It definitely worth doing your research and trying to find an ethical place. It would be a shame for Jharma and women like her to lose business because potential patrons are afraid they might be subsidizing slave labor.

The state of BSA makes me so sad. I had such a wonderful experience as a Girl Scout growing up and I’m sad that my son won’t have the same opportunities. I live in a super progressive area and I’m sure our local troops accept GBT people but I couldn’t stomach paying dues.

This is actually a thing that intrigues/terrifies me. My husband and I each have things like this that the other one does that drives us crazy (I’m getting better at the cabinet doors, I swear!). But they don’t bother me that much. Like, I don’t think about them outside of the times they are actually happening. It…

Ooh, what’s the shop? I want to do something like this for niece’s birthday.

I’m so glad somebody else fixated on that!

That Silver Spring didn’t get arrested and the head of CPS ended up publicly apologizing to them. I don’t see that happening here.

I can’t believe he just observed 2 kids left alone and decided to hold back and wait to see if someone showed up to arrest?

This was her third baby. If she's had two uneventful vsginal births then this probably an extremely low risk pregnancy.

I was thinking the same thing. I lived near the Wheaton Mall for 5 years and never heard this story.

And people pray on that. Molly Bish’s parents came and spoke at my high school. She’d been gone for over 2 years (they found her remains a few months laters). They were clearly so helpful and they were shilling some expensive program that was supposed to help your parents find you if you went missing. I walked away so…

I can understand the Obama Administration not wanting to set a precedent where public opinion or pending lawsuits mean that a subsequent administration can revoke the medal. I do think he’s underestimating how extenuating these circumstances are.

He’s worse than Bush in many ways. At least when it comes to spying on and harassing Americans. I think Republicans/Tea Partiers have been so obstructionist and combative that it makes Democrats feel like you can’t offer any nuanced criticism.

Considering Brown has been repeatedly jailed for failing to pay child support, I don’t think he’s putting in the parenting hours you’re picturing.

I’ve been posting under this name since I got locked of my old name after the hack in 2010. Nothing I’ve ever tried has gotten me un-greyed. It’s a very arbitrary process.

I know you got a million recommendations last night but I want to recommend the Merchant House Museum. It’s fairly small so it’s best to do if you’re already doing something downtown. It’s the oldest house museum in NYC and it’s a really interesting window into how neighborhoods and real estate developed in the 19th…

That’s basically where the Boston ‘burbs are right now. When my mom sold her house in the same area in 2007 it was on the market for 5 months. It’s scary how quickly the market can vacillate back and forth.

My cousins just sold their house (outside Boston) and they had seven offers. Several came with cover letters. They sold there house to the highest bidder.

It may be that she simply wasn’t up to it. A mother of a newborn is still extremely hormonal. When I was two months postpartum I could have attended something silly like a sporting event but I would have been a hysterical, blithering mess at a memorial service. All those hormones heightened my emotional reactions to…

So you’re upset that people say snotty things about only having one child but you have no problem saying snotty things to people who want more than one kid? Nice.

According to Wikipedia, she worked part-time for Jigsaw for 18 months after college and then “worked” for her parent’s company. She’s good at being a princess (and that’s a skill set I don’t have) but she’s never had job where she was expected to work 40 hours a week.