Most medicines are under-tested on women of childbearing age (out of fear they might damage a possible pregnancy).  If Mike Pence was truly worried about the "health of women", he should be equally concerned about literally almost ANY OTHER DRUG. But for some mysterious reason, he's focused on this one. 

I hate to break it to Mr. Schultz, but he did not invent coffee, or cafes, or drive-thru service. He has been staggeringly successful at MONETIZING combimations of those things, but literally everything he has accomplished at Starbucks has been a direct result of the hundreds of thousands of employees, who were the…

This would all be so much cuter and more inspiring if he (and all the other parents with little kids in the building) wasn’t exposing that poor baby to a zillion potential respiratory illnesses being exhaled by a bunch of literal and figural blowhards. PLEASE don’t catch covid/RSV/flu, baby! 

I made this same point a while back (although I have read ‘Dune’), and several people told me that I was wrong because the Bene Gesserit can control their aging. I didn’t care enough to investigate this myself, so I just accepted it as Canon.

This is the battle uniform of a woman fighting a painful, embarrassing, ongoing war to be “edgy”

Yeah, the line between appropriate and inappropriate should not be that hard to figure out. Would you make that comment to an older workplace supervisor with no sense of humor? No? Then don’t say it to a stranger, folks! If the supervisor showed up to work in a shirt with your favorite show on it, yes, you can say “I…

I have stared at it for a while, and while I agree it’s hideous, I think a couple things could have been done to drastically improve it: A) a wearer with ramrod-straight posture (none of that shy head-tilting stuff), B) a wearer with darker coloring, so it wasn’t greige on blonde on ivory, and C) a steamer, so it…

What concerns me is that we are conflating our numbers dropping with some kind of definitive victory against the virus, instead of the vaccine rollout PLUS a seasonal drop due to a wide variety of outside factors. (Like, when the flu numbers drop in the late spring, most of us don’t think: yay, we’ve defeated the…

200% more misanthropic sounds a little low, actually. I feel like this pandemic (and Trump’s election before it) has sped up my mental transformation into my humanity-loathing grandfather by at least thirty years. I am vaccinated, and I will keep wearing my mask, and the only people who will even have the opportunity…

Do you at least store stuff in there? We have a guest room in our house, but we also hardly have any closet space, so if we don’t have immediate need of it, it gets hidden in the guest room. (We emptied it out so a friend could live up there for a few years and it was like a clown car: 10 times more stuff came out of…

My husband does more than his fair share of housework, but I am careful to ALWAYS point out the work I do, because a lot of it is only semi-visible: planning menus, paying bills, handling the shopping (which, particularly during the pandemic, is a massive pain in the ass). I want him to be aware that while his usual ho…

I’m sorry, but ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is the one Austen novel that does not work in a modern setting. There are *elements* that translate just fine to the 21st century, but the minute you transfer this story to a world in which Lizzy can get a self-supporting job you lose something critical. When she turns down Darcy…

I’m only halfway through this documentary, and thus far it makes me extremely uncomfortable. The potential for abuse in the k-pop trainee system seems HUGE to me. These are girls who are isolated from their families, pushed into a pressure-cooker environment of intense competition, and completely at the mercy of a…

Isn’t this the same special lady who submitted a request that taxpayers reimburse her for nearly $50K worth of stolen luggage? (Including $300 moisturizer and an Ivanka Trump necklace, if I recall correctly—so on-brand!) I am constantly impressed by how Trump even FINDS these people. I mean, most of the press…

I am underwhelmed. The whole PLOT hinges upon the idea that the heroine’s marriage is unsettlingly un-sexy. It honestly makes no sense that her husband married her, which leaves you guessing about his motivations until the end of the story. (Might he have a... Nefarious Scheme?) This trailer seems like a far more…

That, to me, is Trump’s “appeal” in a nutshell: he tells people that they should never, EVER, need to sacrifice anything for anyone else. From wearing a mask to considering climate change, he encourages us all to think about our own comfort first, last, and always.

I think what I would struggle with is all those times when Trump says something like: “I haven’t heard about any problems with testing/PPE/ventilators/whatever in weeks!”. Sure, he’s almost certainly lying, but we can’t 100% prove it. (I mean, it’s possible he is so incompetent that his staff has cut him out…

I want to know more about the shirt. I want to *understand* it. I mean... it looks like something a Florida retiree would wear, the better to set off one’s icy blue eye shadow, peach nail polish, and leathery tan.  Is that the vibe she’s going for?  Am I behind the times again?

I own a lot of J.Crew (and even more Madewell), but I’ve been steadily spending less money at both stores, due to both a notable decrease in quality + some INSANE issues with sizing. (If I buy a shirt labelled “boyfriend” style, it damn well better be longer than 22 inches, unless the boyfriend in question wears a…

I totally sympathize, but in our brave new world, roadtrips might be less fun than you’d think anyway. No stopping in restaurants to eat, no browsing cool-looking shops, no using the bathroom. Stopping for gasoline is fraught with danger. I’m just saying: don’t romanticize it.