It's worse than a crock of bullshit, it's genuinely harmful.

It’s absolutely possible/ probable. I haven’t seen them around me, but I also haven’t looked very hard since I already had a source. :)

Did you read the end of my post? :)

In the same boat here. Infant care for my son here in Mass. (one of the most expensive states for daycare) was $2200 a month, which approached half my take-home pay. We managed it, and it's "cheaper" now that he's in preschool, but I honestly do not understand how people do it.

I think the 2009 bill you reference would have provided paid *Maternity* leave, not paternity leave. I’m not entirely familiar with the specific bill referenced, but since federal employees currently get NO paid maternity leave, it seems unlikely that any bill was proposed to provide paternity leave.

Pregnant = entitled to eat ALL THE CANDY YOU WANT.

NO! They look AMAZING. Next on the list to try! (I was both delighted and a little disappointed to see that almost all the “special” Haribo are available online — it’s kind of nice to have them be a special, once-a-year treat (my sister always brings a huge bag when she comes at Xmas). But on the other hand.... HARIBO…

LOVE Haribo grapefruits. My sister lives in Switzerland and she brings me all the good Haribo at Xmas that you can’t get here, like Haribo sour pommes, fizzy cola, and Orangina bottles.

This is me too except that I only buy black underwear, problem "solved." It's like that girl scout song, "black socks, they never get dirty, the longer you wear them, the stronger they get."

Many years ago, in the early ages of the internet (eg before stuff like this was an easy wikipedia search away), I worked as a fundraiser at a major NYC institution and she was a donor. I was totally shocked to learn that socially (and maybe legally?) she uses her husband’s last name, Gummer. Meryl Gummer. (This was…

“Kids should not need a constant audience to admire them”

Cosigned. - Fellow woman.

I used to work as a professional fundraiser for a large institution in NYC, and it’s actually expected that guests will take home the floral arrangements at the end of the night. We used to put a sticker under one of the plates at each table and that guest “won" the centerpiece. Sidenote: it’s amazing how excited rich…

Buy some life insurance or up yours. You can start saving in a 529 plan, but in my personal opinion, it’s only worthwhile if you’re already maxing your respective 401ks, because you can take out loans for college, but not for retirement; we are at a point where we hope to be able to pay for our two kids’ college out…

This absolutely exists. Google “grey water toilet.” It is expensive, but I think getting more common in places that face persistent drought like Australia.

But the increased risk for breast and cervical cancers is very low (some studies showing no increased risk of breast cancer for younger women who started the pill more recently, after hormone levels were decreased), while the protective effect against endometrial and (to a lesser extent) uterine cancers is much…

Now I am imagining Ben Franklin singing “tits and ass.”

I don’t watch much porn but I find it hot, because of the taboo I guess. ETA I'm a lady.

This was the part that started the waterworks for me. “I have gained a more profound understanding of what it is to be a mother, both through the depth of the agony I feel when my children scream and cry and from the connection my mother has to my pain. She has tried to fill the empty space in my bed, holding me each…

I even scrolled through the comments to see if anyone else caught it — no one did! I’ve never even watched the show and it was obvious to me right away. NYT got trolled.