About a hundredish years ago? Sacco and Vanzetti, etc. Italian immigrants definitely were treated as not-white for some time (along with a lot of non-Protestant European immigrants at that time). However, that obviously isn't an issue in the present day and also like 0% relevant to bigoted bullshit coming from this…

Haha, what the fuck, is this some kind of thing? Freshman year my roomie and I turned on the TV to watch an episode of Golden Girls every morning before forcing ourselves out of bed. It was the best. (It was just about the only good thing about that year, but hey.)

It's a Bengal kitten. Bengals have cool markings, but many of them tend to have wild temperaments because the breed was created by breeding domestic cats with some type of small wild cat (can't recall which off the top of head). Breeding them has created a lot of "waste" animals as the first several generations of…

I'm not on Twitter, but the idea of a Twitter campaign to call out white people who do stuff like sing the national anthem, etc would tickle me so. "Can't believe a GERMAN is singing the natl anthem. What an insult to WWII vets." "Can't believe we just voted a Brit into office to represent our state." You know, just…

You can get a pack and play sheet pretty cheap on Amazon, too, to make it a bit more comfy. Hope it works out!

In the case of parenting a newborn, I would probably trade off noise annoyances for the ability to grab two plates of nachos and bring'em upstairs, for sure.

I think the difference is that a bar is loud and distracting. The whole point is to be distracted and get into the ambience. Whereas going outside to water the tomatoes is not an engrossing event, and you can still watch your home.

I believe it varies from state to state.

Hahaha!

Too true to most of that! I mean I had a c-section and the bleeding wasn't as bad, but it still lasted six weeks and the occasional trip to Target or the grocery store was the best I could muster - preferably in a sweatshirt and maternity leggings.

It must be that in London there's perhaps less hostility towards children in general. We have this disturbing trend in the US, it seems, of people just being downright hostile to the very presence of children, no matter how well-behaved they may be. I really don't get it.

Y'all should set up a pack and play in each apartment for the other's baby. Worth a shot, anyway!

Yeah, I couldn't stop thinking about a fire. If the baby was crying and needing to be soothed, no biggie, run up the stairs and take care of it. But if something dangerous happened like an apartment fire and you didn't pick up on it right away? Total nightmare scenario.

Do NOT have sex with a drunk partner is seriously going to be one of the top ten sex ed talking points when my kids get old enough for that sort of thing.

Heh, my son has a little broom and dust pan set...in teal, purple, and pink with big hearts. He doesn't give two shots - he loves sweeping! He also helps with chores. I mean he is 18 months so that's a natural stage for him to be going through right now, but I encourage the heck out of him for putting laundry in the…

Anything but Ticonderoga was a travesty. By week 3 the off-brands would be constantly snapping off at the tip, and when you sharpened them, the graphite would end up weirdly off-center, so that the wood was all in the way of attempting to write and the "lead" was uselessly sitting to one side. Awful. Also they felt…

Umm I think you mean best.

I bought some of those once but I'd become so used to using regular notebooks that I was constantly confused - kinda like when I try to use a computer mouse left-handed now. Sad.

MILKY PENS! How could I forget? And only plebes use wide-ruled, obviously. Ugh gross mom. Do NOT buy wide-ruled.

I'm tearing up and that is ridiculous. Damn pregnancy hormones. I'm blown away by someone actually listening. And some of this stuff is really bright and awesome. I covet the fuse beads and sunglasses.