As long as immigration, health care and taxes are still tied to marriage status, it is bullshit to to judge anyone for making their partnership official to the government. I have serious problems with the way our government privileges married couples, but marrying your partner so you can live in the same country or…

The explanation that cleared it up for me is this: The government cannot coerce you into saving someone else’s life by forcing you to donate an organ (kidney, liver, even blood which is super low risk). This is generally seen as a basic human right, not just a good principle to live and govern by. The government…

Call Pinagree’s office to thank her! I’m sure she’s going to get a lot of pushback so even though I’m in Poliquin’s district I called this morning.

I’ve been trying to find a new carrier all month and failed miserably. The problem is I need data in rural Maine for ~3 weeks/year. Only AT&T and Verizon have service in the area, and all the cheaper companies have crappy roaming. (Google-fi has service but we both have iPhones). If anyone has any experience with…

Alternate kids. 1st one gets mom’s last name, 2nd gets dad’s and so on. That what my parents did and there were zero problems.

I saw him live back when he was just barely starting to get radio play with “Swimming Pools” and I’m so mad at myself that I didn’t appreciate it at the time.

She was stuck in Portland during that ridiculous snow storm/power outage over Christmas two years ago (according to her instagram IIRC).

Anna Kendrick! I would cry if it turns out she’s secretly a bad person.

I’m literally too poor to take the quiz. Why would they put a lower limit on the yearly income?

They checked my bag last weekend but let me keep my contraband candy and water bottle. Maybe my Regal is just extra nice.

Thanks for sharing it! The blog is super interesting and the flood sounded terrifying.

Hey everyone! If you think this research is awesome and want to support it, one of the camps in the Mara just got flooded and they lost a ton of supplies and are trying to crowdfund the replacements. Kay explains it here: http://msuhyenas.blogspot.com/2015/07/disast…

I do this so badly with every argument about how clean/dirty the house is. The background chatter in my mind keeping track of what needs to be done and who did it and is it fair takes up so much of my emotional energy that I can’t have an unloaded conversation about it.

I call my boyfriend's insanely large pile of unmatched socks "Sockpocalypse"

Just wanted to say you are 100% not an asshole. You deserve to be in a relationship with someone you have a romantic attraction to. Staying in a relationship that you don't want to be in isn't good for you or for him. And him being mentally unhealthy sucks, but it doesn't mean you owe it to him to support him for the…

I love that they used Stacy's Mom for that video SO MUCH

Albany!

Someone is going to hate your wedding no matter what you do. If a Friday works for you, your fiance and your families (including your friends who are basically family), then book the Friday. Although you do have to be ok with the idea that people might decline to attend who might have been able to make the Saturday.

I'm not talking about state schools, I'm talking about the private schools that make lists like the Princeton Review's "The Best 388 colleges in America" but wouldn't make anyone's list of top 25-50 schools in the US. I'm hesitating to give actual schools because I'll probably offend someone, but schools my friends…

The thing people seem to forget about top tier schools such as Ivies is that they have huge endowments and therefore have great financial aid. I have fewer loans than many of my friends, even though our families are similarly well off, because my school gave grants instead of loans and had enough enough money to meet…