She should talk to Milo Yiannopoulos, AJ Delgado, Corey Lewandowski, and all those folks at that Carrier plant about how well he protects those who are loyal to him.

Her father is emboldening people who literally want to kill her children. How is that not a line? How is that not the place where you say, “You either unequivocally denounce the people yelling, ‘blood and soil,’ and ‘jews will not replace us,’ because they are explicitly threatening your grandchildren and then you…

But like, is it a gluten-free cookie? Cause I feel like it’s not and how can you not remember that I’m trying to really commit to paleo this month? Because I reeeeelly think that maybe I’m gluten or casin intolerant? And in that case, I should go vegan but, like, not with soy because of the bio-equivalents.

Robert Pattinson and his hilariously open contempt for Twilight and Edward Cullen were, hands-down, my favorite thing about that whole franchise. Actual quotes:

Or even just “scheduling conflicts.”

This made me LOL.

I started dating someone 6 months before I graduated from law school. My plan was to move to a big city 6 hours away, he planned to stay where we’d gone to school. Moving for each other would have been stupid and a logistical nightmare. So we decided to enjoy the time we had and that we liked each other enough to…

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I’m open to suggestions. But puberty is weird. Looking back, I’d wait for all of that mess to settle before making any long-term decisions.

After living with a small person for the past 4 ish years, I think if I were designing the system from scratch, I’d leave sex off birth certificates but make it easily accessable in medical records and everyone’s gender would be “baby” for the first 18 years of their lives. Then, at 18, you now have the option of…

Adding to your list: It’s also pretty common for very young girls to develop labial adhesions. They generally go away by themselves once puberty comes around, but do need to be watched in case the adhesion traps urine, which can cause a host of secondary issues. Also, boys and girls tend to develop and grow a…

As a lawyer-type person, I get a head ache just thinking about that stuff. How do you divide an estate? How do you handle child custody? If one spouse gets sick and one spouse wants to withhold life support while one wants to continue, who wins in that dispute? That’s what I think is most likely going to keep…

Right now we can’t eat as a family, even if we wanted to. Both my husband and I work at jobs that neither of us can leave before 5. Factor in the daycare run and by the time the small person and I get home, it’s 6 pm and she needs to be in bed by 7:30. There isn’t time to do everything that needs to be done and…

The cognative dissonance.... I just can’t.

She was not missing for a “good chunk” of Season 21. The Ascension arc was 3 episodes in Season 2, (4 if you count “Duane Barry”). She was kidnapped in the last 3 mins of Episode 29. Episode 30 was about her being taken to the alien abduction site while Mulder gave chase, but she had plenty of screen time in…

Hear, hear! I’ve fully made my peace with being perpetually in the greys (though I’m followed by IO9 an Gizmodo which I almost never read) because I’m a fairly infrequent commentor. However, I’ve been here, under this user name since 2009 or 2010ish? Grey is fine but being clearly excluded from the community stings…

Honesty, after Duchovny left the series and she carried the weight for all the later seasons - forget those other two, I know I have - I’d argue Andersen brings more value to the series. It’s been proven we’ll watch the X Files without Mulder. I’m not so confident as many people would watch without Scully.

I’m so angry on your behalf. I had the most amazing consultant when I had a hysterical melt down my second night in the hospital: bad combo of no sleep, no pain meds (the nurse forgot), bleeding nipples, first time parent anxiety, kiddo with a shit latch, and who was awake and HUNRGY about 36 hours before my milk came…

Had the same set up and am a big fan. I ended up needing forcepts (4/10: got healthy baby but otherwise would not recomend) because of fetal distress and my blood pressure tanking. OB from the practice swooped in to extracted the baby and stitch me back together after while the midwife kept me and my husband from…

I think that both sides - midwives and OBGYNs try to position themselves as either/or. Like if you want a midwife you must want a drug-free home birth. Or if you want an OBGYN you want a scheduled induction with an epidural or possibly a scheduled c section. However, my experience was that they actually work really…