I think you are right that it has been extra nasty lately. A few weeks ago there was a series of hit pieces on Pete Buttigieg and I decided to stop reading for a while. I don’t know if the time away made me more sensitive or if Jez has simply gotten worse, but when I came back I couldn’t believe how mean and negative…

I have been on SNS the last few weeks crowdsourcing ideas and I am going to continue tonight! So:

“People will never forget the way you made them feel.”

Great God almighty. The first time I read it, I didn’t realize he misspelled “come” and I flipped out. Whew. That was a roller coaster.

The letter and note are stupid, but they are also deeply cowardly. If you are going to confront someone over this, do it to his/her face. The fact that he put it in a letter confirms that he knows good and well that his opinion is morally reprehensible and just political grandstanding.

Does anyone have any movie recommendations? I struggle to watch movies because I get bored and can’t sit still. I need a thriller that will keep me interested. I really liked Get Out, The Martian, and Black Panther. HATED La La Land.

That’s not how suing someone for emotional distress works. First, there needs to be an actual injury— you can’t sue someone and just say “you upset me.” That would be crazy.

Point taken. But a background check would only tell them if the employee has been arrested—it won’t tell them whether the employee has a history of being a creep. In this context that is a particular problem because this kind of harassment is not very visible and police don’t generally arrest guys for making sexually…

This guy is obviously gross. But this is a dumb take. What else do you want DoorDash to do? Forbid drivers from delivering to single women? It’s not DoorDash’s fault that this guy decided to be a creep.

Ashley, what were those policies? Sure, Trump had said he was anti-immigrant, that he wanted to bring manufacturing jobs back, and a bunch of other very regressive ideas. But he absolutely did not propose realistic and granular ways to achieve those goals.

I maintain that Brittany is a complete mastermind. A few years ago she was just a waitress with no future. Now she is a main character on a very popular reality tv show, has a significant following on social media, has had several cosmetic surgeries that she did not pay for, and is getting married to a 40-something…

I love that you left out Scheana. Sums her storyline up perfectly.

Oh definitely. I will almost certainly be going to a national park. The question is which one.

Me too! I was there in the winter and it was just breathtaking. It is definitely on my list of potential places. 

I got some unexpected time off from work in June and I am going to take a trip. But I don’t know where to go! I am looking for a place with great hiking and outdoorsy things to do. I would like to stay in North America.

How many news outlets do you think she shopped this to before landing at CNN? In order of priority, it’s got to be at least 1. NYT, 2. WaPo, 3. CNN.

Agree totally. One of the male professors at my grad school regularly drove his children to and from school. This fact was so shocking and impressive that the school-run news paper wrote an article about it.

Came here to say the same thing. I agree with the other posters who say that policing what people eat causes disordered eating. But the article describes “a world where women are portrayed as thin, pretty ornaments eating salads with minimal calories.” What world is that??

I don’t have any advice to add, but I just want to say that you should not let people on here shame you for re-homing your cats. Sure its not ideal, but you are obviously doing everything you can. Life happens, things change. You have clearly thought this through and wouldn’t have made this decision if it was not your…

She is a registered dietician. And to be fair to her, she has given some good advice and I am sure her program works for some people. There is just something that is not lining up with her approach and my eating preferences.