Ho yess! I’d love that creepster to git gone.

Love these ideas. My #1 go to is a voucher for food delivery. Every location has a pizza place that delivers, and some food delivery services do gift cards. In Canada I often do Swiss Chalet. Not just for new parents - if someone is stressed, sick, or grieving, giving them the gift of “Just have someone show up at…

Want to plug an organization I volunteer for. Texas Wildlife Rehab Center here in Houston. They took in the famous cab hawk.

This is off topic, but looking forward to that gremlin Stephen Miller being pulled into Mueller’s investigation. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/us/politics/trump-comey-firing-letter.html

Please, do your research on whatever you decide to donate to. Sites like charitynavigator.org are independent non profits themselves who review charities.

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After our second was born, my parents and in-laws paid our 1x month housekeeper her fees to come 2x month for 6 months. My parents and in-laws are amazing.

There’s also a lot of scholarships that are given to less connected, poor but exceptional students to go to Ivy league schools.

When my next door neighbor at the time had her first and second kids, I’d give her a quick call when I was going grocery shopping and offer to pick up anything she may need.

These are all excellent! But I feel like you left off the most important one: cleaning, the thing which there’s never enough time or energy for; having to look at the mess that you don’t feel you can do anything about results in being severely bummed out. Bring a pal when you come over to let them nap. One of you…

You know when someone criticizes you and it’s exactly what you’ve been thinking about yourself and you’re like really angry about it?

This shit is so tied into the moral/ethical perceptions of virtually everyone on the planet.

We must pretend we have a meritocracy or else discussions about taxes, social programs, etc. would hinge on their effectiveness, not some vague moral argument about who “earned” it.

Welcome to the wonderful world of “legacy” admissions. I used to date a girl who graduated from the top-ranked liberal arts college in the country (which, to be honest, has more in common with the ivies than it does peer liberal arts institutions) in the late 1990s. She did some poking around into admissions policies…

Taylor Swift is a feminist the same way the “beef” in a White Castle hamburger is meat.

I’ve had this discussion with a friend of mine that works at NYT about young Sulzberger. Sure, he sounds like a bright guy, and he did work his way up, kind of, but I argued that many, many other people, given the same opportunities, could also have put in that work and risen the ranks and done just as good a job. But…

I think closing Harvard and Yale and then distributing their ridiculous endowments to public universities would do a lot to help this country. Of course, none of those funds should be spent financing law, public policy or, most importantly, business degrees.

nope, they don’t...they can keep their money or their heads but not both.

The rich never learn.

Delmar added that when the review was complete, the Inspector General’s office would “advise the appropriate officials” on “established procedures.”