Children are definitely property in his worldview. It match conservative theology to a T.

Does anyone who reads Washingtonian Magazine actually live in DC? I’m pretty sure their readership is mostly 70 and lives in the ‘burbs. An ex-boyfriend’s mom gave me a subscription in my early 20s and first moved to DC. It was unrelated to my life. And yes, I am still here 20 years later. Far long than I’ve lived…

The father is indefensible. But they don’t get to hug him. That’s not how any of this works.

I suspect Chuck E. Cheese is probably the perfect example of what my mom always said about not comparing what other people spend. It falls into the category of things my parents considered too expensive that families with less money than we had did. Because it may have been a top of the line family splerge where as my…

Having a Chuck E. Cheese party of certain types of white parents is like begging all the other parents to criticize you.

To a stranger with no benefit to her. Sometimes there are donation chains where people are donating an organ to a stranger, but essentially doing it so that some other stranger donates to their loved one. Which again is still a good thing, but this is more amazing than that.

Do you not like the charity or what?

He definitely drew on black preaching conventions. But that’s becoming more common even in traditionally white churches.

Well, if I’m on the street and a wedding party is entering or leaving a church, I’ll take a look at them discreetly without getting in their way. I think there is an attraction to pretty people in “costumes” celebrating things. They do it on a grand scale. I’m not sure it’s much more complicated than that.

There will be a Hair Cuttery in Hill East over this woman’s dead body. Far too low rent and it’s a chain. She’ll bitch about a Starbucks too. She wants an indie coffee shop that looks almost exactly like Starbucks, but isn’t something so tacky as a chain.

Maybe, but I doubt it. Something like 4% of DC voted Trump. Even if every single one of them was a white woman, it’s still a tiny fraction of white women in DC. I’m entirely sure that this woman probably has a pro-tolerance yard sign based on the neighborhood.

This definitely is a quirk of genetics. I should by all rights have problems but don’t.

Yes, my thighs are not small and I don’t find this to be a problem. By not small I mean I have a BMI that is at the low end of obese. And I have easily irritated skin. It’s a quirk of genetics.

I’m old and single (43) and many years ago decided I’d have my sister stand up for me wearing something she picked out and then whatever children think it sounds fun. My girlfriends would do it and they’d say they were honored, but they wouldn’t have that much fun.

It’s also tradition. Plus, most women over a certain age don’t really want to be in anyone’s wedding wearing a dress they’d never pick themselves. But children often love the idea. (Unless they don’t.) If I could delight a child or make one of my friend’s suck it up and be nice, I’d rather delight a child.

Well that’s actually what happened before the Adoptions and Safe Families Act mentioned in the article. The rationale behind terminating parental rights was to give kids stability and permance by allowing them to adopted. 18 years of foster care sucks. It’s an imperfect law an and imperfect tool, but the point was…

Except they ignore lots of negative effects on children in this article. The Clinton era law that terminates parental rights is imperfect definitely, but it was passed because of the very real problem that some children spent their entire childhood with absolutely no stability at all because the system parental rights…

I was helping my “nephew” with an essay and it was painful. Incredible story, but PAINFUL to read a high school sophomore turning into cliche after cliche. His teacher must need a box of wine to grade.

Don’t be naked should be the whole code.

I had my cat for 19 years. Yesterday was the one year anniversary of his death at 21. I lived with that cat longer than anyone.