I am hoping against hope that farther down in this thread is a woman posting her story about how when she was a tween she got her first period in the dark woods while on vacation with someone else’s family, and then I hope you both lock eyes and say “it’s you!” and then you get together over international coffee and…

It seems to me that digging the small trench and then laying a clean, sand-free beach towel over it would be even more comfortable, at least if you’re on a beach that prohibits nudity. Beach sand can be easily rinsed or brushed off bare skin, but it gets under the edges of your clothing where it will be irritating.

My dad’s family had been going to this rinky-dink set of cabins in rural Wisconsin for generations. By the time I was a ‘tween in the 90s, they’d at least been retrofitted with electricity, but you still had to use an outhouse. The nearby lake was great, but my fond summertime memories of bonfires, tubing, and jumping…

My DDs always benefited from a boob trench!

I developed really quickly the summer I turned 16. I started the summer with my chin in the sand and finished levitating 3 inches above it. I figured the trench thing out quickly.

Cosign, I’ve been doing this for decades (early bloomer here!) 

This sort of vague, anecdata driven complaint sounds a lot like what got the whole wellness/power of positive thinking movement jump started in America in the nineteenth century. Barbara Ehrenreich’s Bright-Sided does a nice dive on the history of the middle class people who suffered from all sorts of “nervous…

Clinton was a governor of a U.S. state for over a decade. Obama was a sitting U.S. Senator and also taught constitutional law at a prestigious university. That experience is not only objectively relevant to serving as president but also tracked with the resumes of prior presidents. For someone who had never served as…

“Aside from all that, let’s just vote for the person that can beat Trump”

Once you achieve perfect clairvoyance that allows you to know exactly which candidates will beat Trump and which ones will lose to him, you can vote this way.

Until that moment, you’re sacrificing principles that are important to you based on your…

As someone who recently nearly died likely because of my birth control pill at the ripe old age of 29 (hello, pulmonary embolism), I find the woo-woo concerns about hormonal birth control really frustrating. I had originally gone on birth control to modulate my extreme depressive swings around my period (in addition…

Exactly. Every news coverage of him instead of Warren or Harris just chaps my ass. 

Anybody with sense knows he won’t win this one.

Deployed to Afghanistan is a damn good reason to dislike someone. Especially someone who signed up in 2007, when everyone was well aware of the fact that our wars in the ME are just modern imperialist campaigns.

Can we please raise the bar during the primary so that it’s higher than “he isn’t Trump”. FFS

It’s not his resume that makes me dislike him, it’s the gall of thinking that resume is adequate preparation for the presidency. You’ll notice my original post does not compare his record unfavorably to the current occupant of that office. They are both experientially unqualified for the job; one happens to be morally…

You forgot one thing: getting elected to one smaller office and thinking that qualifies him to run for President.

Thanks, that’s why I said “for a politician”

Good looking is a stretch, he looks like a Dr. Seuss character.