Psst - 10 days of meds, a box of tampons and a menstrual cup if that’s still a thing for you. If you end up sharing the tampons or using them, no problem. Better to have and not need than need and not have. Cup because even if they’re not your normal preference, they’re still more comfortable in that situation.

If you’ve got a cat carrier, that’s where you assemble their kit. One gallon zip bag per cat, with 3 days of food (and a plastic spoon if canned food — let kitty clean the spoon, since a bugging out cat is likely to be scared, and hand feeding is both attention and comfort, and ensures that kitty is getting some…

Yep. I finally got off my ass and built our 10 day emergency kit and go bags. I will be perfectly happy if the food eventually goes to the food bank and I never open those bags except to switch out the glasses I’m currently wearing for last year’s pair currently in the bag.

Go over her head. Principal or superintendent. Especially since teacher is not being responsive to parents. If she’s not willing to defend her position to the parent of the child affected, how can you trust that she’ll talk to you when your child is having an academic issue?

I know Smother has a funeral plan — the stone, plot and funeral are paid for, with some level of design done, but whichever of my siblings loses the toss and ends up as her executor will probably take some inspiration from this. And Smother would adore it, because it would feed into her martyrdom. We’re such awful…

The stealing of Diné (Navajo) children was still on-going when I was in high school — in the late 80s. It was called “boarding” but my high school had dozens of children who were forcibly removed from their families and dropped into Mormon families and group homes rather than funding Nation schools. If those kids…

I strongly suggest tuning your ears, because Hamilton has a lot of words per minute — it’s vocally dense because that’s the nature of rap/hip-hip. If you’re not used to it, it can be overwhelming. Listening to disc one a few times helps that; or listening to some of the inspiration music (there are multiple playlists…

The problem with Phil McGraw is that he’s out of date — he got his doctorate when I was 3, so he’s been out of academic research for 40 years. (also, his thesis is entirely wrong, based on an obsolete theory, but I digress.) Computing power — for statistical analysis, to power fMRI, for biochemical analysis —…

I have certain professions to whom I give passes — I work with a number of neurosurgeons, several of whom have similar phobic responses. (Though neuros can be really, really asshatty anyway, so 6 of one, half-dozen of other.) I’d like to do away with handshakes entirely; we have other means of greeting, and in…

To Gorsuch. It’s such pathetic posturing — Frans de Waal talks about this with chimps all the time. The lower ranked ones do it, not the seniors, because the seniors are secure in their positions.

Yes, but it’s really hard. The Mango Mendacity seems to trend towards malignant narcissism, rather than psychopathy, which means he requires attention - positive or negative, doesn’t matter. They’re dual fuel. Which means ignoring him (antics, not policy) is the most effective strategy. Given the global platform, that…

Yes. There’s some pretty decent developmental psych research on the Cluster B personality disorders that posits they’re a spectrum of solipsism and a defective theory of mind. Mild narcissism and histrionic are an inability to recognize other people have perspectives, that then proceed through other people aren’t…

And men who don’t respect other men or women will limp fish their handshakes. That’s one of my better tells for dude is an asshole and not worth spending any time on. Men who limp fish women are generally entitled douches.

I agree — I’m not in Utah, but a nearby state that does joint training with UTDems — but that meeting? That was a very LDS audience, on a school night, that packed the house, and was willing to yell. That’s surprising for that district. I don’t think that seat can go blue, but I do think an independent or a primary…

But there’s no ice age in the Bible. Not before Noah, and that’s when the dinosaurs and the mammoths...

How fucking stupid do people have to be to fail to realize that their highly skilled, underpaid, migratory workforce is going to be the first on the chopping block? Because Ag labor is skilled labor, not something that a bunch of desperate, out of work suburbanites can learn in an afternoon. And not something a bunch…

Also, another short-fingered vulgarian.

She was 14 when she came here, in 1995 — so as a result of the Mexican peso crisis of December 1994, when the peso crashed in a 2008 style collapse, but without the US type bailout. (There was a bailout, but it was an IMF loan bailout that made the problem worse, because that’s how the IMF rolls.) She was a child —…

I finally watched Ghostbusters today. (Shit got weird last summer.) I enjoyed it so much, so much more than I liked the original. Science, and smart women getting the better of a 4chan luser and I am in love with Kate McKinnon.

They’ll still sell her junk (along with her dad’s easy D*) on the racks, because discount stores sell everything eventually, but they’re not marketing it as special. Now it’s just the overstock prior season crap that they always sell.