This was lunch convo with the in-laws. Apparently, all black people get extra SAT points added and all black professionals are only there because of affirmative action. In their deluded little minds, letting people of color in equates directly to keeping deserving whites out, because they don't think any person of…

A good summary.

True, but you're using your brain. You're not listening to certain "news" sources that tell you 50% of lib'ruls are aborting 54% of their pregnancies (it has numbers, it must be true) so they can go to the Hamptons or Paris or some other commie place.

Our parish priest recently read an anti-abortion (well, anti-women, really) letter from the bishop. Looking around as he read it, in an attempt to keep my head from exploding as my blood pressure skyrocketed, I realized my spouse and maybe one girl there with her grandparents were the only women of child-bearing age…

It's to differentiate us from "Upstate" which morons think refers to Westchester.

Northern NY. The parts north of Syracuse that most people think of as Ontario.

I'm from a hunting-mad town in NNY and...yeah, I can believe that story from the coworker. A guy gets killed every year in my hometown and it's not like they do a full dragnet and question the porcupines. Especially when the ways to prevent it involve limiting gun-nut access to roam the woods shooting stuff, which…

Lindy, you've scarred me for life. Awesome.

I have a BA, MS, and JD, with dreams of starting the PhD in the fall. None Ivy, but with my spouse having a BA and JD, I must rush to remind her how much of a catch I am by this bs standard I will use only when it serves my purposes.

I won't tar and feather, because that sounds like a lot of work.

Too true. Even those of us who always planned on being able to contribute and care for parents—part of why I went to law school and got a professional career—are finding the money isn't there after the expenses of daily life.

One of my employees brings his toddler to work a couple days a week and afternoons post-day care. It used to be every day. It reduces his productivity some, but if he can't have the kid and needs a full time sitter, financially it's the same as not having the job. It's a rough call as a manager—another worker is…

This.

Well said. The cultural aspect is hugely important to the personal beliefs, and approaches, we all take.

oops. Said better elsewhere.

I quit drinking a few years ago, in no small part due to these hangovers. It was like a switch was flipped. After one not particularly dramatic night out, I took two days to recover. And it kept happening. Between that and a family history of being impoverished drunks, I decided it was time to hang up the shot glasses…

As a Leafs fan...yep, that's about right.

If your boyfriend gets a six figure job, I'm great at dusting and vacuuming. I will even do windows.

False. All abortions are for careless women to go out and continue having unprotected sex with multiple partners just to make Jesus cry, because they hate America.

Same here with the anecdata.