I’m with some others on this thread — what are your options for coasting? (taking steps to incrementally lighten your workload / weekly hours and treating the improvement in work / life balance the same way you’d treat an increase in pay / position). I did this a while back, and it turned out to be the best career…

A few years ago I was in an unhappy spot in my career. I had a lot of job security but found the work sort of soul-crushing. After some deliberation I went to my manager and asked to be shifted to a 32-hour work week so I could pursue other interests while still filling the niche role I had at work. Luckily, my…

I think the stigma surrounding miscarriage leads to it being kept more secret than it should be - the same as abortion. A much larger percentage of pregnancies in in miscarriage than common knowledge would have you believe.

If that’s your takeaway, you sorely missed the point.

It’s terrorism because of the clear and unambiguous ideological motivation, backed up by written and vocal statements.

Single-action revolver is not semiauto.

Or just clarify what it means. Does the second amendment mean I have a right to keep a spare bedroom full of recoilless rifles, grenade launchers, and belt-fed weapons with bump stock modifications?

Limiting ammunition capacity mitigates that issue, even if you do have people who play ‘find the legal loophole’. Hard to spray’n’pray into a crowd when your weapon only has 3-5 round capacity.

It’s pretty simple. Set criteria, and anything that satisfies X out of Y criteria is considered an assault weapon.

Dude. Ugh.

You’re either deliberately choosing to misinterpret his statement as indicating that he considers ‘ordinary Americans’ to be distinct from blacks / gays / women / etc. — which is disingenuous to the point of being almost malicious toward your readership — or you actually believe it, in which case you’re an idiot.

A law against -dancing- ... Where the fuck are we, Saudi Arabia?

Yeah, and our pissing contest with N. Korea is actually about keeping nukes away from African Americans.

The greatest trick humanity pulled was blaming the devil for things they did.

Martha Stewart?

When I sneeze, I just ignore it when people say “bless you”. No “excuse me”. When others sneeze, I don’t say anything unless it’s someone who compulsively blesses me when I sneeze, in which case I’ll usually say “1,001 blessings upon ye” or “Saint Liam O’Henehan’s benevolent blessings be with you” or some other such…

Where does “here comes da judge” come from originally? I remember when I was a little kid, my dad would say that when we were on a boat and saw thunderstorms on the horizon.

Name me a president in the last 70 years whose administration didn’t initiate preemptive or unilateral military or ‘police’ action against another state.

Yeah. When it happens though, it suuuucks. I guess there are pros and cons to checking / carrying on, depending on your trip and priorities.

My experience with cops (as a bystander several times, and as a 911 caller several times) has been one of either a) vague hostility or b) direct hostility. The cops are always aggressive assholes, even if you’ve just been mugged or had a family member keel over from a heart attack. My favorite time was when I had to…