I work one-on-one with college students around topics like building metacognitive awareness, strengthening executive functioning, and curbing procrastination, and I find that a central thesis of just about all of my discussions is that so many of our current anxiety/motivation/productivity issues stem from us living…

My parents went HAM on this concept and tore out 3 acres of lawn and replaced it with a native meadow (no HOA other than “no farm animals”). Not only do they have lots of beneficial insects (and zero mosquitoes!), but they also get the birds that eat the insects and the predators (foxes, birds of prey, snakes) that…

Better looking (imo)

This is a fantastic article. We are in the middle of a global mass extinction and replacing native species with non-native and invasive ones is a major factor in that.

LOL my kids are super close in age ...we would all get together on friday nights and put all the kids in the living room to play and we would hang out in the kitchen and have a couple drinks and just let it out. It was a huge savior of my sanity!

I am a mom, and it is obnoxious.

Did you try to reach out and interview either Hensley or Smedley for this story? They’re fairly accessible, and thoughtful, and I think would engage in good dialogue about the topics you brought up.

A girl I dated had one. It really wasn’t that bad for what it was. We parked on the beach and slept in the back of it with the seats folded down and were comfy. It was pretty reliable as far as I know.

General modern mommy culture is very obnoxious. These women are successful because they’re good at lampooning it.

I just meant the design, I’m aware they weren’t great cars overall.

Which, IMO, looked way better than the current Escape.

I go camping a fair bit, and it drives me nuts to see people treating national parks, which we’re really lucky to be allowed in camp in, treating them like dumping grounds. Rubbish, illegal fires, ‘glamping’ with diesel generators pouring out fumes... It’s really horrible. We always take out more rubbish than we bring…

It’s funny, because this scenario is basically Ford resurrecting the second generation Escape

You know if you lowered it, that would be pretty good looking. It’d also probably handle better. Get a bit better gas mileage too.

Or just don’t fuck up shit period.  

I did a lot of hiking/backpacking with Scouts in middle and high school. Our philosophy was “Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints, and kill nothing but vandals.”

I’ve seen the same thing in Southern California. There’s always been a certain amount of bad behavior, but the increase in aggressive, shameless bad behavior – people who know they’re being assholes, don’t care, and are eager to tell you to fuck off about it – is really distressing.

This girl I know got blasted by JoshuaTreeHatesYou, and let me tell you, I loved it. She closed the comments on her instagram, but left the photo up and didn’t apologize. She sucks.

Seriously, we’re just the worst. 

I agree - conservatives are all about sending people to their graves - preferably as early as possible - for profit - not the other way around