I think the politicians here are absolutely in a no-win situation. But I respect those of them who’ve made statements, and am glad that it’s getting media attention. Sometimes backlash builds slowly but it never happens if the information isn’t public.

It’s not even a band-aid! It’s not a cure, but let’s call it say... a splint? There have been multiple test programs that show that providing homeless people with steady, safe, personal housing allows a very high number of them to get back into work and stability. (Try finding a job when you haven’t slept in days and…

This poor girl. What a monstrous thing to have all these strangers thinking they have claim to your tragedy. I’m just thinking of times in the past where something awful happened and someone tangentially involved turned it into their own story, and how hurtful that was. I can’t imagine having that be *an entire…

I prefer to see women doctors in general, but the only doctor who’s made me cry was a woman after she gave me a sonogram to check out the possibility of a growth. I was maybe 20 years old and she acted like she was tuning up a car or something while jabbing this thing into my body; no kindness or bedside manner at…

I’ve seen basically none of her movies, but Kristen Stewart’s celebrity persona is amazing. I wish I had enough power in my life to be like “I did my job, I did it well, so leave it” and it makes me happy to see her doing that.

I’m not from the UK but I’ve lived abroad and the woman in this interview comes across as a pretty universal type of clueless expat. They make their local friends and then extrapolate that to the entire country.

I used to work in a bookstore and one day we had a woman come in who had just taken on guardianship of her niece after the parents died in a car accident. She wanted a YA book for her niece but nothing that included dead parents. I tried to find one but couldn’t so I called in backup. We had a YA expert on staff and…

Not being snotty here, genuine question. I’ve always kind of seen that Excel stuff (formula to graph to presentation) as a normal office-based job skill so I’m wondering if I should play that up when job hunting? I never thought to mention it but if it’s something people don’t know how to do maybe I should?

It broke my heart hearing her repeat a couple times in that one video that she’s trying to “make her mama proud”. Like of course you are sweetie, and that woman is exploiting you because she knows that.

That’s fair. I used to run to the other side of my duplex (where the laundry machines are) in bare feet, since it’s barely 10 feet away and I’m lazy. Thankfully nothing disastrous but I did get a foot wart so apparently there’s a strain of HPV on my front walk. Different city, less gross, but ewww.

I ran through an Atlanta parking lot last year barefoot because I didn’t want to kill my shoes during what felt like a monsoon.

Yeah, I’ve heard that story. Ever since Jr’s divorce announcement I’ve wondered if he started crossing lines with his kids. The cheating thing seems like a stretch to me given how long she’s known about it.

Oh no why? I remember loving Lunar Park but that was a million years ago and I don’t really know much about him other than finding Less Than Zero and American Psycho to be meh at best.

Puppy blues! I didn’t know that this was a thing common enough to have a term. I’ve had mine for a little over a year, and the first few weeks after adoption I had that feeling hard. Glad to know that it’s not just me. These days though there are still headaches but so much more joy than stress.

They would rotate in and out, but the same kids would be around for a few months at a time. I’d give them leftovers or just chat with them while waiting for friends or the bus or whatever. I’m not championing it, but I understand why coming from a rough home situation it would feel good. They’re kind of a tribe with a…

I’ve met a lot of these kids; they tend to congregate in a neighborhood I used to live in and they’re pretty ubiquitous all up and down the west coast. Most of them have a family backstory that explains why it’s so appealing to them to find this community. It wasn’t a nice thing to do to his parents, but if his dad…

“The Day the Music Died” is about the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper. It wasn’t art criticism.

I don’t go in for celebrity crushes generally, but Seth Meyers is mine. Even my boyfriend is like “You have such a great relationship with Seth.”

Grindr profiles are largely anonymous as they appear to other users. Aggregating that data that is only available on the backend makes it more sensitive.

I believe it! Becoming a nun used to be pretty much the only way for a woman to choose an intellectual life with no childbearing involved. I can see the appeal.