This reminds me of restaurant owners and/or other small biz people who fight against minimum wage increases on the grounds that they couldn’t possibly pay more or else they’d go out of business.

There’s a scene at the very end of League of Their Own that always troubled me a little: When the ladies are all Old and looking around their wing at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Dottie runs into grown-up Stilwell there’s this exchange:

I second what others have said elsewhere: That romantic comedies sort of don’t ‘work’ anymore because, culturally, we’ve rendered 2 key elements of them ‘obsolete’ (so to speak): Implicit fear of sexual betrayal and, relatedly, saving sex for marriage/monogamy. Yeah, I know there was plenty of pre-marital sex in…

Fantastic Boys and Where to Find Them

I am proud to say I don’t know the IQ of anyone I personally know, including myself. 

Yes. I was also put in a ‘gifted’ classroom for a while. The kids in there were fucking MESSES. I think when I changed schools (from elementary to middle) I begged my parents NOT to even mention that I’d been in ‘gifted’, they agreed, so I was just in a normal classroom and my life GREATLY improved.

Well there is sort of use for it: People who score moderately high on IQ do indeed tend to do better in life. Doctors, lawyers, that sort of thing.

It’s like others have said: Antonin Scalia would probably have been in Ravenclaw.

In a pinch, get yourself a Hellraiser mask. That’ll take care of it.

Nevermind Gawker and Deadspin: I miss Fleshbot. (Yes, I know it still exists, it’s just no longer part of the Grand Ecosystem...)

The Bachelor/Bachelorette deserves credit for helping to get people re-acquainted with the concept of arranged marriage.  

you always want to see quality studios and games thrive

And when they’re done with all of this work, they’ll have a video game where you can wander around and shoot zombies with guns.

Yeah, I agree: They are pretty fucking insufferable.

In Europe I think it’s just called ‘nationalism’.

Would modern leftism even exist without white people blaming other white people for being white?

Not today, Santa.

This virus fear at least lets me indulge in my favorite role-play: The Public Health Handjob. “No honey don’t stop: The doctors are saying that we need to wash *every* part of each other *every* day. After this, I’ll make sure you are clean too. Especially those dirty boobs of yours...”

I’m old enough to remember that Bad Kids in middle school used to smoke on the bus. Bus driver would pull over, demand that whoever was doing it stop and yet somehow they kept on doing it, totally hidden. I think the Stink WAS the appeal to them. 

Hear me out here: It just might be that conservatives have a somewhat distorted notion of what a liberal is and what they believe in.