Yep. In DC some people talk about The Plan. Now, many/most of the gentrification related things from The Plan have or are happening. But people refer to The Plan in ways that I find ridiculous. Like I do not believe that DC’s tax on impervious surfaces like parking lots that pays for sewer replacement was specifically…

I feel like some of this is complicated by the use of tavern. I can think of two places that have tavern in the name that are really restaurants. They are filled with people ordering meals. Just drinks is rare. At least one of them has high chairs and crayons.

This is largely pointless, but every time I see this story I wonder if Trump was ordering Tillerson to each Tillerson’s salary or Trump and Tillerson’s salary.

That was covered in the report as well. It may have been an intentional sales technique.

It’s definitely completely normal to make your kids aware of your values. When the President tees up numerous opportunities on a virtually daily basis to point out how his values differ from yours, it’s abnormal not to point that out. If for example you don’t think calling Senator Warren Pocahontas is ok, saying that…

Right? I mean I can’t see any of the adoptive parents I know getting upset if their children (as adults) ended up being the logical person to decide about the remains of a birth parent. I mean I will do that for someone I’m not related to, but to go court and fight over doing that for a dead murderer, seems icky.…

If you mean Congress is coming around, perhaps. If you mean residents of DC, absolutely not.

I do not understand this. You can teach your kids to respect the office of the Presidency AND that it’s their duty as a citizen not to vote for fucking racist dotards. You can teach them dissent can be patriotic. I mean my parents thoughts about Ronald Reagan were crystal clear. They were not fans. And yet I still had…

Definitely. I mean I hope not because she’s someone I know from church, but I wouldn’t rule it out.

My problem is that Mallory wants grace for self that she’s unwilling to extend to others. She’s made some comments about Jews being good with money and gotten mad when she was called anti-Semitic. She claims it was just ignorance from her upbringing. But she’s not willing to acknowledge that someone using a positive…

Except she thinks Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil qualify as experts in their field.

Seriously. The woman who cleans my house sent me a text telling me she found $10 and exactly where she left it. It had fallen out of a pocket and stolen by the cat. It seemed like it rattled her.

In my very white family, when you get caught like this you shrug and say “I’m a reader, not a talker” while wishing the floor would open up to swallow you.

Don’t worry, you aren’t alone.

As a white woman, I find this fascinating. My father stored silver change in Crown Royal bag to use on toll roads in the days before EZ Pass. On road trips it sat in the center console. Because no way was he waiting to hand someone bills and get change.

Veep is so real it’s scary.

Exactly. Super Racist kids aregoing to racist, but it’s not like this was an extemporaneous speech. There should have been plenty of chances to pull the plug.

Yep! It’s like maybe her life experience was worth something and I didn’t know it all as a pre-teen.

In the mid-80s when I would have done anything for a pair of Guess jeans, my mother refused to buy them because she thought their NYT magazine ads were about one step removed from kiddie porn. Like most things, I have to admit she was probably right. (Also, I’m realizing she was my age then.)

It’s the Capital One Area. I still want to call it the MCI Center.