The media lie

Nobody owes you a woman.

Thanx to theferrett

Folk Tales

An anthropologist with the charming name of Hortense Powdermaker turned the condescending eye of her profession on the sort of savage, primitive tribe that deserved it. The book was called Hollywood, the Dream Factory. Her subjects retain that sort of charming simplicity; for instance, they believe that no movie centered around Asian-American women could possibly succeed. But The Joy Luck Club did.

Thanx to Metafilter

Derp misspelled

In a little over a year, the British Tories have twice taken careful aim at their own foot with elections they didn’t need to call and twice scored bull’s eyes. Now they have to align with a hate group called DUP, which could be mistaken for a satirical extension of their own most deplorable qualities. As Charles Pierce says, “It's not just us.”

ETA: And an alleged response from Her Majesty

Body autonomy

Against Mandatory Modesty

Simon says

Crime expert discusses Dolt45.