Beloved seasonal classic. Not to get all food snobby, but in my experience, the vast majority of people who dislike Thanksgiving turkey are the ones who don’t know how to cook it properly. Yes it takes a long time to make, this is why we only do it once a year. Not because it’s inferior to other foodstuffs. Brine it,…

Larsen’s book “Passing” deals with this in a way. I think it’s free on Kindle

It’s like the other major depressions and market collapses, just on a grander scale. Not everybody is affected the same, and the lucky ones barely notice anything has changed, except that there are more homeless people and protesters around.

“If everything was going to crap, would random cubicle drones still happily chat about crushing puss and jam out to Blues Traveler?”

Oh, fuck right off. No one else but a judge and jury are beholden to the “justice” system, to inform their opinion. Tons of shit doesn’t make it to court, for various unjust reasons. That doesn’t mean that everyone should go on pretending like these people aren’t sexual predators.

Yeah so anyway I believe Alice

No one should be able to amass that much wealth when 16 million children go hungry everyday or when 30+ million people still don’t have healthcare in the US.

Pretty sure that Offset has a greater networth than her. He also has longer career prospects. Cardi is no Nicki, I sincerely doubt she will have a longer mainstream career than that Gangnam Style guy.

Cardi, don’t you dare go through with this doomed wedding, everyone knows this isn’t going to take. What’s the rush? Make sure he signs a prenup.

It did immediately come off to me as #notallmen.

The whole thing was anti-misandry. It’s saying it’s silly to generalize about all men because of one man’s actions.

Are you for real? It’s not classism to think that a family who shows up with absolutely nothing - no stroller, no carseat, nothing to transport the baby in, are being negligent. ‘I’m sure they’ll do better next time’ isnt good enough where kids are concerned. that’s the point of these stories.

Okay, as someone who takes public transportation because I can’t afford the car, who sees families with strollers all the time on it, this isn’t classism. No. The bio family was being dumb and thoughtless with *weeks* of time to think of it and that doesn’t bode well for the baby.

Her point is that they didn’t bother to bring anything for the baby, like a stroller, or anything to carry all of the baby supplies the foster family was giving them. Even though they knew for weeks that they would be picking up the baby and her stuff. Common sense is pretty important when it comes to babies.

You don’t have to defend them. They got the baby, despite their total lack of preparation or common sense.

You are being willfully obtuse.

I keep reading these stories hoping to learn something and empathize, but I keep getting farther away from the conclusion I feel like I’m supposed to draw. The women are sad and depressed because of their feelings, not because of concern for their kids or what is best for them. As an adult, I went back and read the…

I’m sorry that happened to you and your kid. Tell your story to the writers here. The stories reported here are just not clear cut. I believe you and stories like your need to be told. It’s just troubling that the stories they have feature so far are not convincing.   

I know I’m meant to be horrified by this government overreach, but sofar I haven’t read a story in which I would want the officials to act substantially differently. Could they be nicer? Sure. But do you really want an official investigating a baby with an unexplainable skull fracture to drop it? “Oh well! This 7…

The top story is the first one in this entire series that didn’t nauseate me and make me feel like we were supposed to sympathize with child abuse.