THIS. She is clearly not a fit parent if she’s using her kids to recruit victims. Poor moms live in fear of getting their children taken away for letting them go to the park alone, but this lady makes her kid an accessory to her crime and gets to keep them? Bullshit.

I tend to take on these issues by saying something direct but very short, like “Or maybe that’s not really her goal.” Or just giving them the eyebrow. Usually shuts it down, though I’d love if it ever led to a real conversation.

Well, the people who really feel like their jobs are at risk probably didn’t go to college, but I think it’s a fair point nonetheless. If Americans (or even legal immigrants) were clamoring for the jobs commonly worked by illegal immigrants the whole thing would have a lot more traction.

The Page/Cruz incident is also a great illustration of how we all spin things to suit our own narrative. Just take a glance around at the headlines:

Can I promote this like 20x? This comment covers so much of what is ever written on this site—men whining about women in the workplace, republicans claiming illegals are stealing their jobs and raping their women, christians feeling persecuted. It works for everything.

In her situation, delusion is absolutely a form of self-preservation. How do you accept that the person you loved most in the world, who you committed to sticking with, who supports you financially, who your entire social circle and life really revolve around, is this horrible predatory assailant, the stuff of other…

Some of that looks like legitimate exercise (stationary bikes, something that seems similar to a rowing machine, etc.) even if it looks like they could do with turning the resistance up a notch or five. Some of the rest of it looks very similar to the foam rollers everyone’s going on about these days. I don’t think…

I’m sorry you have to deal with that in your family life. I don’t know if I’m lucky or have done a really good job of keeping that sort of guy away, but I’m lucky enough not to have them in my life. I think pretty much everything about my attitude repels those guys, but I can’t imagine if my dad was one of them.

I guess my question on this is, what exactly would be sufficient to provoke that sort of dismissive, sexist, and personal attack on a colleague? None of the topics mentioned, no matter how much they disagree on them, sound like provocation to me.

Grad school really is a different animal, especially in the STEM fields. Those free rides are usually attached to research, teaching, or some combination of the two, and are supported by huge companies that benefit directly from relationships with the program in question. There are fields in which applicants just flat…

That was my hope as well... I love coffee, I love pumpkin (and pumpkin spice, which yes I understand is a different piece of the pie as it were), I SHOULD love pumpkin spice lattes. But every year I think “ooooh, yum!” and order one, and promptly realize that what I really want is 1/3 of a pumpkin spice latte and 2/3…

Not a favorite yet, but I really want to try this one. Just have to wait until it’s not 90+ degrees out! http://minimalistbaker.com/simple-pumpkin…

Hold me close, young Tony Danza...

I’m so sorry you’re having to go through this, but it sounds like you’re handling it as well as can be. Good on you for supporting him, but taking care of yourself first.

Cat time is some of the best time! Design kitty is laying happily nearby (as is her won’t—she prefers to keep me in sight but out of reach at most times), as I do product research for planned home improvements and watch old episodes of Grey’s. This is definitely my happy space.

When my husband and I moved in together, we were combining homes and moving just to a new neighborhood, so we basically planned to do most of the move by packing boxes into our cars every morning on the way to work, dropping by the new place on the way home, rinse and repeat until we’re done. OK, so I was dropping by…

Go for it, both of them, all the way!

yeah my first neuro exam after a rough bike accident just confused me, I was like “what, this is how you check if my brain’s ok???? this is really the best way to do it?!” Also it didn’t even touch on the one thing that actually did turn out to be a problem for me, which was linking up my vocabulary with my speech.

Heck, I thought it was common practice to give the bridesmaids a gift these days, not the other way around!

I assure you that many people feel very differently about it than you do. Additionally you are confusing ‘fat’ with ‘heavy,’ and there are many people whom you would be surprised how heavy they are, that don’t look like bodybuilders or anything that would immediately explain it.