Yep. I’ve become the power of attorney to an older woman from my church with no family. I can only basically do it because my job is pretty flexible and my bosses are cool, so they let me take vacation time on no notice when she had a fall so I could go check on her. There are going to be lots more people like that.

It’s pretty solid social science. It’s one reason we see campaigns pushing people to talk more about abortions. It’s tricky because I think no one owes anyone else their story, but not talking about it increases shame. A solid number of abortions are chosen by married women with one or more kids.

That’s how I feel about dumb stuff out of schools. There are lots of schools. They are pretty decentralized. Lots of people are dumb. You can usually find an example of any variety of dumbness that exists. Like even though there is a TON of inappropriate religious behavior in school, I’m also completely confident that…

I’m not sure it’s “easier.” I think it’s that a certain kind of privileged woman is often spearheading the debate. It’s the kind of person woman who doesn’t understand things are issues unless she has personally experienced them. She’s the kind of person who thinks that motherhood has made her more compassionate when…

If you want robust paid family leave plans, they can’t just include parent/child care giving. They need to include care for elderly parents and other people that don’t fit into nuclear family buckets. This is both a practical strategy and reflects the actual needs of the world.

It’s not *now.* It’s been the official position of the government since at least the 90s. It might not make lots of sense, but it’s not new.

The acting deputy director of the Census Bureau is black.

So the citizenship thing is definitely new, but the rest of this has been under discussion for more than 10 years. In close coordination with groups like the NAACP and the National Council of La Raza. Some of this would have made more sense if the OMB, which makes the final call on how racial is officially collected,…

But the whole Kentucky Derby is one big orgy of Southern Plantation Culture. Moving to Kentucky was like being surrounded by all the things I had been told were not ok. It was wierd.

But the problem is law and public policy has a hard time operating in that gray area. The rule can’t be “guardians are eligible for compensation unless it’s Brittany Spears family.”

It’s super sticky, but at the same time, handling someone else’s affairs does take time and money. I’ve had to take over for an elderly woman with no family in a nursing home.

And yet they do, very, very loudly.

I’ve given unsolicited parenting advice once and been really tempted once.

There was at least one armoured vehicle, but it was pretty far on the edge and pretty clearly parked in a way that it was to prevent a car ramming the crowd. I feel like is a basic police responsibility.

I realize that you consider all the kids white, but they don’t all consider themselves white. No one I know who identifies as Latinx or Asian considers themselves white. They all acknowledge that it is different than being black, but not the same as being white. I suspect that the way they identify matters.

Right because people who aren’t religious never sell their children to pedophiles. Except for all the times they do.

I don’t think it’s petty, but you might give her a couple months. Sometimes people cling hard to what the known in the immediate aftermath and change later. It’s almost like a shock reaction.

It’s more like people didn’t think. DC has an incredibly old sewer system. Modern sewer systems separate storm water run off and waste sewage. When really heavy rains come, it’s overwhelmed and starts dumping stuff into the river which is bad when it is mixed with human waste. Things like parking lots contribute…

My brother in law didn’t see it until he was a guy in his late 30s with a toddler daughter. He was horrified. No horrified enough to risk a toddler melt down on a cross country flight, but horrified enough to say it’s not available on any streaming service anymore and that you can’t buy it. I give it a year before my…

I hope no one does. I mean I want to know. But is a kid and does deserve some privacy.