For a lot of people... are they (me included just living beyond their means)?

For real though, call the bank if you have a mortgage or other loan that you won’t be able to pay. They might have deferral plans and at the very least you can usually get them to waive a late fee or make sure you don’t default or get reported to the credit bureau. You do not need an attorney to do this. Just call and…

I don’t think they are assuming that all feds rent, I have seen letters targeted at a variety of creditors (including mortgages).

I’m sure my mortgage company would LOVE to get that letter! Perhaps I can come to a loan officer’s home and re-shingle their roof? 

As a former Iowan, I get so angry at anti-immigration and anti-illegal-immigration rhetoric spewed both from inside and outside the state. Corn, beans, pigs. It is hard, backbreaking, exhausting, smelly, disgusting work. You know who doesn’t want to do that work for the wage the farms offer? White people.

Hands down my favorite part of Into the Spiderverse was the older, slightly paunchy, Jake Johnson Spiderman. I’m at a place in my life where I just really connected and sympathized with that character.

Article fails to mention that there are no laws in place that punish discrimination against pregnant workers. I’m so fucking sick of global demographic mysteries that have answers screaming in your face. White men shoot up schools and churches because they’re violently bigoted. Mystery solved. There aren’t enough…

It’s also pretty tame for a Westwood... It’s lovely, in fact; not a word often used to describe the work of that house.

I must say, I was expecting a heftier price tag for a celebrity wedding dress. $8,600 is downright reasonable with wedding dresses...at least if Say Yes to the Dress is any indicator.

This is beyond stupid, because unless they just happened to be on their way out the door to go conduct an op, someone ordered them to kit up for this. Which also means nobody was willing to tell Trump that this was a major breach of OpSec to do so.

Let me tell you a story about A Quiet Place.

Late one night, my wife had gone to bed, and I decided to stream it to my Oculus Go, watching it in a virtual movie theater. Which is exactly what it sounds like. The reality is that I’ve got a high-resolution Android device and noise-canceling headphones strapped to my…

I would say I disagree with this characterization from both ends. Hollywood’s stereotypical dad is either useless when it comes to parenting, or an aloof fuck-up who just wants one more chance.

I understand the stereotype you’re referring to is a bit more specific to the post-apocalypse genre, but I’d say that…

So basically their version of motherhood is stereotypical Hollywood fatherhood? Because that’s what I think of when I read “harsh and brutal, and not necessarily kind, and not necessarily loving or showing her love, and not allowing herself to feel the love. But she is going to have them survive.”

her take on motherhood makes PERFECT sense to me, and i agree that it feels closer to an actual female perspective on motherhood than the sugary, dumbed down stuff we’re usually fed.

I mean, it’s a hollow insult at this point, but if you wanted to illustrate “delicate special snowflakes”, who feel “victimized and triggered” by the existence of people who are completely ignoring them, and desperately want to create a “safe space” for themselves, I don’t think you could come up with a better example…

Well this whole article gave me PTSD flashbacks. I was a permatemp at another national news organization, and it was the worst.

Someone didn't thoroughly read the article....

Here’s the best way I heard the “skills gap” described:

If you can’t mill your own flour for the pie dough, store bought is NOT FINE. Come on, dude.

I would do it from scratch because I enjoy it but this is cooking. Rolling out dough, store bought or not, and making a pastry, is more cooking than most people do when they cook dinner. There is prep, clean up, art, and science in this recipe. It requires specialized equipment that many people do not even own. Heat…