She’s a columnist bro. That’s literally what she does. She’s paid to have an opinion.

Yes. I have a crazy sweaty face and it’s terrible. I used to be a reporter in south Louisiana and I would have to interview people outdoors in the dead of summer with sweat pouring down my face. Not a good look for a professional lady.

I am legitimately worried about this. I want to have kids someday, and yet sometimes I have to take a break from cleaning up cat barf to dry heave over the sink. A baby might kill me.

I grew up on the beach. I have been crapped on and had my food stolen more times than I can count. But it’s hard not to feel bad for little curry gull...

Yeah. Seriously. When I baby sat in the 1990s that’s what I was told to do. I mean, it was no fun and quickly turned me off of babysitting actual babies vs. kids, but I thought it was normal.

I dunno about people just AirBnBing to go on a traditional vacay, but my hometown is a small Gulf Coast beach town that is chock-o-block full of AirBnB rentals (most in neighborhoods side by side with full time residents). You better believe people are renting those beach houses to party.

Yeah, I feel you. I’m a salaried manager making $49K.

I used to work at a newspaper and they pretty much did this. We were hourly, so we were required to be paid overtime but harassed endlessly by management about using it, even though we were constantly understaffed and no one could do their jobs in a 40 hour week. At some points this led the younger staffers to work…

Animals, especially big ones, can cover a lot of ground in the time it takes a tranq to work. And obviously getting hit with one can make them pretty pissed. I had to work with some Wildlife and Fisheries agents who were trying to relocate a black bear that was hanging out in a suburban neighborhood and they never…

I wonder if it comes back around again, because the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the Bush years actually made my pretty conservative mom loop back around and become a Democrat in her 60s.

:( That’s sad. I have some friends who did a reverse and went from casual Catholics to super devout anti-birth control Catholics carefully studying Theology of the Body after their eight-year-old son suddenly drowned to death at a pool party. People find different answers, I guess.

Yeah, Dawkin is kind of a butthole and I’d rather not be associated with him.

My mom was very devout, so I had a lot of conflict with her. Eventually I just kind of came to terms with the fact that the church is a social structure that brings a lot of comfort and aid to people and that’s okay. My mom has had a lot of tragedy in her life, as her dad died young and her own mother had a mental…

Same. I grew up in the church but it never felt quite right to me. Most of my struggle was in accepting that it was okay for me to not “get” Christianity when it seemed to work for everyone else. But I imagine people’s beliefs can probably continue to alter into adulthood as they experience things like divorce, death…

yeaaaah this rubbed me the wrong way a little bit. ADHD medication is already a super highly controlled substance in a lot of states and is really hard to get for the people that need it. My boyfriend has terrible ADHD that almost ruined his life before he got on medication but he can only get single 30-day scripts…

Yeah I get what you’re saying. I just thought that book was the first one that started going completely off the rails for me. I enjoyed the first half but the second half with slave magic, Mr. Willoughby, murderers, Geillis’ plot, pirates, shipwrecks, random drunk priests, etc etc. I was like is this even the same…

Dear God I hope they cut Mr. Willoughby. He is THE WORST. Pretty racist and I think they could excise him from the plot without much harm. Is there anyone really clamoring for a foot-fetish obsessed drunken Chinese stereotype that trains a pelican to fish for him?

I also have a fairly offbeat name (first name has a variety of spellings, last name is uncommon). There’s on woman on the internet who shares my name and from what I can tell her life is very different than mine. I like to think we mutually annoy each other with our pollution of the other’s Google results.

Yeah that was weird. I could get if they all wear similar robes and maybe a necklace, but almost the exact same shit down to the hairdo? Are we supposed to think it’s a glamour they all use?? Seems to diminish the value of using a glamour if they all look alike.

Man I think the next book is kinda nuts. I’m not sure I’d advise people it’s better. My little sister has been thrown for a loop this season with all the time and location jumping and the full-throttle ramming through plot points and I could only be like, “Well, next book shit gets even more cray?”