I think the problem is most men jump to “well why do I have to pay for the baby?” instead of “why isn’t there a male contraceptive pill by now?”

Creepiness aside, yeah, that’s tacky. Like that (poor, non-movie-star) dude who takes every girl to the same secluded makeout spot. Make an effort!

Actually, I spoke too soon. There was an article in the NYT this morning about Ivanka Trump and her plans to potentially run for office. Obviously she’s a dangerous person, and I expressed my concern to my sister. She replied, “Who cares what she does? The press will laugh her out of existence!”

Brad Pitt took his new girlfriend, Nicole Poturalski, who my friend Lola recently said “looks like the TV version of Angelina Jolie,” to the French château where he and Angie got married. [Us Weekly]

I have to say, I am becoming increasingly enamoured with Corgis 😀

Anybody want a pic of a happy Corgi in a bathtub? Darwin says hi.

I’ve had a pretty rough couple weeks

That’s the bizarre part of the argument here in the US. They talk about universal healthcare like it’s a unicorn yeti. Yet somehow, it seems to be available in many places around the world. Somehow, we Americans just can’t seem to figure it out. Seems....odd.

Ok, here’s my story from the last 24 hours. I woke up at 5am on Saturday morning with central crushing chest pain (as a nurse, my mind went unfortunately went directly down the heart attack route; get an ECG, troponin levels etc.). Ambulance came, paramedics did an ECG, started GTN and aspirin, got an IV line in and…

I consider myself a peaceful person but the nose exposure is testing my limits.

I had federal jury duty pre covid and I swear I almost got to the point of needing a jury myself. It was a criminal drug case and was long, like six weeks, so the pool had to be really big and they had difficulty getting jurors. We had to come in for a third day because of it. The intro and waiting was bad enough…

It’s interesting how a lot of it has aged but not outside suspension of disbelief territory, Gollum still looks pretty good as does most of the CGI only stuff.

Watching The Lord of The Rings trilogy for the first time in a long while and the first time it’s both the extended editions and in something more than DVD quality and wow have some of the mixed-perspective and live-action on top of CG shots aged dreadfully, in particular the waterfall hideout scene where they have…

Ug. Yes !!! Terrible trend. Or organization by color. WTF is that ? These are people who don’t actually read. .... Our library has both no contact pickup and allows browsing BUT only self checkout is available. They did help me find the Clifford the Big Red Dog Section for the tiny human. ( all with us in our masks ) 

Got my hair done/did!

This, exactly. My father was like this in our parent-child relationship. Screwed things up royally, we reconciled because I thought I “should”, until he told me how he felt like my life was shitty only because of him. That I wouldn’t have gotten divorced, that I don’t have a better job, etc....because of his…

Why do I hear Carly Simon playing all of a sudden...

I love your post. I had a similar sort of thought. Perhaps she never married because she was like “man relationships can be bullshit sometimes... why would I make it hard to extricate myself”. Perhaps she doesn’t particularly care about children. I have a pretty high stakes job and right now I slog on because I’m in a…

Okay, when I read this letter, my first reaction was: wow, this person is making several bad (unjustified) inferences. The relationship he describes reminds me of one I was in and, similarly, if you ask my ex his side of the story, he too would be taking lots of credit for why my life is the way it is. In reality, I…

Letter writer cannot forgive themself because they probably desperately need to feel relevant and effective in some ways, even if they’re bad ways. You want to believe you are important and you actions matter. Your actions probably did matter, but it’s not okay to put this all on yourself with no agency on the part of…