Oh noes a rich person has to pay taxes in an accurate manner? Doing shady crap with ones finances might be investigated!? How unfair. 

Right, but if her in-laws are monsters why waste time being enraged about asking for a list when there are clearly much bigger issues at play? Address the actual issues you have with them, because asking for a list isn’t the problem here.

I really hope “they’re trying to steal my gift ideas and get the credit” doesn’t get lost in the ridiculousness of everything else, because it’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever read and feels like the thought of an eight-year-old.

I always have some things that I like to get that are nicer that his family can get me every year

Dear Fuck Up, thank you for putting this whiney asshole in their proper place. OMG People we don’t bother with ever ask us what we want for Christmas! They are trying to steal my gift idea! I am over reaching and over thinking and over emotionalizing an email I can respond to with “Gift cards, funny socks, spices” I…

Yeah. Not everyone cooks, or drinks alcohol, but everyone eats and has to drink something. If nothing else, suggest a thing you’ve always wanted to try (food/drink/expensive coffee/condiment/cheesemaking kit/whatever) but wouldn’t bother to spend the money on yourself.

“Anything handcrafted, made with your own hands.” One year a niece made the suggestion that we exchange handmade gifts. Some people may be into this but holy hell, it was a shit show. I’m not a crafty person and the dread hanging over my head for this event was numbing. So if I asked my in-laws what they wanted for…

They’re her in-laws. They are family. They’re trying to do something nice for her. Maybe they deserve a little ‘emotional labor.’

Asking you to provide a list of things that would make good gifts for you and your husband is asking you to do the emotional labor of caring and being interested that your in-laws could, and don’t, do.

Jeez man, how hard would it be to suggest a few book titles, something for the kitchen or a particular bottle of liquor?

Dear Fuck Up,

Don't forget standing outside clinics threatening pregnant women (and occasionally going inside and opening fire!). That's us too, right? 

Yeah, the terrible violence of the left! Boy howdy, are we lefties known for our violence and our shootings and our constant beatings of our domestic partners! So violent, us lefties who are known for lurking around public spaces with openly brandished firearms! Joining militias! Beating the shit out of reporters!…

You don’t have to have a law degree to be a Guardian ad Litem volunteer. I have an undergrad in pre-law and social work experience and I volunteer. Volunteers are the “feet on the ground” - collecting data and determining needs for individual children so as best to advocate for them. I provide reports to the Child…

Yup. And movements like QAnon feed mental instability.

I have a sister in the same situation. We know she’s been involved in the deaths of two people she called “friends” but there’s nothing legally there to take action. We have been able to keep her kids from her, but it doesn’t stop her from constantly trying to have more babies. The last time I talked to her, I…

I know it’s funny to snark on this situation, but I’m related to two immediate family members who are mentally ill but do not fit the strict legal criteria for involuntary treatment and/or commitment. (I suspect that’s the case with Petrie-Blanchard.)

A douchebag who was grifting off crazy people got killed by one of them, who is clearly much crazier than he realized.

For me, it was Tony Blair being elected in 1997.

As a veteran of the Mesopotamian Unpleasantness, I’d just like to state that you were entirely right.