I totally agree. I have literally never had a valentine's day be about me since high school. Anytime I had a boyfriend as an adult, we have done either nothing, or sat at home and watched TV while drinking wine and I wore a pink sweater. I am willing to put money on the fact that my boyfriend will not do…

That makes sense that. Understanding is something you can get fairly good at from foreign language classes, replying is much more of an immersion thing.

She seemed like she was Russian-American, and I think her name is Russian.

I am kind of surprised that Tolokonnikova didn't speak English since she is a Canadian resident (through her husband), but it seemed like she at least understood some of what Colbert was saying before the translator was able to translate. I loved that they were on the show, but there was something about the interview,…

I thought she was the translator, but I am probably wrong about that. I think she's probably working at her computer programmer job like she was before.

Because society provides nothing of benefit for you. Social contract is not = slavery. It's more like the at-will contract you have with your employer. You can do the shit they ask you to do, get out of bed in the mornings, provide a product. In return you get money. That is the contract. You don't want to take the…

Hey, we don't know Nicole's original name. It could have been Dwayne.

I wish I could just a filter on my facebook for some people. I like them and I don't want to unfriend them, but I just want like half their posts to stop showing up in my feed.

I dated a guy from Maine for a while. I called him my Maine Squeeze.

awww Portland's kind of cool.

Hopefully the confusion stemming from the fact that her last name is Maines and she lives in Maine is going to be the worst thing that follows her from now on.

I wouldn't forgive Thurmond or Wallace either. They were unrelenting until the last possible acceptable second, and then some. Thurmond was human scum, and Byrd had every opportunity to be another Thurmond. He was extremely popular in West Virginia, that was unlikely to change. I believe in rehabilitation over…

So people's one time stances on things should forever on their permanent record of the soul? No amount of repentance will right a wrong? I think it's almost worth more when someone truly realizes their wrong and works to correct it. To go from being an active KKK member to a prominent civil rights activist (the kind…

Feel free not to comment on this, but I was wondering, what are your thoughts on Robert Byrd? In the beginning of his career he was like crazy racist, a grand dragon-wizard-dungeon master whatever in the KKK, voted against civil rights legislation. Then he completely repented, publicly apologized, and did a lot of…

Totally. I had some family friends growing up who refused to travel to Germany, buy German cars, basically participate in anything that came out of Germany or was German related because of the holocaust. I'm Jewish, and I lived in Germany, studied German, and am really into German film and art. When I lived in Germany…

lolz penis of roses.

awww sads.

I never understood why he was wearing a t-shirt in the pictures of him overweight. Is it because of chaffing or something?

Yeah, it is sad. My boyfriend called me up after the State of the Union and was all like "I want maternity leave too! Why isn't mandated parental leave for all parents a thing already!" I think it mostly comes down to "corporations are people, and corpopeoples get to make decisions for everyone else and if they don't…

No, slaves didn't have an option to leave. You do. LEAVE. Go live in the woods and stop taking advantage of the government amenities you happen to like. You sign the social contract by driving on public roads, eating food that someone has approved for safe consumption, having a car that fits safety standards, and…