Ah yes, the EP's week in Strasbourg, before they return to Brussels for the other three weeks of the month. It's a great idea until some pathetic staffer has to carry their trunks full of crap on the train the whole way.
I saw a big TV interview with Rachida Dati in France, designed to clear up all the gossip about her. It really was all kinds of wonderful. She was incredibly inspiring and I wasn't expecting it. Did anyone see it?
Elyse Umemoto was the only Miss America contestant I cared about-- she has always been open about her advocacy for marriage equality, as she has, as she put it, "a mom and a stepfather and a dad and a stepfather."
And to my deep embarrassment, I loved her on the Miss America reality show, where she was one of the winners.
@Mireillepa the Rappa: Body shame runs very, very deep in a great number of people, women especially and ESPECIALLY about places that do not usually see the light of day.
@Mireillepa the Rappa: I suspect a lot of women don't like to acknowledge to their doctors that they have sex lives, because they assume vaginal dryness is only a problem if you're having sex. I didn't know how lucky I was to have a sex-positive gyno until years later.
"We were horny and we wanted to fuck," Welsch explained.
Oh, well, that makes sense then. I know whenever my boyfriend and I feel like having sex, we do it no matter who's around.
No, wait, that's what we would do if we were whackos. Sir and Madam, those are your children, and I imagine that, were he still alive, Dr. Freud would have some interesting conversations with them in 15-20 years.
@baraqiel: Seriously, I've been known to break into wild sex during family dinners, grocery store visits, and that one time I was at the Supreme Court. I was horny, what's the problem?
@GoodBadNotEvil: And did you catch the age of the kids? A four-year-old and a 22-month-old. Bitch, those kids can see you, and they're old enough to notice that something *ahem* is going on.
Reminds me of working at a crisis nursery with kids who knew how to make Barbie and Ken do filthy things to each other. "Okay, that's enough playing with dolls! Who want to go blow bubbles?"
So his wife is going? Are they that hard-up for money, or just fame-whores? God, those poor daughters. I have a feeling both Mom and Dad are going to end up in jail eventually.
@lalaland13: I vote for fame-whores. The trial judge is allowing him to tap his 2.3 million dollar campaign fund for his legal defense, and will be able to afford a decent defense. I find it hard to believe that they didn't save anything in the six years they were pulling in bribes from everyone.
Hell, they can tap their children's accounts. Blago tried to explain that it is normal to him that someone (who later was hired by the State) gave his daughter $3000 for her First Communion. Not a typo--$3-0-0-0. So hopefully their daughters have lots of money stashed away in their piggy banks.
Danica Wallace and Jeremy Welsh--you leave me speechless you fuckwads.
Per stick figures and gender: I have a bigger problem with men's rooms not having baby changing stations. This pretty much ensures that mommy has to change every dirty diaper that happens in public. Equal distribution of labor is difficult when this very easy accomodation is not provided.
@Penny: I don't have kids either, but I will in the near future and that aspect will really, really suck. Though, to the credit of some places, I am noticing a lot more "family" bathrooms, where mommys AND daddys are welcome.
@LaComtesse: Oh my god I HATE when only the women's bathroom has a changing station! This is a major pet peeve of mine, and I am happily child-free (maybe I'd consider having a child if society didn't expect/force me to care for it 100% of the fucking time...)
@blueberrypancake: To each her own, certainly, but you can usually tell society to suck it if you have a feminist partner to ensure you AREN'T the one doing all the parenting...
@MarissaExplainsItAll: Dude, what is it about pets? We have a dog and two cats and I am ALWAYS weirded out when they are around, because they just stare....obviously.
@MarissaExplainsItAll: Dogs can be weird. If they think that you are being attacked or that you are playing a game, they can jump on you at very inopportune moments. I hear. *cough cough*
Wow on that couple having sex. Has anyone been caught doing the nasty in a car? My BF and pulled onto a side road when we were in Sonoma County once, apparently it was someone's road leading up to their home and they pulled up behind us, with kids, in a VOLVO. I was mortified.
@Penny: My husband and I were once having sex in the woods behind my parents house, near the river. As we were going at it, some kayakers paddled on by, mouths agape. That was pretty dreadful.
@Penny: I was once skinny dipping with friends in a wonderful secret hot spring in the middle of nowhere. We were frisking around and having a great time when we saw what looked like a herd of about a dozen people standing on the almost invisible trail. Tourists, of course. An entire Mormon family, complete with Gramps and Gran.
@Penny: I was caught going down on my boyfriend in a public restroom at our local park...a policeman was locking up for the night & he took us back to my parents' houes because he didn't believe I was over the age of 18 (I was). Absolutely mortifying...
@Penny: I've never done it in a car, but all the stories I've ever heard about it make it seem really uncomfortable. Not really made for tall people...
@Penny: Once my high school bf and I were making out in the car on a country lane when a bright light appeared in the window. We decided it had to be aliens, because the more rational explanation was too embarrassing.
@LaComtesse: My hairdresser was getting it on with her boyfriend in his parked car near a lake. Things got really steamy and the car with them inside went into the lake.
Luckily nothing happened to them, but they were mortified when the rescue service showed up and they had to explain the accident.
I understand that people complain it sets a precedent for other women in that country, who have very good maternal benefits, but I think serving in government is different than most other jobs. It's not like the country goes on hold while she takes time off.
I don't know enough about what she was or was not doing to say whether she was doing a good job but the whole thing just seems off.
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And to my deep embarrassment, I loved her on the Miss America reality show, where she was one of the winners.
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Oh, well, that makes sense then. I know whenever my boyfriend and I feel like having sex, we do it no matter who's around.
No, wait, that's what we would do if we were whackos. Sir and Madam, those are your children, and I imagine that, were he still alive, Dr. Freud would have some interesting conversations with them in 15-20 years.
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Reminds me of working at a crisis nursery with kids who knew how to make Barbie and Ken do filthy things to each other. "Okay, that's enough playing with dolls! Who want to go blow bubbles?"
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Hell, they can tap their children's accounts. Blago tried to explain that it is normal to him that someone (who later was hired by the State) gave his daughter $3000 for her First Communion. Not a typo--$3-0-0-0. So hopefully their daughters have lots of money stashed away in their piggy banks.
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Per stick figures and gender: I have a bigger problem with men's rooms not having baby changing stations. This pretty much ensures that mommy has to change every dirty diaper that happens in public. Equal distribution of labor is difficult when this very easy accomodation is not provided.
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I never got caught, but just thinking about sex in a car brings back all sorts of high school memories.
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They simply moved the car.
Same cop caught them AGAIN!
I still don't know how they got out of that one.
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Luckily nothing happened to them, but they were mortified when the rescue service showed up and they had to explain the accident.
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I don't know enough about what she was or was not doing to say whether she was doing a good job but the whole thing just seems off.