I hear you, i loved her character, but each time she was faced with a choice to play by the rules or use extortion to get her way, you know which one she chose. The whole Georgetown letter situation was what first soured me on her, but then when she clearly knew that Adriana was not OK and didn’t press it, that was…

Yup. I just said this elsewhere, but Charmagne Bucco was the lame bitch who was right. Not Carmela by a long shot.

YES. I always thought she was the most correct character in MSCL. She even got handcuffs for their weekend!

I am very, very late to this party but I say Charmagne Bucco>Carmela Soprano times a bazillion in terms of lame bitches who were vindicated. Charmagne was totally correct all along about the damage Tony S did to everyone around him, while Carmela had a very, very movable moral line that allowed for the murder of her…

You missed the point. I didn’t say the Democratic party was putting ideology first. I said the leftist faction that is publicly insisting on ideological purity is hurting the Democratic party’s chances to win in districts where most voters are unwilling to support so called “liberal” candidates. It is, as another…

I know you’re being facetious here, but if you read the comments on Frank Bruni’s NYT column about this, there’s a whole mess of “he’s anti-choice” (which isn’t technically true) and “I can’t believe we’re running candidates like this” nonsense. It is enraging to me that these loudmouths are setting the tone.

He is, in other words, the kind of middling Democrat the party’s base is begging it to move away from.

YES. I was just talking to my husband about this earlier. Ideological purity does not work on the left, and repeatedly insisting that our party can’t incorporate people who have different positions on some issues just means we won’t win on any issues. It’s time for pragmatism in the face of sheer evil and autocracy. I…

I re-read these with my kids, and was REALLY angry at the Ingalls parents for pretty much everything they did, including how little they seemed to help Laura as an adult in the horror-filled epilogue The First Four Years.

Do NOT fault yourself. This is how they set it up. They make you feel like, if only you had these intangible skills, you could navigate this minefield of undermining, rumors, offhand suggestions made to co-workers that you just can’t make the grade, direct challenges to the quality or quantity of your work. They make…

Thanks- as a woman I’ve been getting beaten down professionally by white men junior to me for a couple of years now, and these are all things I wish I had known going in.

I say this from experience—take care of yourself during this process and consider lining up some professional help as a sounding board. Even the strongest, smartest, most successful people are beat down by these attacks from “below.” Also look out for people who seem like they are supportive. As soon as you break out…

This is basically a breakdown of my life for the past year. I’m now debating leaving or taking a promotion within my organization, and I just don’t know if I have the emotional energy to deal with the petty-ass men who will make my life hell if I take the promotion. I guess it’s nice to know that it’s not just me that…

I bet that asshole SRO who hid from the gunman gets paid more than this guy.

Came here to say—Dean Winters is never “Even this guy.” He’s a better actor than most of all of the rest of them combined.

At what point will people start voting with their feet and move away from these god-awful, backward states? I know moving isn’t an option for everyone, but holy shit I am happily paying my premium to live in a blue state these days. We should start a relocation program for folks who want to get the hell out.

This makes me so angry. I’ve posted before about my school district’s insistence on starting a school resource officer program, and when I objected strenuously, was told I was putting our children at risk of an event just like this. Now my facebook feed is full of moms wanting to institute extreme safety trainings and…

Toni Morrison, Zadie Smith, Roxanne Gay, JK Rowling, Maya Angelou...all came up with a basic google search of “Women Authors.”

Can’t you find a better person to rep women writers than Margaret Atwood? She’s been consistently awful to women and other people of color, yet still holds this space on Jezebel as the quintessential female author. Or is it just that there are lots of stock photos of her readily available?

Yes! There’s a guy who occasionally runs in my neighborhood while wearing jeans, and each time I want to call the cops on him because I think he’s just burgled something and is running from the owners.