My MIL continues to be a reprehensible human. Thanks to those who advised us to speak with a social worker last week re: my FIL’s situation (she had been ignoring him while he was ill, putting assets in her own name, etc.). Unfortunately, we found out that he had tested positive for COVID and earlier this week he had…

I thought for sure that their ship was going to be used as fodder, i.e., double-cross the sisters & send the authorities after them to clear space for a larger shipment.

Tripp’s husband and daughter were at her bedside in the ICU at the time of her death.

:D I saw some Manic Panic online today and I was tempted... Not sure how it is in Panama, but I have an acquaintance who was stuck in Peru for a couple of weeks after the border closed and she said roughly the same about strict enforcement. The State Department had to get special flights to bring them out.

Good to know... he is still there. (But we can’t visit due to the regulations right now.)

Happy for the good boys & girls!

Lowe never reaches the level of a “character,” IMO. He’s just a straight-up dirtbag and a con.

Yeah, odds that this guy was bopping back and forth to Central America, in the last 1980s- early 1990s, throwing money around, and did not somehow end up involved with shady dealings seem fairly low. At the very least, if you had the means and wanted to disappear down there, you could. Reminds me of that story a few…

I don’t think this is purely an age thing. I stumbled across a thread earlier on FB started by a friend who is a first responder asking if she should go out drinking for St. Pats. The replies were full of firefighters, EMTs, and spouses of these individuals who were all, “hell yeah, bar!” I’ve been angry about it all…

Truly, the description of that meeting (in the book “A Very Stable Genius,”among others) sheds a lot of light on this visit. Trump has shown his hand as a complete ignoramus on issues in this region, so Modi has realized the best way to cultivate the relationship is just to flatter Trump and take him to a bunch of…

Or, you could talk to your spouse and just not buy a smart speaker if s/he is uncomfortable with it. Save yourself $49.99 and the love of your dog.

Women, families, servicemen and -women receiving tuition assistance or seeking citizenship, sexual assault victims, injured vets... How many ways can the military telegraph that it absolutely does not give a fuck about the safety and well-being of its people?

I mean, did this part of the story not answer your question?

Yep, that’s about where I was a couple of summers ago when I had a gap between jobs—also as a single person. It also turned into a massive headache because, despite paying for the COBRA, the insurer kept rejecting claims as though I were no longer insured. I was lucky to have a health provider who was rational and…

Read Luis Urrea and the other authors who Cummins credits with “inspiring” her.

Funny because I recently read one of the newer Disney/Star Wars novels that has a vignette about Obi-Wan suggesting the dry air was prematurely aging him. 

I mean, I think this “project” was originally supposed to be a movie, so yeah. This would be the appropriate scope for a story.

TLJ Haters 2 years ago: Too much of the movie was devoted to a pointless quest about nothing.

“Women Talking” was the last of the 26 books I finished in 2019. I honestly had some mixed feelings about it. A lot of what was the most striking about it was the detail surrounding the true story, which then left me somewhat uncomfortable with whether the book was appropriating the trauma of these women just a bit.…