Having your child die a gruesome death from a horrible mistake seems like punishment enough.

Right, but the whole point of the article is that they did not leave their children to die in a hot car because they were “busy at work.” I’m surprised that’s all you got out of Gene Weingarten’s work on this subject.

Only the most hubristic of people think this couldn’t happen to them. I am generally against charging these cases unless you can prove the child was forgotten on purpose. These parents suffer so greatly after. It’s harrowing.

I remember one morning with my youngest I was so damn tired. Just exhausted. He was about 6 months old. Maybe a little older? I was on autopilot and I was just driving to work. I was about a block away from the office and he made a cooing noise - a gurgle or something - after having been super quiet the whole way to…

Have you read the WaPo article that’s linked in the article?

I appreciate everyone here who is saying that Cats sucks, because they’re right, but they’re also not going far enough. Everything Andrew Lloyd Weber touches is garbage.

Cats is a bunch of poems, crudely shaped into songs, and then shoehorned around an abstract excuse for a plot. It’s fucking terrible.

I hate Cats.  Love musicals.  Think cats is just TOO weird.

My lovely mother in occasion would ask me what I wanted for dinner on my birthday, then make something I absolutely hated or couldn’t eat (sausage soup, I’m a vegetarian), then proceed to scream at me until I ate it and apologized for every single thing in America, all of which were my fault.

Careening over the off-topic cliff as I so often do:

I would argue your disappointment is due to your selections. You really should have gone with the Ultimate feast, as the two best items are the shrimp scampi (basically just shrimp drowned in garlic butter) and the crab legs (which can be dipped in the extra butter).  No one goes to Red Lobster for soup.  Its for old…

Wait, Esther, you never explained why you’d never been to Red Lobster - you leave your 16th-birthday story hanging with your mom asking you if you wanted to go. Why didn’t you go??

Do you think the usual MAGA choads will start blowing dog whistles now or wait ?

Rather than give people your unsolicited opinion on how you’d prefer women to dress while flying, why don’t you just make a fist and jam it up your own ass instead?

I’m afraid I can’t tell if it’s offensive or not based on the pictures provided.

What idiot came up with the idea to wear nice clothes on a cramped, uncomfortable flight? That never made sense to me. People are starting to ignore things that don’t make sense, I’ve noticed.

It’s to make a point. That flying while black is just like driving while black, BBQing while black, entering the apartment complex where you live while black, and so forth. You can be any number of things and still catch racist bullshit from people who hate you for your success.

Based on the replies to your comment, all airlines are Florida.

Is it just me, or American Airlines is the Florida of airlines?

I hear Jamaica is kinda warm... Miami pretty much the same.  It might be offensive if I wore it (as a dude, yeah, it’ll be offensive), on a woman this looks like typical “I’m flying from one hot, humid beach to another hot, humid beach and I have dressed so I am not sweating bullets and sticking to the seat.”