This is the most sensible take on DC snow behavior ever.

It doesn't surprise me that we don't have Midwest level snow removal equipment. We rarely need it. But yes, we have multiple day like today, every single winter. It's not the bid dig outs that get to me it's today's weather.

I’m pretty sure that *technically* they can’t hold her to the ethics rules not having been sworn in yet. But it’s definitely stated Members Elect are supposed to obey ethics/gift rules.

Can confirm. Someone smashed my window for diet Coke and a box of cleaning supplies.

That's pretty city specific. In DC they now route you to 911 for ANYTHING that even touches on the police. The whole non-emergency number thing is dead. I needed a police report because someone sideswiped my car, the directed me to 911. 

That would be my ideal, but I don't want to lead the youth group too. The movie is a treat for helping clean out the part of the church basement called "the dungeon" because of the dirt floor and canvernous nature. I think the idea was that it could be a treat and educational. But it sounds like not actually…

Do you all think that I’d be out of line suggesting that this might not be the best movie for my mostly white church youth group to see? I’d be all about them seeing an *actual* Black Lives Matter movie. Or reading the book. But I really don’t want them picking up the idea that these shootings of unarmed black men are…

Beaches is the exception that proves the rule. As a teenager, I loved the movie and so I was excited to see the book. Even as a teenager, I thought it was a terrible book. It's the only time ever I've seen that.

I’m not sure they would “bother” younger viewers, but I’m afraid that they will give some well meaning white kids the wrong idea. The way the incident is framed it looks much more like it could have been a tragic accident. It creates the idea that it’s really all just a tragic, but reasonable misunderstanding. It…

True. But at my office there isn't much yelling or dealing with only people's bodily fluids.

Every once and a while, some member of Congress will think that everyone in the federal government should do that. Then inevitably someone will point out that it means no one can get day care. It’s an option at my work, but almost no one does it regularly. (Sometimes people do it for a week or two if they are new and…

My grandmother thinks my brother-in-law is like the world’s greatest dad. And he is a great dad in that he has a really good connection with my niece, can be amazingly patient, but still firm with preschool shenanigans and that kind of thing. I don’t want to diminish that. But the reason she thinks he’s the worlds…

I think certain personalities need to make their job (whatever) it is to prove their worth.

And when the federal government was shut down like five years ago for three weeks, some of my friends who are working moms couldn’t wait to go back to work and had no idea how stay at homes did it. I suspect “easier” and “harder” are really personal to so many things. Someone I know posted an article by a mom who…

She's one of 9 children.

Does she also post memes about how mom’s are chef/nurse/teacher/CFO/etc and really deserve to be paid a billion dollars a year after adding full time salaries of all the jobs?

Me too! Or if I find I'm tearing through the book for the "who done it" fast enough that I'm missing the details, I'll go the end, so I catch more of how I get there.

So some people I know have been debating whether wearing a rubber Obama mask counts as black face? To me it seems like something that is likely enough to back fire that you just shouldn’t do it.

I call bullshit. I’m about Megyn Kelly’s age. And while there are some now highly embarrassing photos of me dressed in a kimono a white neighbor girl’s dad brought back from a business trip, at no point in my life would even the least socially aware members of my family not have said "that's racist!" to black face. 

If they were 45 year old middle managers, I probably would have cut them more slack on the engagement speed. But youngish, celebrities, just spell trainwreck.