"Jamilah DaCosta" is a lovely name. I had to say it several times just to enjoy letting it roll off my tongue. It's got a poetic meter to it. :)

Employment discrimination happens all the time, but it's usually more subtle and subconscious. I can't believe this bitch actually said that. She needs to be put out of business.

Thanks all who chimed in with edumacations! :)

hahaha!

Cool! I guess you really do learn something new each day! :)

You made me snort tea!! :~D

It's not? Well, call me a West Coast ignoramus then. :)

Country mice moving to the city and city mice moving to the country are tales as old as time. NY is just the quintessential, most glamorous, and most symbolically meaningful big city in the US. After all, it's the home of the Statue of Liberty and of Ellis Island and all of the dramatic immigration stories.

But if during your period, you poop, say 1.3 times as much, and you eat the same, where does the extra 0.3 of turds come from?

I have two questions.

Fuck 'em!

I don't have kids, but she was originally neutral on my having left him since he doesn't have a college degree. So she thought I was moving on to find someone who was my level, of course (eye roll). But when she learned that I left for such a relatively trivial reason, you know, sexual abuse, she was a little…

Hee hee! White people. God love 'em, I know they have All Teh Privilege, but I wouldn't be one for all the world. They are so funny-looking. When I've had white SO's, I'd wake up in the middle of the night and go—WHOA! It looks like he's made of moonbeams!

Eeeeee hee ha ha! I got you! :)

I'd like to have seen that! What fun!

Aww thanks for the support!

Yup. Amen. Ya know, even if people could change abusers, why the fuck is it my job? Why should I have to live with the asshole while various people try to fix him up?

Yup, been there, done that. To her credit, when I first told my mom about my divorce, she shrugged, and said, fine, whatevs. But years later, when I told her why, she said I should have talked to her first, and she'd have consulted with his parents, and maybe they could have formed a committee to stage an intervention…

I hope you mean of this Jez article and not of the referenced Slate article? Because that shit was dishonest and rude. In terms of food preferences, I'm totally with that dude as Meat is my Favorite Flavoring Agent, but I don't sneak meat products into my vegetarian friends.

Tall and thin cans are less stable, but take up a smaller footprint in your cupboard.