I m so sorry. I don’t know what your relationship is with your stepdaughter, but I hope that you and your partner have sat her down and let her know that, at the very best, that was a cruel and thoughtless display of poor judgment. And, at the worst, she is shaping up to be an absolutely garbage human being. For your…

Welp. This was WAY different than when I had to tell my parents I was pregnant at 18. I was feeling scared, ashamed and confused and putting any of it on video was the LAST thing from my mind.

Because the rapist, who is a Kentuckian, as am I, and I reside in Tennessee, has paternity rights in Kentucky and Tennessee. I would’ve had to co-parent with my rapist.

Very well put. The way politics has changed in the last couple of decades means the rules are simply not the same as the ones Pelosi has worked (and done very well) by. Pelosi may have meant well, but it doesn’t mean she was right.

“We are not there to be quiet, we are not there to be invisible,” said Omar. “We are there to follow the lead of people like Congressman John Lewis and make good trouble.” #goodtrouble 

I like it because it looks like Cal’s colors.

You’re spot on with saying that Pelosi’s advice to slow down was misguided.  These people were elected because they were outspoken and the electorate was all about someone finally willing to speak truth to power.

Here’s the thing. I think Pelosi was probably being sincere when she advised the incoming class of freshman to “go slow.” I think it’s probably been her experience over the last 25 years that she’s been in Congress that the way you build the trust and consensus necessary to pass actual legislation is by going slow and…

I like her. I’m glad she was on Colbert. I hope she gets re-elected and continues to make ‘good trouble’ in Congress. 

There’s something to be said for a modicum of minimalism in purely pragmatic terms; I mean the mammal in me knows he’s going to have to clean up at some point, so having as little clutter as possible lets one calculate the logistics of sweeping and mopping and dusting more efficiently.

In case you were wondering whether tacky minimalism was possible  

It’s been six years since I bought my condo, and I still haven’t hung a single thing on the wall. I thought I was just lazy/indecisive, but now I’m going to chalk it up to my having a “consistent aesthetic.”

This is the opposite of interior design; it is the ABSENCE of interior design.

Also, her outfit is cute.

But, at least two of the public schools, UCLA and UC-Irvine, are better than USC. Hell, UC-Santa Barba is likely better, too.

That has been my reaction to this story as well. It’s a good school but I was surprised at how coveted it was for parents. But if you are rich and can’t imagine leaving southern California I guess it’s the only game in town. Seems like there’s a real market opportunity for a university to build a campus for rich…

I’m baffled that USC is ~such~ a feather in a parent’s cap. Yeah, it’s a good school but am I undervaluing it?

And of course, she may have had a threesome with James Dean and Paul Newman. I’m not as convinced as some people that it actually happened, but I want to believe it did so badly because hot damn.

Eartha Kitt wasa stone cold bad ass.