Under normal circumstances, sure, but this was someone from the Trump administration going nuclear on a batshit conservative outlet, and that seems noteworthy.

Do we think they’re still talking? I mean, maybe they have one of those deeply adversarial relationships where they just absolutely love to argue with each other, but IDK. I feel like it’s more likely that they almost never see each other, barely speak when they do, and the kids are just trying desperately to hang on…

Exactly. At my last job, the company had been basically just not replacing people who left for years. “Oh, Janice is retiring? We’ll just redistribute her duties to everybody else in the department and everything will carry on just fine, right?” Then the company got sold to a venture capital firm whose first edict was…

No. I’m white and I like a fair amount of music with that word in it and I just either come up with another word to sing in place of it (“baby” works well in lots of scenarios), or skip over it. It really isn’t that hard.

Oh, god, someone’s going to write that book in the next five years, aren’t they. 

I think we can all comfortably say that good judgement is not Justin Bieber’s strong suit.  In any area.

I think in this case it was more that it wasn’t about the money. It seems like she wanted to be Steve Jobs--she based her whole look and a lot of her mannerisms on him (to say she’s a little off would be putting it mildly). The money was really only useful as a marker of whether she was succeeding. 

Yeah, that’s the really weird thing: I keep seeing cranky posts about gender reveal parties where the writers talk about them like they’re gift grabs but I have literally never heard of one where gifts were expected or given. The two that I’ve been to was basically just a cook out with drinks, a minute where everyone…

If you read the book Bad Blood, which is all about Theranos, it is sort of admirable how long she was able to keep this all going, how easily she pretended that the company’s setbacks were actually successes, and just the hubris of the whole thing. I mean, she ruined a bunch of people’s careers and some people’s…

That was one of Dante’s circles of hell, wasn’t it?

Or even just not gone to college. Lots of people don’t go to college either because they can’t afford it or because they don’t want to, and while life might be harder or their earning potential reduced, they often go on to live full lives. And let’s be honest here: she has wealthy, successful, connected parents. They…

I heard someone complaining the other day about college students and they kept saying “these fucking Millennials” and I was like, “Wait, unless you’re talking about non-traditional students, undergrads are not Millennials anymore. They’re Gen-Z or whatever we’re calling them, but they’re not Millennials.”

Years ago, my husband and I looked up the sex offender registry for our town and discovered that his grandmother’s boyfriend was on there for “assault of a child under the age of 13.” His grandmother at the time had custody of her 11 and 9 year old granddaughters (my husband’s cousins). My husband immediately called…

Better yet, don’t fuck that guy. 

I think there’s this weird idea that a lot of us—kinky and vanilla alike—tend to have is that relationships are best if you have corresponding kinks. Sure, that makes things simpler. But one thing that I (a vanilla person) have discovered in being married to my husband (a kinky person) is that kinks can be a lot of…

That quote was amazing to me, too. I love how when poor people are like, “I don’t have enough money to pay for health care,” there’s always some conservative pundit ready to say, “I see you own a 1998 Toyota Corolla. You can sell that to go to the doctor. You’re just trying to scam the government into paying your…

Interestingly, state schools are well represented when you look at the schools CEOs of the top 100 Fortune 500 companies attended (this list only included people who graduated from college—it didn’t count CEOs who attended but did not graduate). Four attended Texas A&M, three attended the University of Michigan, three…

It’s such a bad plan. I get what it’s trying to do, but it sounds like a.) an administrative headache (can you imagine the form that will require to take advantage of the program? Can you imagine the people who are going to have to go through the form to decide whether or not the applicant is eligible to have her…

Thing I have said to my toddler: “Ugh, no, don’t lick the dog. No, don’t lick me either!”

At the grocery store a while ago, I was standing behind a mom and her elementary school aged kid and the kid was kind of stage-whispering some questions about a man with some facial scars nearby. The mom looked at her kid and said, “It’s probably not really any of our business, is it. Just because you’re curious…