Also, once it becomes something that’s accessible to more than just billionaires, their buddies, and a handful of people who have earned doctorates in the hard sciences and trained for years, will there be enough interest to sustain the kind of development that will lower the cost? I mean, it’s not really... anything.…

I read Harry Potter as an adult when my kids were old enough that we could read them together. I get why people love the books so much and I can admire Rowling’s ability to put out quality writing even after becoming wildly popular but, damn, there is A LOT of problematic stuff in there. The fatphobia alone was really…

I’m going to guess that her baseline need for attention is really high. She’s probably exhausting in person. I wonder how many people there are who she is authentically friends with. Like, when things are going well for her, there are probably people who want to hang out with her so that they’ll get exposed to her…

I was thinking the same thing. A pox on both their houses, honestly.

All the people I know who ditched Facebook for Parler were back within a couple of weeks, and a few of them admitted that they just got bored because it was just a total echo chamber/circle jerk. Without liberals to make mad, it was no fun. 

For someone like him, the goal is not to win. The goal is not even to be the nominee. The goal is to get a lot of media attention, spend a lot of time on Fox News, lose but claim that you only lost because someone else cheated and would have won if they didn’t, then add “presidential candidate” to your CV before…

My doctor transposed two numbers in my insurance member number on a bill for my yearly exam (definitely covered by insurance). The insurance company (obviously) denied it. When my doctor made me aware of the problem, I gave them my correct member number and they resubmitted the bill. Whereupon, the insurance company…

She probably does not, nor does the widow, but it might be charged against the estate. If the dad left behind significant assets that were intended to be left to the children, it makes sense to fight these bills before they eat up the entire inheritance.

Years ago, I took my daughter to an urgent care. I paid the $30 copay there. Two weeks later I get a bill for a second $30 copay. Why? Because the doctors at that urgent care are actually part of a different practice, so it’s a separate charge. Sure, it’s only $30 (although there have been times in my life when an…

Years ago, my husband and I had a dog that we got as a puppy. She was high strung from the beginning, but we figured we could work with it. Unfortunately, it just got progressively worse. She began reacting to everything. By the time she was three or so, we couldn’t have her around any man except my husband, any…

I feel like a lot of couples get a decade or two into a marriage and it just kinda...fizzles. Like, nothing’s terrible, but it’s not great, either. A generation or so ago, they’d probably get separate beds, maybe separate bedrooms, and mostly just lead separate lives. But now that there’s not much stigma about…

Probably, although maybe it’s one of those situations where Ellen was telling Courtney, “Oh, yeah, we have the closing next month and then I’m going to have to find something short term but, you know, such a hassle,” and Courtney was like, “Oh my gosh, don’t do that. My house has, like, ten bedrooms. You can have the…

Yes. Cosigned. Can we please give our male characters emotional reasons to pursue a cause that do not involve a woman being assaulted and/or dying? 

And they don’t want the government subsidizing childcare because then those poor kids will be better able to compete with their kids and they can’t have that. This is all about preserving privilege that comes with generational wealth. 

My aunt and uncle both have the same first initial. I don’t want to list the family’s real names so imagine that their names are Stephen and Suzanne. Then they have a daughter and name her Sarah. Then they have a son and name him Silas. Then they get a dog and name it Scout. Then they have another daughter and name…

When I was in 9th grade, a friend of mine invited me to come to a dance at her school (I knew a few other kids that went there). I wasn’t in the room five minutes, when this guy beelined over to me and introduced himself. My friend and a couple other girls pulled me aside and basically said, “Do not, under any…

Still not as terrifying as Matt Gaetz

I feel like that was one of the problems with Lafayette on True Blood. In the book series, he’s killed off in the second book, but he was such a great character and Nelsan Ellis was so wonderful in that role, that they kept him around. Except, they never seemed to figure out what to do with him. So, he always kind of…

Thank you! I was reading an article about him the other day and the author (a man) talked about how Gaetz has always attracted a lot of attention because he is one of the few legislators who is “young, single, and handsome”, and ever since then I’ve been concerned that there’s something wrong with me because I find…

The thing is, while I haven’t actually read the series of novels that this show is based on, usually with these kinds of series the main couple in one book kind of... fade away for following books. They might be referenced, they might show up at a dinner party for a second as a “hey, remember how sexy they were…