I always understood it not to be literally "hit me" as in "assault me." You know, like you can say "hit me" to a dealer, meaning you want another card. Or "give me another hit of that" when you want someone to pour you another drink.

Yes.

... who is Samantha Brick.

Thank you very much.

Happy mother of several, here, and that bugged me too. Lots of people get their shit together entirely independently of having children. And plenty of people manage never to grow up despite having children. This seems like one of those "me myself and I" pieces that manages to be offensive to everyone who isn't exactly…

Exactly. How silly.

Thank you so much, I really appreciate it. Google uncurated can be a deluge of information that's hard to process, so recommendations from someone who knows the field are still the ne plus ultra for me. Thanks.

This interests me a lot, and I have some background in public policy but in very different areas than urban planning or economic issues at that level. Can you suggest some terms to put into Google Scholar that will get me articles about this, that won't be totally over my head?

I was determined not to pick the Jennifer or Jessica or Matthew or David of my kids' generation, because I never had a class with only one of those, and once had three Jennifers and four Davids. Two of the names, we picked right, but the third, there was a boom right after.

I had no idea Jennifer was such a Godzilla of baby names, stamping out all competition for years straight.

Out of curiosity, which ethnicity? The Katies I know are Anglo-Scots.

Hell, that's clearly the discount given they were sleeping together. For non-connubial button sewing, it starts at $40 a button.

Forget "a class you can take on this stuff." There's YouTube! We learned how to fold a fitted sheet neatly from there. Also, the trick of storing both sheets and one pillow case inside the second pillow case, so you don't need to rummage to find a complete set.

I know some whom I trust and respect a great deal, but kind of, yeah.

and keeping their patients on some mix of three different medications, such as statins to control cholesterol.

If I recall correctly, even the researchers were a bit traumatized by how quickly people morphed into monsters in those circumstances. Very scary stuff, that research.

That's a very good point; a perfectly decent person might become creepy in previously unmanifested ways, upon being given that much power with that little accountability. But quite apart from that, the demand in the past decade for public (and private) sector employees who wield weapons and power - not just the…

The problem with a society that wants to have so many people armed and in positions of authority is that you start running out of decent people to so empower.

I dunno about that last point; how long do you give it until Miley (unironically) gives herself a 'bout it, gangsta name?

Except names were typically passed TO men as carriers of them; women were auxiliaries to whichever tribe/clan/family claimed them, which was their father, and then their husband, for the most part, which is why their names were automatically changed for so long.