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Anyone who looks at that picture and thinks that the boys are thinking about anything other than bewbs has clearly never met a teenage boy before. Some of them might be thinking about her legs ... ? Also ass, but as we've been warned, that will make men gay. The more I think about that, the more co...

Huh, I don't think I've heard that song before; the riff does not ring a bell. But Love/Hate is another band I only know of due to that soundtrack (which I never would've bought had I known the "Hands on Me" song from the movie was NOT on it).

We've had many discussions about antivaxxers in various places, but I don't think we have a dedicated thread about those idiots. Here's a lengthy but interesting article in today's Slate taking a deeper look at antivaxxer motivations (and also mentioning, in its opening paragraph, that a measles out...

It is the law: if you are going to have a complete shoe blowout, with a large piece of the sole suddenly separating itself from the rest of the shoe, this WILL happen as soon as you're officially too far from home to turn back and put new shoes on.

ICE is force-feeding detainees who went on hunger strikes.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/ ... ke-1138316

To be fair, if you never went on Twitter before and then suddenly you did, that DOES count as "unusual behavior" for you.

Mo wrote: ↑

30 Jan 2019, 06:56

Heap big woman, you made a gay boy out of me

Nope, still no good.

Mmm, I dunno. This is Freddie Mercury we're talking about, here.

It is no overstatement to say that the Supreme Court will determine the future of Roe in a matter of days. (TW: Slate) Within one week, the Supreme Court will decide whether to block a Louisiana law designed to shutter the state’s abortion clinics through draconian regulations. If the court refuses...

Here's something I found mildly amusing in a "how things change" kind of way: I recently read Black Fire , a Star Trek TOS novel. (I do read lots of TOS and TNG novels, which I consider kind of the intellectual equivalent of potato chips -- no nutritional value, definitely don't treat them like a st...

I actually caught a glimpse of Donald Trump once in the mid-90s, when he still ran his Atlantic City casinos and a friend and I stayed at one for a night -- IIRC, it was the Taj Mahal. It was one of those spontaneous impulse things you do when you're still in college or just graduated, have no real ...

Wine tasting analysis here. There's a difference between bitter and sour. Oh, definitely. I should've specified -- when I compared grapefruit's lack of "bitter, with potential" to lemon's potential -- I should've said "sour with potential." Because, while of course I don't like eating straight lemo...

Started the same convo on Facebook, and the state v. federal distinction was brought up, but also there was this: ME: Wait a minute: I just checked A1S8 of the constitution, which says in part that "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts...

Semi-related and not worth starting a new thread over IMO: there's is talk of Warren's proposed "wealth tax" on super-high fortunes, and pretty much everything I've seen has said this is (or would be declared) unconstitutional. But here is a question I've not seen answered or even addressed: why wou...

Serious question: I know there some sort of genetic thing which determines whether you like cilantro -- some people say it's delicious, others say it tastes like soap, and I gather you can tell who's who just by looking at a certain snippet of their DNA. Is there something similar with grapefruit? B...

The Mooch is a Harsh Mistress

Warren wrote: ↑

26 Jan 2019, 11:15

Grapefruit was the best until now.

I just don't know what to say to that, Jadawarren.

Kevin Williamson has gone off the rails since he got fired by the Atlantic. A little while ago, he said he loved the laws of Switzerland and thought it was the best governed country in the world. Now he compares Warren’s wealth tax* to the liquidation of kulaks. Warren would've been far less scary ...

Ugh, Shakespeare in Love was/is a very pretty movie IMO (I actually spent a whopping 50 cents to buy the DVD at a library sale a couple months ago), but the glaring anachronisms in what was supposedly a prestige period piece kept yanking me out of the story and into paroxysms of Comic Book Guy-style...

Oh, fuck, PLEASE let the Dem nominee for 2020 NOT be Kamala Harris. Ugh.

It is REALLY FUCKING NAUSEATING, seeing TSA workers held up as examples of noble selfless public servants being harmed by the fedgov shutdown.

JD, do you ever read the "Choosing Beggars" subreddit? LOTS of people like that in there.

When I had to shovel -- especially the three-foot Loudoun snowfall I dealt with myself because Jeff was in South Carolina at the time -- since I don't have a hell of a lot of upper-body strength I only made use of about a quarter of my snow shovel's capacity each time: instead of digging the entire ...

Man, reading these winter-weather complaints REALLY has me feeling left out, since I moved to Atlanta. When people are talking about snowfalls measured in feet, somehow "The frost on my car was almost thick enough to be opaque this morning" loses what little frisson it had.

I don't really see what the problem is. She can't afford two residences before the first paycheck arrives but has a good network so she's fine. The problem is that, when a reporter asked her why she didn't immediately move to DC after winning the election, she mentioned the expense as a reason, and...

I don't think empathy on that scale is a thing, jen. The sneers I've seen basically boil down to "She should be able to handle this with no difficulty," though whether the critics think every 29-year-old should be able to pull this off, or only the ones who successfully ran for Congress, will somet...