slapped her name on something. That’s it.

This is why we can't get anything fixed in this country. Even stating  basic facts is dismissed as being a hater by cretins who apparently are too stupid to understand concepts like privilege and advantage. 

“With the fervor of an 18th-century French libertine working his was through the manor’s lusty chambermaids”

Update: he won’t be staying there any more. The judge got wind of his bullshit, and is pissed, so he’s being remanded to normal jail. Please enjoy this breakdown by @SpicyFiles (who appears to be a person with a terrifyingly intense obsession with digging up all manner of court filings and plowing through them with…