All based on supporting a narrative and/or clicks. Relevance is ironically irrelevant in the calculus. Consistency? Hahhahahahah!!

This is some great marketing for Ballers, shouldn't it be tagged as sponsored?

How intense was the editorial meeting before you agreed you would run a post saying “We believe the NFL is being totally above board here.”

Jezzies, I was given a name sign this week! I was accepted into my university’s American Sign Language interpreting program this spring but receiving a name sign is almost more exciting than that. It’s a marker of group membership into the Deaf community and should only be given to a hearing non-native signer by…

Adobo!

Adobo! I’m excited. But I went to school with a lot of Filipino people and got used to all their families cooking amazing food, so while this will be good, it’s never as good as when someone’s grandma makes it.

I’m sorry you’re having a rough time. I've noticed that when your job sucks it can make a lot of things suck.

Some people are just true psychopaths who get off on the idea of deceiving and hurting others. They are literally incapable of feeling empathy, shame, or remorse. It doesn’t make sense to normal human beings because normal human beings don’t look at the world the way psychopaths do - in their heads, everyone but them…

Totally agree. Morality aside, it just seems exhausting to keep this con going for 9 months. I always think the same about men who have entire secret 2nd families. Who has time and energy for that?

it’s not a whole post on animals but here’s a pic of what i woke up to this morning. I hope it helps

Here's my kitten sleeping. Does that help?

Yeah, and the amazing thing was, it was entirely her idea. We had stayed in touch with her after our first son’s birth, and she knew we were trying to adopt again. After that match I mentioned above failed, my wife called to tell her about it, and after they talked for a while, she just goes, “Have you guys ever…

Cruelty + Money = Con-game

Aren’t the kids encouraged by MTV to “catfish” these days?

SO GROSS. As you say, most of them are just trolls, since actually being a scam artist requires a modicum of intelligence. Not basic humanity, but intelligence. That doesn’t let them off the hook for being horrible, but they are both horrible and stupid.

It did, thankfully. We eventually met a wonderful birthmom who gave us our first son, then volunteered to act as surrogate for our second one.

Not necessarily. Some people latch on to the “movement” because they recognize it’s a GREAT way to inflict intense emotional suffering on strangers. I would argue that such people make up an enormous percentage of people involved in these kinds of “movements,” if not an outright majority. They don’t think them up,…

This is not new. Mrs. iElvis and I dealt with it when we were trying to adopt our first kid around 1999. Being online gives you much greater exposure to potential birthmoms, but also to potential scammers and attention whores. In our experience, the latter are for more prevalent.

I am at a loss. Some people are just monsters.