7.9 % on federal student loans? Jesus Fucking Christ, I think I paid 4ish in 2001. It was a historic low when I consolidated them.

Yes, you are. Stop pretending to be an expert on something you clearly know nothing about.

Vox and somewhat surprisingly Christianity Today also did good ones (same author) that explored reasons beyond money that keeps some women low key in them. Like they aren't really making money but they aren't really losing cash either. Basically, being a SAHM generally doesn't give you the kind of immediate semi…

I think of mob enforcer types.

Yes, my cat lived to 21. My friend's have a 17 year cat that is failing and it's hard to watch.

When Grumpy Cat and Lil' Bub first became famous, there were lots of people who wanted cats just like them. And I'm all for special needs kitties getting love and what they need to live their best kitty lives. (I did cat blood sugar testing and insulin for over two years.) But people were talking about intentionally…

In general, whoever is in charge of cat health, needs to make them more durable. Watching elderly kitties fail is hard and depressing.

Look, I think that tweeting about this woman was really shitty behavior. But you are just wrong about how WMATA works and the zeal with which people have been fined. It's a not a "policy" it's part of the DC code, which they've only recently stopped enforcing.

Not arresting people anymore is not really the same as allowing something. That actually matters because jerks can still abuse their authority.

Do a little Googling. It definitely used to be be a thing that happened regularly enough to scare lots of people. It was inconsistent and I'm sure racist but very real.

It’s completely true. Transit police would arrest people. It was inconsistent and insane but true. Also see https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/metro-transit-police-arrest-teenager-for-carrying-chips-and-lollipop-into-station/2016/10/19/1360a014-9627-11e6-bb29-bf2701dbe0a3_story.html

It’s not a rule it’s an actual law. They used to arrest people for it. Which doesn’t make any of this ok. But many people commenting are wildly under estimating how this used to be enforced.

Actually, illegal. Transit police *arrest* people for it regularly. Which doesn't make this is, especially since Metro wasn't giving her time to eat.

And I wasn't allowed to watch All in the Family because Archie Bunker was a racist. 

I didn't know that. It makes sense.

For people of a certain age, I don't think exposure to like 8 million Dukes of Hazzard re-runs helped. It was huge when I was very young and it's one of those things my parents decided wasn't worth the fight with a five year old. But also strikes me as a bit incongruous with literally every other television rule they…

I'm old. I got chicken pox in preschool as one often did in those days. My one of my friends was sent to stay with her grandparents because everyone assumed she would get chicken pox. Her sister was getting chemo. Chicken pox might have killed her. So yes, I didn't get very sick, but it could have deadly for a friend.…

I'm not going to lie both Beto and Mayor Pete give me very strong "Poli Sci Guy" vibes. Only unlike the the ones I went to college with they didn't end up in advertising or consulting.

I keep trying to figure out if no representation of indigenous people is worse than bad, culturally insensitive representations. Like is this white washing better or worse than Little House on the Prairie which is just flat out racist.

I have to admit that the scandal made me check the show out. It’s the perfect Netflix on my phone on the elliptical show. I don’t get sufficiently into that I slow done while watching. It captures enough attention to distract me from counting minutes, but not so much that I slow down or care/get lost if I miss…