Yeah... I’m not so sure about that part either. I may still run with it and simply get a small waterproof camping bag to fold them away in my backpack so that there’s no grossness. Check out this company, they cost a fraction of Thinx and apparently ship to the US (they’re the ones I’ve been using): http://www.lavosper…

So according to the website the Indian company I’ve been buying from ships to the US? You could pay like a fifth of what Thinx costs:

I’ve literally never heard of this guy. As far as I’m concerned, he should thank Petersen for raising his profile :D

What are your favourite recyclable period products?

Is there a fair trade version of gummy bears? Haribo is investigating reports of slavery in its production line.

My last bit of capacity to be surprised (although I am in academia and have experienced harassment from people who teach ethics) was when allegations of harassment from world renowned ethics professor at Yale finally leaked out (by a Jezebel writer, no less!) https://www.buzzfeed.com/katiejmbaker/yale-ethics-professor?…

I didn’t know there were other flavours to whoopie pies! Whoopie!!! :D

I don’t think you’re projecting, especially with books like Northanger Abbey. Her juvenilia like “Love and Freindship” (sic) are a gleeful exercise in harpooning the romance genre, but I’m glad she got more subtle with age because it keeps ya guessing.

That’s interesting, I guess he thought only his brand of domestic violence was “justified”.

Ummm... How about we NOT remember Sean Connery with his incredibly casual take on his domestic violence?

There were also anti-Federalist papers... shouldn’t she be an anti-Federalist?

Whoa! I forgot about those! I used to own some but the wide leggings don’t work well on an already short-legged person. I hopped on the yoga leggings-as-pants some time ago and never looked back.

I found my way out of that fog, with education, and support, and seeing how much more compassionate “liberal” views were to literally goddamn everybody. It might have helped that I had to separate from my tight knit community to go to school hours away. I don’t know about kids that never leave their community of…

I will let you know the next time we go! Right now I’m in New Delhi, so a little ways away ;)

Shhhhhhh.... Nordik is already too crowded!! My friend and I have been going there for a decade and I’m so regretful it’s becoming Known.

Like Colbert says, there’s nothing about what she said that’s wrong. She strikes me as an intelligent, artistic person who faced down shit and now has zero fucks to give for appearances. She may also be on drugs, but who hasn’t?

I haven’t had such a thorough giggle in a long time. Thanks Bobby!

I’m sorry to hear of the abuse your dad suffered (my dad also had an abusive father but Irish extraction). It does seem a very honest, non-romanticized account of Italian neighbourhoods in the 50s and 60s.

That’s what I love! The faithful depiction of the mixed feelings in immediate experience and the growth over time. She captured the introspection of learning from life.

I finally got around to reading the Neapolitan novels over the winter holidays. I love her serious, nuanced prose; it’s like having coffee with a mature, crazy-intellectual woman providing a retrospective of her own place within her relationships and world over time. She’s the conversational partner I want in my own…