The terms as I knew them were “snatch you baldheaded”; frequently used by irate mothers everywhere to clarify that stubborn teenaged daughters were to tow the line or else, and, alternately “jerk a knot in your tail” also frequently used by irate mothers everywhere to clarify that stubborn teenaged daughters were to…

Ikea fulfills the same satisfying urge that putting together Legos does, and at the end of the project, you have a couple of drinks in you, and a serviceable bunkbed. No downside.

Everyone has “Their Doctor”. Baker was mine. So very glad to read of his support.

This is a fantastic article. I have one starting high school this year — the timing on this is perfect. Thanks!

Aloe with lidocaine might also help.

I’m ok with that.

Please tell me you are having this conversation on a Zamboni, too.

With you on that. My husband generally hits the market on his way back from the gym once a week and I almost never have to go. Believe me, this specific chore that he cheerfully does for us has saved the guy from being buried in the yard more than once.

No. God no. Why on earth is someone dragging a reluctant spouse to the mall? (Or in my definition of hell, Home Depot with my husband, where I used to be frequently tempted to garrotte myself with an extra-long extension cord out of boredom.).

I hope that’s true. I loathe Delta, but not more than Coulter.

I fly a ridiculous amount for work, so naturally I loathe the big three US carriers because they are objectively terrible and they don’t care. But even I was like “Nice, Delta. You suck less than Ann Coulter. That’s a start.”

“Buy Us”. That’s the platform.

I’d like to subscribe to your newsletter.

I agree with you.

We need a really good, really cynical madison avenue firm. They sold the american public cigarettes, Kid Rock and shitty white wine to people who would ordinarily drink Bud Light. Simplifying a democratic platform for comsumption by the masses should be a cinch. We have to stop being so damned precious and get a…

When leading a large group of people, as pathologically diverse and pissed-off as we are, centrism is actually *objectively* the right move. God-willing, the dems, a dem, PLEASE GOD ANY DEM gets in power, we’re not going to have a mandate either. At some point we HAVE to start playing together nicely*.

Yeah. We need to stop thinking the electorate is smart. It isn’t. At all.

We Dems are the egghead side of the Dunning-Kreuger effect: we think that because we understand and appreciate that incremental changes are the best way to adjust complicated systems, that of course that is the way to go. You’re right. We need to fire up the populace that doesn’t understand complexity with a…

And yet she flew coach. Here’s hoping she’s broke.

I don’t believe for one second that Coulter doesn’t have some intern booking her travel. Self-proclaimed conservative bullies are the biggest babies I’ve ever met in my life.