We’re each the oldest of 4, and had always assumed we’d have 4, as well. It took us longer to have our first than expected, and even though 2 and 3 came fairly quickly thereafter, we wouldn’t have had a 4th until we were around 40 and were hesitant to become parents again at an older age. We hemmed and hawed over it,…

I think that’s the first time anyone has paired anything “old” with Matt Gaetz.

Haha -  your comment was fine...I only noticed it right after writing mine and you pretty much covered it!

Shifting the burden to the landlord doesn’t fix the problem, either, because many landlords rely on the rental income to maintain ownership of the property (even large, corporate landlords that have financial covenants in their loans, both individual property mortgages and business lines of credit). Both the landlords…

imagine what it would be like to be one of the many people who shared it on Twitter and earnestly replied, “Love this!”

And don’t forget that they are proving themselves to be awful people, as well.

Even in a law firm you’re hardly ever going to use it because you want the points on your personal card! I used to travel a lot for a mid-sized firm and would hardly ever use my firm credit card because they had infrastructure in place to reimburse me for expenses within a day or two of submitting my expenses, which…

But something something Cynthia Nixon! (I totally agree with you).

Trump is different. Like Trump to the Iranian National Guard, the entire GOP was in his debt. They don’t owe Gaetz shit. I guess what I’m saying is that Trump was the gigantic turd on the sidewalk, whereas Gaetz is one of the maggots fluttering beside it.

Shh...it’s going perfectly. Don’t let him know, because he SHOULDN’T. CHANGE. A. THING.

The size and structure of the court isn’t in the constitution, and Congress is presumed to have control over that under the Necessary and Proper Clause (Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the Constitution) to handle this.  If Congress chooses to set its own criteria, that would fall within it’s presumed powers.

Presuming the filibuster is eliminated or made to actually be used, after passing HR1 and giving DC and PR statehood, I think it’s critical (even before an increased minimum wage) that we (i) add either 4 or 6 seats to the Supreme Court (and appoint only judges in their 40s to the new seats), and (ii) then pass…

I hope President Biden thinks long and hard about this and apologies to Neanderthals for comparing them to the Republican Party.

I see you are also a regular reader of this here website! :-)

Wow. I can’t blame her in the least for switching.  My kids’ school hired a full-time nurse this year because of the pandemic, and she was someone who had been working on a Covid ward and, apparently, just got burned out from it.  The PPE part reminds me of when, during W’s presidency, we had soldiers in battle asking…

Totally agreed. His obstinance went well beyond negligence or even gross negligence and was willful misconduct, to use some legal terminology, i.e., he was just inexcusably negligent, he was actively harmful, choosing to hurt people instead of helping. I can’t even fathom taking that path, let alone if it was…

What a difference having a president who gives a shit makes.

Gym, think of it as “the consequences of a free market.”

From my mom: “only one of you should parent at a time”, i.e., don’t gang up on a kid for discipline. It’s really hard not to jump in to help when my wife is disciplining, but I try to remember not to, because (i) it’s unfair to be ganged up on, and (ii) it sends the message, both to the kids and as a reminder to each…

Agreed.  Sadly, Holocaust survivors were housed in the work camps, repurposed as Displaced Person camps, until they had someplace to go, because otherwise they were all sleeping in the woods that night.  It sucks, but sometimes it’s the best of an awful scenario, and as long as the kids are treated well and humanely,…