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I was all eye-rolly and “oooh another movie about quirky white girlz and their feeeeeeeeelings” but then I watched the preview and it was charming as all get out. Also I love Laurie Metcalf in everything.

Huh. I also went to a predominantly black high school, and no one showered after gym. I have no idea if the showers even worked. Just changes of clothes and hella baby powder. Husband went to a predominantly white school, and everyone showered. I just assumed it was because they had more up-to-date facilities. It…

Wow, never heard of them and their website is so painful to look at, I can hardly stand it! They seem pretty clearly to have some sort of awful scam going and I’m kind of surprised they haven’t been shut down yet! The rescue I got my dog from closed a couple of years after I got her - I guess the woman who ran the…

Oh, I hear you. Puppies are cute, but they’re a TON of work, and I’d much rather hang with a mellow adult dog. My pets have all been rescues, and not out of any sense of altruism. There’s a huge supply of great pets out there and have no desire to spend thousands of dollars feeding some sort of designer pet market. In…

For sure! And those places are great for those who have the time and bandwidth to take on more challenging pets. It’s hard to come to terms with, but there are just more animals than there are homes that can take them, and it’s especially challenging when dealing with an elderly, ill, or aggressive/fearful pet.

Do you live in CA? There actually is a fair bit of regulation here if people are calling themselves rescues, including that all animals must be spayed/neutered before adoption (and most also microchip as well) so I’m not sure how they can be accused of breeding. Every one I’ve adopted through required you fill out an…

Look, my whole life, my name has begun with an M and I’ve never been subjected to this kind of harassment. I used to be a little jealous of all the attention people got when their names started with P or A. There was a lot of pressure to have my name start with another letter, and who knows? Maybe I would have gotten…

I think a lot of people have been addressing the obvious fallacy that only young, beautiful, thin, sexy women are sexually harassed or assaulted. Or that you can somehow shield yourself from unwanted attention with conservative clothes and a disdain for pilates and manicures. As if children, elderly people, fat…

Ha. Yeah, we’re in the East Bay and my kids are THRILLED about their 4 day smoke-weekend. Been having slumber parties and trying to keep them busy indoors, but it’s not too bad. Seeing the devastation in the Santa Rosa and elsewhere in the North Bay definitely has me feeling extremely fortunate. I imagine I’d be…

OMG that baby. Sorry.. my oldest is in 6th grade and watching that little boy fly through the air at the hands of that supposedly trained, grown-ass man just made my whole stomach turn. He even looks little for his age, that kid weighs what? 70-80 lbs, max? That fight could have been broken up by two old lady yard…

Not just illustrations, but “a Chinese boy eating with sticks” (along with a pretty offensive illustration) is given as one of the CRAAAAAAZY embellishments the imaginative protagonist comes up with to juice up his story of what he saw on boring old Mulberry street. As in, seeing a Chinese boy eat food is equated…

I didn’t do a super scientific study.. They didn’t seem to MIND using the other stuff, but once I changed litter, the number of out-of-box incidents dropped precipitously. I did keep the bathroom door closed for a while for good measure.

I think the second story does a good job of demonstrating the right initial call by CPS (removal of children from household due to parental drug abuse) followed by a failure to support both parents in their recovery and reconciliation and dangerous stereotyping that perpetuates the systemic undermining of families of…

Two things:

I guess I’m lucky- my 6th grader’s teacher spends a lot of time teaching the kids organizational skills (she gave them all planners and makes sure they write down their assignments every day, automatic detention if you’re late or fail to bring in homework). The math book is online (which means that if a kid forgets…

Okay.. just doing some math. He’s scammed $3.7M. He has to pay back ~.6M. So he still cleared ~$3.1M? And he has to serve 46 months, so a little less than 4 years (and probably less than that if he doesn’t have trouble in prison). If we think of his time inside as years worked, even if he serves his full…

According to google: “Statistics show that in the U.S., 50% percent of first marriages, 67% of second, and 74% of third marriages end in divorce. Second marriages have difficulty for a number of reasons. First, once a person discovers that he or she can manage a divorce, they are less scared of going through the…

Ah, ok. Troll. Nevermind. I liked you better when you were just dense and sexist, not racist too.

No.