Also, Giulani should be encouraged to make as many media appearances as humanly possible. Right now, he’s the Dems’ greatest asset. 

Thank you so much for sharing this story, Prachi. This is the most incisive and heartfelt reporting I’ve ever read.

Colostomy bags have the distinction that they are actually useful and help people.

As someone who has cared for someone with a colostomy, this comparison of Lewandowski to a colostomy bag is an insult to colostomy bags.

make sure he knows you love him, include him, and respect him. that he’s not the sum of these unfortunate circumstances (particularly underemployment and infidelity). if you look at his situation and start telling him not to become an mra or white supremacist, you’re effectively pushing a perspective into his mind that…

[heart emoji] My brother went missing (presumed dead) approximately 18 months ago. After he went missing, my mom and I found some google searches on suicide and time spent on conspiracy theory sites. I did not reach out to him enough because he so rarely reciprocated and because he put on a brave face to the rest of…

I think what you are arguing is the difference between “poor” and “Broke”. I look at it like this, poverty usually doesn’t come from circumstances that you control where being broke comes from poor financial decisions. Being broke doesn’t mean you can’t afford to live, it means you can’t afford to live the way you…

...sure, but maybe we can do that after we solve the problems of food and housing insecurity, joblessness, lack of access to affordable medical care, and rampant inequalities in education and opportunity?

I think the most powerful indictment I can muster against the Christian Right is that the more power they acquire, the more sincerely I wish that this country followed Jesus’ teachings. I don’t necessarily know how I feel about religion, but in the words of Winston from Ghostbusters, I love Jesus’ style.

I don’t know how you keep constantly hitting on topics of interest to me, Claire, but you’ve done it again, this is a real bugbear as I don’t have a hood and my kitchen is configured in such a way as to make adding the requisite ducting close to impossible. I’ll definitely try this next time, but FWIW, I also…

Uh, why not just call both “parent”? For fuck’s sake.

Yeah, for comparison’s sake, here are the youth smoking numbers up until Juul became popular and sent it back upward again. If you went to high school in the ‘90s or ‘00s, you probably have an unrealistic conception of how many high schoolers smoke cigarettes these days. It had fallen off a ton.

The youth tobacco use rate has been on a downward trend for decades, until e-cigarettes became common. It increased by about 40% between 2017 and 2018.

“I have been Juuling for years . . . Common sense would dictate that if vaping were so dangerous that we all need to stop vaping immediately, that people would have fallen sick before this summer.”

The referendum was not binding and parliament represents the people.

Source?

Yeah, I read it awhile ago. Couldn’t think of a good joke. Came back to see if anyone came up with a witty reply.

If you leave garbage on the counter, you deserve to be ghosted.

This isn’t the “tell us about what a good person you are” deal breakers thread this is the “petty” deal breakers thread. Gird your loins - this is not the space for people to show their best selves!

I have a lot, I’m sure, because I never date anyone. My two big rules are I don’t date co-workers (anymore) and I don’t date anyone who works at my favorite bar (... anymore). I once called it off with a FWB scenario with this very hunky, fun dude because he made fun of the fact that I wore the same cardigan on…