Advice to those not yet married/co-habitating: don't do it with someone who doesn't already know how to do at least 50% of this crap. Just don't. My first marriage was to the ultimate man-child: his SAHM (no offense intended, I'm one myself right now!) did everything for their household and he was clueless and surly…

Really? On what authority? Based on her little bio at the bottom of the article, it looks like this author is a Native American; does she not get to decide how to refer to herself?

I hope that she will end up again as Arya, but I have no theories about what will happen!

I feel that way about anti-abortion people: if they truly believe that abortion is murder, how could they possibly tolerate exceptions in cases of rape and incest, which many do?

There are lots of little details that imply it could be. At one point Ned lists off his children in his head but doesn't include Jon, yet he often refers to Jon as being his blood. Ned made some promise to his sister when she died that is mentioned often, which suggests it is significant, but we don't know what the…

I know plenty of sincerely religious people who are fully aware that other religions exist and perfectly happy to respect people's rights to belong to those religions, even if they think they are wrong. The type of religious person you are describing is an asshole, which is kind of my point.

The way I look at it, it is similar to saying Happy Birthday to someone, or giving someone a present. For me, the idea is to do/say something that makes them feel good or makes them happy. I wouldn't give a gift of something I really like that isn't appropriate for the recipient, with the reasoning that they would…

You sound like a reasonable person, so I don't want to pick a fight with you. But, I don't really get the idea of offering good wishes in a way that isn't meaningful to the person receiving the good wishes. Like, your comment suggests you'd say Merry Christmas to someone whose religion you don't know, or to someone…

I think it could work if it is presented as as alliance between Stark and Targaryen being the only way to save Westeros.

I think (and hope) Arya plays into this somehow. I feel like her storyline so far has been setting her up for something major.

So basically you taught her not to ask her parents to explain how the world works. Great.

Ha! That's like my dog— he's a lab, bred for`water, loves to swim, will happily jump into a kiddie pool full of water, but hates the bath. He just stands there shaking the entire time and struggles so hard to get out I'm afraid he'll injure himself.

I don't think she made up "baby blues"— it's a term I had seen before, anyway. And it makes sense to me— my emotions were totally out of control for the first two weeks of my child's life, like sobbing uncontrollably, feeling very scared, etc. But it passed so quickly that I don't think it was PPD. Hormones are a…

As a former NYC public school student I am super offended at the idea that 80% of us can't read. Not even "can't read at grade level", but can't read, period! And as an adult NYC resident, that the adults in the city are that stupid/clueless/lazy/whatever that we just don't care that 80% of our 17 year olds can't…

I guess I'm just cheap! :)

The truth is very different from what you said: 80% of NYC high school grads who went on to CUNY community colleges needed remedial help before being able to handle college-level work. In other words, that number does not include the many NYC public high school grads who go to private colleges, SUNY schools, or CUNY…

Hah, I totally don't agree about the smoking taxes— I was just about to use that as an example in another thread on this post. I used to smoke, and the ridiculous price was definitely an added incentive (thinking about all of the money I would save) to quit. I definitely have friends who cut back because of it too.…

Right now a lot of eating behavior is being guided by scientists who work for the major food manufacturers, or who are funded by them. The sophistication of the engineering and marketing of this type of food is really astounding— there was a great article in the NY Times Magazine about it a few weeks ago. It would be…

I never got one. It would probably be nice to have for rocking the baby to sleep, but I agree they seem too expensive.

I worked outside of academia for a few years and then got a PhD and taught. In my experience, the types of issues you mention are exacerbated more in a PhD program than in a non-academic job. Obviously this will vary depending on the people around you, but in my department and in the departments of other people I…