Pack this up in a bag with private prisons and for-profit colleges. As with most horrifying things in this country, the combination of massive profit incentive and a light-to-nonexistent regulatory framework creates an ideal environment for shit like this.

Ha! I was thinking about this the other day. I had to fly for work, so I watched “You’ve Got Mail” on the plane. Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) doesn’t wear anything other than grey/black/beige and in very simply silhouettes - pants and shirt with cardigan, sheath with cardigan and thick black wool tights, etc. I remember…

Yeah, even NPR was reporting today that Jones “started a fight” which ended up with the shooting that caused the death of the fetus. I assumed (hoped) that the story simply left out what the shooter was charged with, because the story was more focused on Alabama’s really crazy fetal protection laws...but I guess not.…

Your point is that you’re being purposely obtuse.

What if you’re FROM San Francisco and all your family and friends are there? Why is it a “poor choice” not to move away from your entire support system?

Exactly!

Everybody’s situation is different, obviously, but if you live in a place like San Francisco or NY or Portland or LA or any number of other cities with out-of-control housing costs, you’re not buying a house at all. And forget eating out. Real numbers from a friend who lives in SF:

All fair points.

Exactly. The big income doesn’t really mean much if you had to borrow so much in order to be able to achieve that income that you’re spending it all on paying back the student loans.

Re: high-earners with large student debt - I understand the discomfort around the idea of wiping out/reducing our debt, too. And, for sure, the income allows us to be in a less dire place even if we are cash-strapped because of the enormously burdensome payments. But I can affirm that those of us with big debt came…

interesting. what did you think?

How Long Til Black Future Month is so good!

ha! we are very much the same. :)

It me. Husband and I have no new stories to tell each other. Often he’d like to have a “date night,” and I’m like, how is this different from literally every other night in our lives? Eat dinner together, watch a movie, maybe have sex if my reproductive system isn’t currently trying to murder me from the inside out.…

“Only Congress can declare war”

holy shit

Hot take: Krispy Kreme is trash. No self-respecting donut lover eats Krispy Kremes.

Ha. One time when we were back home for a late Christmas celebration with my family, I went out to visit a good friend I hadn’t seen in years. I was paying zero attention to the time and had no idea how long I’d been out. Apparently everyone was calling/texting to tell me to come home cuz the kids wanted to open…

lol. When I got married, my pastor refused to let us do it in my home church because we planned to have a dance at the reception. Mind you, there is no problem with dancing in the church doctrine, my pastor just got excessively weird and controlling over the years. I tried to go to a neighboring church (as in, the…

Yep.