Honestly, I was way more annoyed with the setup of this one than the last. It really seemed like CNN framed most of these questions around republican talking points. One was something like “why do you want to tie America’s hands by saying we won’t launch preemptive nuclear strikes?” They really seemed to be going…

I recently remembered ISideWith.com, and it occurred to me that it could be a great tool in this election of too many candidates. It takes a while to fill out the survey if you’re thorough (expanding all sections to get all the questions, looking at “other stances” instead of just yes/no), but I found it really…

I’ve been watching a lot of Mr Rogers lately. Lildamnhero is old enough to appreciate him now, though he tends to get bored of the make-believe puppets (and often demands “Rogers” until I fast-forward). And it just keeps hitting me that I don’t think there’s any other show like it.

I’m struggling at work. I’m so burned out and have been for a long time. Or, as our recent employee survey would call it, I’m “fully disengaged”. I can’t focus even on things that used to interest me. I’ve been at this place for far too long and I need a change, but I feel like I don’t even have the energy to start a…

Have you ever wondered how you might stay cool while sleeping? Don’t worry, Lifehacker has you covered.

For Mother’s Day I got the gift of my baby’s first cold. I guess I should be grateful that it took almost nine months for us to hit this milestone, but after a sleepless night, I do not feel very grateful. Although maybe just a little grateful that I am at work while my husband attempts to work from home with a…

I want to move, but I don’t know where. We currently own a home in a very white working class suburb of Boston who voted 70% Trump, and I don’t want to put my son into the not-great school system here. (A school system with a racially insensitive mascot, to boot.)

The comments section is rough on that Simpsons Apu article from yesterday.

Sorry for two posts in quick succession, but I want CLT to weigh in on a debate that’s raging over at Jezebel about LL Bean’s policy change. People are sad that they had to change their 100% lifetime satisfaction guarantee due to “abuses” of the system (which include things like people using it to replace clothes kids…

Is it performance art, trolling, or just someone who’s never been exposed to the idea of punctuation or discrete thoughts?

That’s basically all I wanted to say. I’m happy about it and it’s not like I can brag about it to anyone in my real life who would care.

Hey all. I haven’t been around much in the last couple months due to the lildamnhero eating up basically all my free time. Ironically, now that I’ve returned to work, I may actually have more down time and be around here more, as it’s more common for me to have lulls at work than at home. And something has been…

And it is simultaneously the most wonderful and exhausting and frustrating and awe-inspiring and fucking overwhelming thing I have ever done. FYI for any of you contemplating motherhood, you may want to skip this post because it’s a lot of venting.

I haven’t completed the new season yet, but I’m almost there. And holy shit, the last few episodes I’ve watched have been gut-wrenching. SPOILERS AHEAD through episode 11.

I don’t know if I’m more crotchety and sensitive to it now, or if there are legitimately more stupid people on Kinja these days, but the amount of people with broken sarcasm/satire detectors just seems through the roof. From this post.

Did you guys see the recent speech from the mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu? It was pretty good. New Orleans has been removing its confederate monuments, and he spoke at the removal of the last one on why it was the right thing to do (and it still baffles me that there are people who dispute that).