oh ffs. if I had just won a gold medal I’d have trouble just standing still and not jumping all over the place screaming for ten hours, nevermind displaying the appropriate level of patriotism!

there are tons of comments from people on this very post about how they are happy to vote for her. most of us who feel this way don’t say it often because we’re tired of getting shit on and harrassed.

count me in.

Right? Kids in front of screens all the time is not good—but not because of omg the wifi!!!, because kids need to be up and moving and playing, building things and running around and singing and drawing.

that’s... not how autism works

She could have just said what Bernie said and been done with it, but no, she had to pander to the woo crowd, and if you can’t see how all her nonsense is pandering then I just can’t help you.

No. When you add in all the garbage surrounding those statements, it becomes pandering to anti-science woo. Bernie’s answer was 495794309587349587 times better.

Then why can’t she just SAY she supports mandatory vaccination with medical exemptions, instead of this wishy washy pandering to woo?

He was so, so good. It was obvious everything he said was from the heart.

she would have learned Spanish and then made an enormous Spanish-to-English scrapbook

Except her twin brother played that role.

In educational theory, this is known as the “zone of proximal development,” not the Goldilocks rule...

Come over to the Episcopal Church. We have all the ceremony and whatnot, with better music and more common sense.

also if any of y’all are headed over there to comment, please note Alison’s site rules:

Except if daycare charges $5/minute and you pay less than $5/minute, then they are basically having to pay for the privilege of working and have no time to make other arrangements.

Because shit floats.

Alison is great and her advice is almost always awesome. Her blog is one of my favorites.

I think he did, especially Myrcella and Tommen. That scene where he got to be Myrcella’s dad for like five minutes was very touching. But he hasn’t been able to be as involved in their upbringing, so there’s some distance there.

They used to make you shave and get an enema before childbirth (like, it was pretty for my mom’s generation to have to do this) but not so much anymore.

Maybe, maybe not. He never respected her, himself, so I doubt he’d much care.