One way to get the message across is for all the staffers to just quit.

I’m guessing, considering the sudden appearance as an approved commenter, and the replies all up and down this section, that this is probably Tomato.

...at which point it will be entirely useless because it will have lost its value to workers even more than it already has.  Pegging to inflation doesn’t help because it simply locks in their losses.  They will need to bring it to a minimum of $19/hour by that time--maybe even more.

No.  The kids eat what you make for them.  If they don’t want to eat it, that’s fine.  They just get to wait until the next meal.  It works and it works very well.

Most of your replies are assiduously avoiding the reality that the medical community has finally come to terms with the fact that suggesting parents not introduce food items such as peanuts until they are at least two years old was actually causing them to develop the allergy. There was a recent recommendation to stop…

I think what YOU want is called a prostitute. Which is fine! That should be legal! Just don’t pretend you’re trying to actually *date* anyone.

Read the article.  It’s made perfectly clear that the motive is entirely the meal.

(No matter that the article mentions men do this too.)

A few other things:

Thank you.  This is great info.

Funny.  I grew up in Wisconsin and have never heard of this drink.

So, knowing nothing about how this piece works, are you saying that by initiating impeachment against the President, the House committees have more power to get the information they need from the Cabinet? What’s the difference in effectiveness between a non-impeachment investigation (which various House committees do…

I would have THOUGHT the Read ID system would require current ID photos, but apparently not.

I once had a car that had the pedals so close together that my foot had a tendency to miss the brake entirely and hit the clutch or, far more often, graze the brake pedal while I was going for the clutch.  But, never once did I mistake the gas for the damned brake.

Friendly reminder: there’s Medicare, and then there’s Medicare Advantage, which fucking sucks because it’s administered by for-profit companies which have been scamming taxpayers in fraudulent charges for tens of billions of dollars since 2003.  If you, or a relative, are about to get to that magical Medicare age, be…

They can investigate without impeachment. That’s...a huge part of how they are structured. The only thing impeachment will do, besides rally every single Republican—even the so-called “respectable” ones—behind Trump, is give a few people some good feels. At least until the post-impeachment numbers come in.…

Impeachment is pointless when the outcome from the Senate is certain.  That doesn’t mean that the House shouldn’t investigate the shit out of the Trump administration, and Trump himself, in every committee and sub-committee, through 2020.  They can actually make shit happen there. 

Yeah, as someone who was an actual, honest-to-God independent contractor for many years, it’s an incredibly expensive way to make a living.  When I’d finally had enough of it, and went back to wage-based work, I took a job that paid just over half of what my previous billing rate was--and was actually better off…

45 minutes?!  Shit, that’s light-speed.

You weren’t being clear with your question.