I don’t know why you would assume someone discussing marriage wouldn’t be thinking about the legal advantages, especially if her point was that people who say it’s all about the bling are wrong.

While I get that marriage and somebody who wants to go down that road with you are valuable, both emotionally and as a bellwether for the state of the relationship overall, I still lean toward seeing it as a component of a relationship, and not a waypoint in it. If you’re with someone who’s awesome and they aren’t…

Soup, how does it work?

I’ve had to hit up drive-throughs after meat-laden weddings too. Wedding food is just usually not good enough to make you want to eat enough to not be starving by the time the whole wretched affair is over.

Funny how we laugh at white men who pull this shit, like Chet Haze or whatever that white rapper’s name is, but this white woman attempting to impersonate a Black woman is a different story. People want to accept, defend, and empathize with her BECAUSE SHE IS A WHITE WOMAN firstly, and because she is harming and…

Fair point, but then, John McCain seemed like a pretty decent guy until he ran for president, so...

Pinkham’s Law: it’s right up there with gravity.

I had to read it twice, but I think what happened is they didn’t exactly steal it, per se (it’s only theft if you intend to permanently deprive the rightful owner), but took it for a joyride down the block, just to fuck with the delivery driver. Which is still not cool, and not smart when they’re already breaking the…

Especially since the story mentioned that the trivia folks were typically eating $2 tacos (always eat when you binge-drink, kids) and hanging around for five rounds of trivia, which in this case was the entire night. You absolutely should not drive after seven drinks, but seven drinks over the course of an evening…

I don’t know why this comment tickled me so much. Maybe I just like knowing how stuff works. Maybe I like imagining the intricate interconnectedness of everything, from the craftsmen and laborers who install every component of every building, to the caramel-snorting jackasses whose temper tantrums get foiled by them,…

OK but one time I picked up a hitchiker who was carrying soup and by the time I dropped him off the soup had mysteriously vanished. Explain that!

MAYBE THEY WERE DRIVING OFF TO RESCUE SOME KITTENS AND NOW THOSE KITTENS ARE DEAD DID YOU EVER THINK ABOUT THAT HUH???!!!1!!??/?

Well, like most stories about bears in the media, there were several important parts left out. The main one being that those scientists were not actual bears.

I need this on a T-shirt or coffee cup or something.

Yeah, a lot of jails and detention centers perform chest x-rays on incoming detainees to check for TB.

I don’t even like children the other 364 days of the year and I would give you guys ALL MY CANDY.

Amen to that.

I feel all of that. But also, I want to be the one to propose. And I’m not gonna do it until he starts pulling his weight with the housework. ;)

Yeah, you really don’t know someone after only two months. You might like what you see so far, and if you’re very lucky, you might never see anything that causes you to re-evaluate that stance. But deciding to marry someone you’ve known two months is like deciding you’re going to buy a car knowing only that it’s red,…

Yeah, I’m getting pretty tired of the smug “if you really loved him you’d value the relationship more than a piece of jewelry” attitude. There’s emotional blackmail, and then there’s just being honest about what you want and need so the other person can make an informed decision.