SO. EXCITED. for tomorrow. I'm going to Wendy Davis' big "announcement" and I donated to attend the "announcement celebration" party afterwards. *Hunger Games voice* MAY THE ODDS BE IN MY FAVOR TO MEET WENDY DAVIS TOMORROW!

Ok, I get the snark. Because for most of us, McDonald's is a treat, and we go there with the intention of indulging in some calorie-laden grease snacks.

Daddy needs his sleeping pill? You, bet baby. Wash it down with my special, homemade decaf...

Right? This might be extreme, but I don't really care about her baby. The fetus in her belly is not yet a person and my empathy does not yet extend to it. My empathy is for her. I care that she is safe and happy in her pregnancy and she obviously is. And even if she miscarried, I'd only be sad for her, for having lost…

You don't understand why we're so down with trans people because you don't have a good handle on our beliefs - or, more accurately, you have an ok handle on the beliefs of a very specific subset of feminism that hates trans people more than anyone, and not on the beliefs of the people who are really ok with trans…

There is still hope for this world.

I'd bet that the trainer explained to them that it might not perform as expected. Owls can be very intractable. That's because they're less easily swayed with food rewards and more easily distracted by strange noises and bright light - both of which would be present in a church.

I recently took a niece to a falconry display where a farm 2 miles away had to be phoned and asked to shoo the bird (some kind of hawk) back to the display arena. This seemed to happen a lot as the falconer had some well rehearsed patter lined up. They then bought out another bird called Chaos that had spent the…

That's why a good prop master always insists that animals are actors, not props.

Space Mountain 2 is themed around Jules Verne's classic 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon. It is really well done.

"The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton (1967)

Jules Verne first published in 1870

Witch of Blackbird Pond. That's my cover also!

From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler

I HATED reading when I was a kid, but my mom made me do it anyway. She'd timed me, but I still refused. I remember pretending to read while staring at a clock timing how long I should wait to turn the page so it looked like I was reading.

Maybe change the headline not to say "wedding announcement"? I can see in the comments people are arguing that it is odd to include in a wedding announcement, which is a fair point, so it would be useful to clarify that this is a weekly article about a couple getting married, not an announcement like one that appears…

Cardiff? Weird orange blob things?

I was one of the original organizers. To some extent we were already a step ahead because we were defined as employees and paid a wage, as opposed to being defined, however inaccurately, as contract workers, which is how most clubs operate. The hourly wage kept us from being in too much competition with each other to…

I did my own taxes this year.