Ha! It’s too late now for me — I’m stuck. It’s mostly that my science knowledge is about 15 years behind his. I know he feels the same about half of my rants.

Exactly! I love my SO and am so proud of him. But I seriously can’t force myself to follow about half of what he says.

Hey now, don’t insult salads like that. Salads are filling and nutritious.

Meh, I grew up in California (further inland and south, where it truly is hot as hell), lived in San Diego during college, and then moved back to Sweden and later the Midwest. When I lived in California, my temperature range was COMPLETELY different than it is now. Low-70s was sweatshirt weather. Even now in the…

This is my goal: get to the point where I feel I can afford to pay someone a descent wage to clean my house for me. Particularly the bathroom and dusting, because I hate doing that stuff but it is needed so often.

Totally agree. For me, BC has helped my acne a bit, but definitely didn’t cure it. For me, cutting dairy did a lot but still not perfect. Then my dermatologist put me on a blood pressure medication that also helps with hormonal acne in pre-menopausal women. BAM! Perfect skin. I can eat dairy again because that…

7 years together next Tuesday (not married yet, but we’re getting there).

They held back a few seats for every showing to make sure that any resident could experience it, regardless of their income.

Chicago has a same day ticket lottery. I went once with my friends in the back of the first balcony for $140. Entered the lottery for a few weeks and my boyfriend and I went for $10 each and were in SECOND ROW ORCHESTRA!!!! Neither one is that hard.

The state isn’t retaliating against them for using their right to free speech, private citizens are. The first amendment only protects us from restrictions on speech by the state. It isn’t a right to consequence free speech. If you are dumb enough to openly support this stuff and be identified, then you are creating a…

He literally said he “still” loves her given that she fills every inch of her jeans. Barf.

Legislating actually is really specialized work though. There are plenty of studies at this point on the effects of term limits and legislative professionalism at the state-level that indicate that they serve to reduce the the number and quality of laws written/passed and can end up empowering the executive because…

I love when people try to explain politics to me. I’m usually like “You are wrong (or at least have an incomplete understanding of what you’re talking about). Please stop trying to explain the thing I have a doctorate in to me as though I’m the dummy here.”

I guess my question is: what if he doesn’t order the military to do anything? The US military isn’t supposed to be used domestically (with exceptions for humanitarian efforts following disasters and the use of the national guard rather than active duty folks in cases of social reform). If he doesn’t activate them and…

Honest question though: given the professionalization of our military (very high) and do you think that the military would intervene without being instructed to by civilian command? I see it as a potentially huge conflict that could be viewed as a coup itself. Thoughts?

100% agree. There are problems with the ACA that can be alleviated with bipartisan work. If the GOP has skin in the game of the existing structure through reforms of that structure, it could help to depoliticize ACA over time. And it will undermine Trump’s attempts to withdraw support from various planks of the ACA…

Honestly, I’m fine with him and his kids never facing a trial. If Pence wants to pardon them (and he likely would) that’s fine. Just get Trump out. Terrible policies we can deal with. Unraveling the constitution and democratic norms is something that history tells us is very hard to come back from.

I disagree with one of the points above: that does not look good on that Hadid in the photo. She looks absolutely hideous and my understanding is that she is actually beautiful.

Yeah, that was her thinking. Like, because of complications from #2 she has to have a c-section and she just wants everything done at once. Like, she has to get her abs stitched together again anyways, just do it once!

My best friend was talking about doing this. She’s having her third boy this summer (yay/yiiiii) and wanted to have a tummy tuck and getting her abs stitched together (split after #2) done at the same time. But there is some reason they can’t do it when she has the C-section and she is so upset. If she does it (and I…