Lindy, were you and Macklemore Bulldogs together or Raiders?

"Keep pushing forward no matter what sort of obstacles you" put in your own damn way.

My immediate (in my head) response to your comment was "but, but, but he produced his plays with his savings and they were hits and he was able to parlay that into small funding for his first film . . ." But you got me to thinking and you're absolutely right. Perry gets big Hollywood money based on the success of his…

Oh, I wasn't trying to correct - should have made the point that Picket Fences was the only one I could think of, and that's like 15+ years old. So, yeah, Hollywood does small-town poorly.

Picket Fences did small-town well, but I can't think of many other examples.

I just want to send his daughters a Google map printout of the route from her house to the local Planned Parenthood. Because I have no idea whether my (Catholic) parents' insurance covered birth control when I was a teen, but I sure as hell wasn't going to risk them getting a bill or notice of benefits showing my…

No spoilers, but were you as annoyed as me that MP switched to color-coordinated bangles instead of her white Hermes scarves? Evoked 80s jelly bracelets to me.

I'm not a huge fan of Tyler Perry's themes, but he hasn't waited around for someone to allow him to make films and shows for people of color and I gotta respect him for that.

How many of these authors do we think have actually read Sandberg's book?

My stars to you, billions and billions of stars.

Do you see some sort of partisan argument in my comment?

There aren't enough stars in the sky for me to give you for your comments in this thread. Like, a whole can of chicken-and-stars soup worth of stars.

By giving a "special" name to the oldest kid (more commonly making first born son a "Junior"), don't you risk setting up subsequent kids as less-than or first kid as favorite? I've never liked the practice, personally.

I like family name first names, but if you're a mom who wants to give your kids your name and you have more than one kid, this method isn't going to work (unless you go the George Foreman route.)

Hyphenation or dual last names would be a compromise. But you make a point that I rarely hear in the "should I take my husband's name" debates - someone always makes the argument that mothers should change their names so that they have the same surname as their kids, ignoring that so many children don't end up with…

Plus, she unilaterally gave the child the father's last name, rather than any compromise (well, the judge thought changing the child's first name to Martin, mom's surname, was a reasonable compromise of the conflict between the parents.)

That's the stuff of wage-and-hour class action lawsuits.

Sorry, I'm not always good at reading tone. You're right on about shame not having a positive effect.

Washington state's smoking ban was enacted by initiative vote - democracy =/= communism.

I always found Bikram to be more ball-sweat scented.