While I am always suspicious of awesome new profitable innovations involving women's bodies that are PROBLEM FREE, and then develop problems in use that the manufacturer denies ...

Nah, she's probably on a calorie restricted diet already, because EW, FAT, and that'll stunt her growth.

YES. On the one hand, we get mocked if we study humanities and want to work in a non-profit and volunteer, and told we're unemployable and airy-fairy and can't grow up and take responsibility and sometimes being an adult means doing a job you don't like to get experience and pay the bills.

This is why I think it'll go long: because (the parenting analogy is a good one) if you say "I will have none of this" the first time there is a tantrum, it'll burn out quickly. If you reward the first 18 tantrums and are determined not to give in the 19th time, you're in for a very long period of screaming and…

Very, very good point.

This represents the degree to which you have been coopted by the hegemonistic occidentalism in which consumption furthers the narrative of alterity, rather than accepting the intersubjective reality from precultural paradigms of digestive synthesis.

Can the SoState do that? I really have no idea what's going to happen now. I was alive during the last shutdown, but wasn't really paying attention to what it was actually like.

Sorry, I meant to say "I'm betting on long and nasty and sweaty and oh, Thor, do that thing again!"

I dunno, there's a point at which there are very serious economic consequences, and my worry is this giant game of chicken will go so wrong it might end up in that territory. I have this secret fear that if it goes on too long it'll never end and we'll all be living in Thunderdome etc.

I dunno, there's a point at which there are very serious economic consequences, and my worry is this giant game of chicken will go so wrong it might end up in that territory. I have this secret fear that if it goes on too long it'll never end and we'll all be living in Thunderdome etc.

I was kind of hoping for that. Then I thought "OMG, Jodie Foster and Portia De Rossi?" And had to check to make sure that they weren't split up, which thank goodness they're not. I'd be irrationally sad if they were.

I was kind of hoping for that. Then I thought "OMG, Jodie Foster and Portia De Rossi?" And had to check to make sure that they weren't split up, which thank goodness they're not. I'd be irrationally sad if they were.

But he was the king of awkward exposition!

Dammit. I'm in DC next week, had two days off and planned to go the Smithsonian for the FIRST TIME. Because this is all about me.

Mine loves snuggling through sweatpants too! Canadian. Same diff.

I am literally tearing up just thinking of that, thank you.

Exactly.

Exactly.

Somehow, telling people that your child is in "rehab" is better than saying "psychiatric hospital."

Yes. She went to law school and become a judge, for sure. (Possibly still having a fling with him, sure. But not becoming a Catskills housewife and Mrs. Johnny Castle.)