Mariah’s engagement is great news, because it means there’s still plenty of time to make Dat Billionaire happen.

As glad as I am to see their endorsement, the depressing fact is that as long as the right-wing Taliban controls congress, nothing’s going to change. The best we can hope for is some good Supreme Court appointments, and that’s a long game.

Another thing that would make younger antifeminists’ heads spin is how pervasive sexual harassment and discrimination were. Women, even married women, were not uncommonly fired from their jobs for pregnancy. Hiring discrimination for most positions was straightforward and based on the fact that men needed those jobs…

As the late Prof. Cheerwino used to say, four-wheel drive may help you go; it won’t, however, help you stop.

That one and Galaxy Quest for me. And part of what I loved about him was knowing he probably waded through knee-deep women every day there was never a hint that he was anything but faithful and loving to his age-appropriate long-term regular person partner/wife. Seriously, when does that ever happen with stars? You…

And she’s mastered gender-neutral pronouns! A++++

It’s not uncommon for people to add poorer family members, even teens, onto family plans so they can have phones without having to spend much. And you can often get a fairly fancy phone free or cheap. So yeah, you can be poor and have a decent phone.

I didn’t have them as a kid either, but back then there were pay phones on every corner where I could call if I needed a ride or was late or something happened.

You don’t know me but I’m here to applaud your screen name. TURN TO THE LEFT!

Yeah, that was some Sarah Palin-level gibberish there.

Yes! They all deserve a hall of fame. Another story I love: Bette Nesmith Graham, the divorced mom and secretary who invented white-out in the 50s and eventually sold her company to Gillette for $47 million (in 1979 dollars). And who gave the world Michael Nesmith, but that’s a different story.

We did Santa for a while, then I let my kid know pretty early and used it as a springboard to teach about the concept of metaphor, and the different ways that something can be true—something that fits well with my theology so it worked out OK, I think. I’ve seen some scarring, though. (When I was a kid, I figured out…

Right there with you. And even the talking parts fit with that; she’s being kind of overly analytical about the relationship where he’s treating her like a baby. Further defending Miley: I loved her in A Very Murray Christmas.

That phrase and “Itty Bitty Tittie Committee” will haunt me forevermore.

Never mind, already been said. This sort of nonsense is why I’m still gray.

I’m in my 50s and do this with my dad t00, although we also email and talk fairly often. Works great.

I’m so glad you got to do this - it’s a thing I never could, even if I had an invitation, because I know in my heart that it would end with security pulling me off Tom Colicchio.

I go to a nurse-midwife for my lady parts care, and until I was ALL the way through menopause she reminded me often that it’s actually a fairly high-risk time for pregnancy—women assume they’re infertile or nearly so and get sloppy about birth control, and ovulation is unpredictable. She always made sure I had a…

Elder-brag: Back in the mid-60s I sold them for 50 cents a box. Door to door, zero supervision. But there were no Samoas in those days. Some people say the dinosaurs ate them all.

The brushing-off thing is such an odd and deliberate gesture, I kind of wonder if she did it intentionally, knowing there were cameras on her and it would get giffed and memed all to hell. All respect either way.