Criminalizing parents is not the answer. It provides no actual assistance to get kids into school and it actually materially harms entire families and communities. Maybe if schools were decent enough and opportunities for employment were actually available—students and parents could make the right choice. You can’t…

I’m not a single mother and I still had to opt into sending my kid to a private school because the neighborhood school was simply incompatible with my partner and my work schedules. It’s going to cost us a fortune but less than having one of us unemployed. 

Man, I had bad credit because I missed several months of my student loan payments because my mom didn’t recognize the envelopes and just threw them out.

I had a friend who was injured three decades ago and my mother did this for her. It is one of the many reasons that my mother is my hero. 

Another thing to thank Reagan for...those ads in the US date back to 1985. 

Having grown up in a house full of books, there is also the nontrivial matter of children having access to a wide range of books as they grow up. I have no idea what my childhood would have looked like (or frankly who I would have grown up to become) in the absence of constant access to fascinating books. 

A lot of towns have “repurpose” businesses. They take “trash” that can be upcycled by crafters, artists, and the like. 

Counterpoint: There’s no such thing as a sexy sext. 

Cherry Pope Zero or GTFO. 

As my brother in law once said, “I know sexuality isn’t a choice because women still date men.”  

Absolutely, yes. It’s creepy. 

It’s because you’re not in your twenties anymore—not because you’re less of an asshole.

I have absolutely had this experience before. Ugh. 

I’m finally feeling my age around these parts and it has a lot to do with authors talking about vaping like its an actual hobby or like it makes them seem interesting. It’s a fedora for your mouth not a substitute for a personality.

Vaping is a Segway for your face.  

Yes, I know that. I don’t consider completely undermining the fundamental character of a main figure a “service.” If it had just been her eating pb&j while reminiscing about her life, I’d have been fine with it...but that sandwich shouldn’t have been a signifier of her utter stupidity.

Ugh. So the thing I truly love about these books is that they are essentially competence porn. Bree is an MIT student studying engineering with a deep interest in history. She is a strong, independent woman who is going to go back in time and create a plumbing system in the backwoods of America and school her husband…

Never terrible? Might I remind you of Edith falling for the burn victim slash scam artist?

I slipped my foot out and showed him my point. He left an obscenely high tip. What can I say? I have a great arches.  

Service Christmas Parties are the most terrifying. I’ve had to deal with fistfights, blow everywhere, bartenders run out of the bar by looting waitstaff, a missing dj (getting a blow job from the hostess), and a number of other unsavory nonsense. The owners are usually the worst offenders.