Wear a skinny scarf or I may just barf?

Long-term expat, now French. Depp and Depardieu are waaaaaay out of our tax bracket! Wealthy celebrities are well-known for ditching France for lower tax countries like Monaco and Switzerland, but then, plenty of wealthy Germans do the same.

Did you grow up in 1909 coal country? I tried to sign my kid up to be a picker (person who sorts crush coal from rock by hand), but something something child labor laws. Thanks Obama.

Your coworker is an out of touch asshat. People call the police if you let your kid go outside for 8+ hours a day without checking in, you would have your children taken away from you. You can’t leave your kids for five minutes alone in a public space without some “concerned” person intervening or calling the police.

I was discussing the hassle of signing my two elementary school-aged kids for summer camps (it is a hassle because many of the camps are only part time, or won’t take both of my kids because of the age difference, etc.), and my co-worker was like, “what’s with all these fancy camps these days. when i was a kid we went…

Seriously! This is the first thing I bring up when my older co-workers go on about how “kids these days” contribute to a falling birthrate.

Childcare!? In my day they just dropped you off at the bootstrap factory where you work your way up from the bottom. Coddling these children will not turn them into to the sociopathic corporate elites this country needs.

But by refusing and paying the fine, that allows their members to qualify for subsidies for their coverage purchased through the exchanges which would cover birth control, which would make them complicit in the process. Also, their members drawing any sort of income from them facilitates them purchasing birth control,…

Most of what people say they hate about Obamacare is actually what they hate about their private insurance company.

“...We just want to keep serving the elderly poor as we have always done for 175 years.”

Stop trying to make repealing Obamacare happen. It's not going to happen.

18 years ago, I put on a pair of JNCO jeans and a Smashing Pumpkins t-shirt and went to a punk show at my (rural CT) town’s local teen center. There I saw a boy, told him I was going to flirt with him and did for the rest of the night... and then, on and off (and mostly online) for the next decade or so before we…

Given that sending someone whose husband left them for you any form of written communication is horseshit, I think this was an appropriate response.

I am really surprised at the response from PP. If these inmates are getting low-cost birth control by their own decision, how is that bad?

What I want to know is, how did this end up being an actual party? Like, more than a couple of frat bros getting together? Because honestly, what self-respecting woman (or person, really) would actually enter that party after hearing this bullshit? As a white woman, I would have turned right the fuck around. Possibly…

Oh yeah, that’s not racially loaded at all. /sarcasm

The experience of POC at ivies is different than that of white people. These environments are usually less welcoming in subtle ways.

Can we just agree that sex shouldn’t even factor into it? “Men’s work” and “Women’s work” is a silly concept. Sometimes the man will be better at repairing the house or fixing the car, and sometimes the woman will be. Sometimes the woman will be better at cooking and cleaning and sometimes the man will be. But setting…

I’m with you so much. Can we all just agree that this whole genre of “men suck at domestic things” is just fucking awful. Like, I am a man. I also like to make sure the kitchen is reasonably clean, and years of living without a dishwasher means I’m 100% okay with washing dishes on my own.

Yeah, I thought about that a lot while writing this up. Ticketing someone for taking up 2 seats on a train car that’s likely empty rings a lot of alarm bells.