Ahem. Those people are insurance companies. Always have been. If I had a dollar for everyone I personally knew who had been denied coverage they were rightfully owed and had to sue to get the claim paid (luckily hospitals are used to that), I'd have like five dollars, but that's too many.

I'd swear I saw a thing once there there's a "my fragile masculinity" hashtag going around and guys are posting the most hilariously gendered items ever.
It's pretty funny.

Seriously. Fuck this fucking guy.

I kinda thought it was just text.

Ouch. Harsh, but fair.

You don't like dogs? This entire thread had me suspecting it but now I know. You're an awful person.

I heard PotUS went on to do straight kid's music and thought, "Yeah. I can see that. Totally works."

Imagine the horror of genre aficionados when their kids grow up to be like, "yeah, whatever's on the radio" sort of people.

Support systems outside the parents are nearly as important to a kid's development as the parents, and can in fact make up for important deficiencies in the parents themselves. Uncles, older siblings, grandparents, even regular sitters. These are all very important to a kid's development.

Is this the part where I admit that I kinda like Jack Johnson? I mean, I never seek him out, but whenever I hear one of his tunes, I'm like, "ah. Well isn't that nice."

There seems to be this running theme lately that many of the writers often don't even do a cursory wiki search before they start ripping on something, and so get things kinda wrong.

I think the entire last year, especially the election, has really pissed a lot of people off and we're ready to flip the double birds and draw pistols at the drop of a dime. I know I've been WAAAY more combative on here than I'm able to excuse several times recently. I'm embarrassed by it, frankly.

WOW the four dinners thing. But she's/they're clearly strong in other areas if the kids aren't little monsters. Good for her and them!

That kind of stuff was my gateway to symphonic music though. Well… that and my teenaged pretension about "serious" music. I was a metal kid, you see (very serious*) and dense instrumentation flipped a switch in my head. So it was metal and Hayden or metal and Vivaldi (Autumn is ripe do be done as an electric…

Jeezus, yes. Below a certain age (like eight, perhaps) kids shouldn't get to choose, they should get choices. "What kind of pizza do you want, Timmy?" is not something you ask a six year old. It becomes all about agency then, and most often, it will devolve into indecision and shouts of "NO I DON'T WANT THAT" and…

Ours was Fleetwood Mac's Rumors.
That turned out ok.

I'm reminded of a gif that went around a few years ago where the teenage son is lying on the couch with his book bag open next to him. Dad comes walking by, glances at the book bag, and this look of horror comes over his face. Dad reaches into the book bag, past the gun and cash and bag of dope and pulls out a…

I've long suspected that there's a level of social conditioning that puts us (especially males) in that "I think I could, so I should" mindset. That we shouldn't let any romantic opportunity pass. Which is how we get the trope of the conflicted person who is supposed to be monogamous but can't, men conflicted on the…

We should book gigs.

As did I.