I asked my husband (who has a Ph.D. and works in academia) who would include Ph.D. in their title outside academic settings or has people call them Dr. and his response was “dicks.”

Right after Michele Obama’s portrait was unveiled, CBS Sunday Morning had a feature on Amy Sherald and I was pretty much in tears because her story is amazing. Not only was she “flat broke” but she had a heart transplant like 4 years ago. So while I don’t think the portrait totally looks like MO, it’s representative…

Right after Michele Obama’s portrait was unveiled, CBS Sunday Morning had a feature on Amy Sherald and I was pretty much in tears because her story is amazing. Not only was she “flat broke” but she had a heart transplant like 4 years ago. So while I don’t think the portrait totally looks like MO, it’s representative…

If anyone wonders what the Trump family would have been like without the inherited empire and connections, here ya go. They are all (Palins and Trumps) dumb as dirt fame whores with no actual skills, life or otherwise.

If anyone wonders what the Trump family would have been like without the inherited empire and connections, here ya go. They are all (Palins and Trumps) dumb as dirt fame whores with no actual skills, life or otherwise.

I’m from Nebraska and some very close family friends have known his parents since childhood. That area of Nebraska isn’t really crazy fundie land (I live in TX, I know crazy fundie), most people around there are run of the mill Methodists and Lutherans. The college he went to was a Lutheran college. My friends are…

I’m from Nebraska and some very close family friends have known his parents since childhood. That area of Nebraska isn’t really crazy fundie land (I live in TX, I know crazy fundie), most people around there are run of the mill Methodists and Lutherans. The college he went to was a Lutheran college. My friends are…

They still rely heavily on tuition and fundraising, schools don’t want to dip into their endowment, they use only the income. They have a freshman class number they want to hit, if they don’t, they have to raise more money or dip into endowment. And they are not a Research I University so they aren’t bringing in…

And it’s 4 years not 3.

And it’s 4 years not 3.

I wouldn’t want 14 kids, I think it would be chaos. But I also think judging someone’s choice to have biological children over “just adopting” or becoming a foster parent is bullshit. Neither of those things are easy or the right choice for everyone, supporting reproductive choices means supporting all choices, not…

I’ve never watched the show or heard of these people. But I’m going to really going to get into this when it’s a serial podcast because the only logical ending to this whole crazy pants story is someone is dead.

My book club read it last year and it was pretty frightening to see the parallels to the current environment. I didn’t love it though, I felt like it kind of dragged and the end felt too hurried.

Also, if I recall during the election cycle when Patrick was running for Lt. Gov there were some negative campaign ads that featured him shirtless and I’m still traumatized. It’s like the male republican politicians in Texas are having a contest to see who can literally be the world’s worst human being and they’re all…

People are very quick to identify kids who are ostracized by their peers as being “bullied.” My husband has his PhD in school psychology and works in academia and has worked extensively in schools. His viewpoint is that very often ostracized kids ARE the bullies, peers often ostracize the kids who are assholes. From a…

I was reading a book with a fox in it to my 4 year old recently (The Amazing Bone) and my mom remarked that just based on children’s books, you’d assume foxes were fairly large and ferocious creatures. Then you see one and you’re like - THAT’S a fox? It’s interesting the portrayal foxes consistently get in children’s…

Or people who are too ignorant to realize that they will be affected by “shaking things up” like all the people in Medicaid expansion states who actually need Medicaid. Or people who have insurance through the Affordable Care Act.

If you haven’t watched John Mulaney’s “horse in a hospital” bit it’s such a good analogy for Trump. He compares Trump to a horse in a hospital. It’s never happened, we can’t wait to see what the horse will do next. But when he asks people who held the door open for the horse why they did they say “because the hospital…

Where I live (Austin), it’s pretty much anyone. I only hire older teenagers with a few years of experience and their own transportation and adults and I pay $15 an hour. A lot of them use care.com so they see what the market is paying but babysitters are so in demand they have the upper hand, a younger teenager could…

Is there a burpee governing body that has set the standard for what a burpee is? It’s not like it’s something established for Olympic competition with strict parameters, it’s a fitness test some guy made up 80 years ago that people have been doing. Like a jumping jack or a lunge. I had no idea how many burpee pedants…