democratic party takes one tiny step away from being the party of sour-faced meddling pearl-clutchers

(I can say that because even though I vote Democrat 99% of the time, I’m actually a registered member of the Green Party!)
The Dems have just made a PDF of the party’s official platform available, and it appears they’ve finally dropped the “safe, legal, and rare” language regarding abortion. The section on choice now reads [...]

i always wanted to be a ronson: harper’s bazaar makes analogy that would have been edgy in 2001 with another weird let’s-pretend photo shoot

Are the editors at Harper’s Bazaar all huffing compressed gas duster? First they foist the horror show of Tyra pretending to be Michelle Obama on us; now they’re trying to make us care about the Ronson siblings by comparing them to the Tenenbaum kids. No, seriously.
The parallel between the Ronsons and the quirky prodigies, Chas, [...]

oh look, it’s another boring democrat sex scandal

Oh, John. Why did you have to seem so perfect, with your boyish good looks, your charm, your concern about poverty? I mean, poverty? That’s adorable!
Once again, if there’s anything the GOP beats us libruls at, it’s sex scandals. No one had sex in a public bathroom; Rielle Hunter wasn’t a prostitute; and so far [...]