If you get some really, really clear crystal quartz and look through it - you’ll be able to see bullshit. I’m just not sure which crystal lets you recognize it.

Whatever you want them to mean!

A friend of mine worked at our main local crystal purveyor. He was asked to spruce up the crystal display, and in the process he threw out the descriptions and made up (even more) ludicrous new ones out of thin air.

In five years, not a single patron complained or even noticed.

Rocks and minerals and crystals are excellent ways to appreciate the glory of nature and the earth and geological processes and all that. But they do not have magical properties.

“The only good takeaway” is objectively false here. Without this absolute flailing trash inferno of a movie, we wouldn’t have Lindy West’s* poetically savage and savagely poetic takedown of it, and frankly, our lives would be all the poorer. Do I revisit this review every so often just to bask in the reflected glow of…

This. That a significant proportion of the population are simply too stupid to understand what BMI is and isn’t, shouldn’t be seen as a reflection on BMI, it should be seen as a reflection on *them*. It’s like the Bechedel test: that you can point to good/awful films that fail/pass the test doesn’t negate the…

I shared on another article, but I got my first shot two weeks ago when the clinic that my wife works at was giving vaccines.
It was 4:30 on a Friday and they had some doses that they needed to use by the end of the day or they had to get rid of them. I happened to be in my office that day, which is only a few minutes…

BMI and all of it associated what not may be bullshit, but

When it’s your turn, unapologetically get that shot. I have no patience for the stupid people who judge this. It does not matter why you’re eligible. You’re in line and we need to keep the line moving until everyone gets in.

BMI, as has been stated many times, is bunk.

I’ve literally never heard of this book because I was raised evangelical and my parents only cared about Christian parenting resources, but this struck me:

The lies and blaming this on his daughter are particularly wild when you consider how publicly his two kids fucking hate their dad.

As the breadwinner who is FAR less involved with school and home, it is really important for me to check in with my spouse, see where he is, and to see what is going on that I didn’t know about.   Catching up is really, really important.

The discipline of marriage goes to a whole other level when you have kids. It’s not just two people’s schedules and needs, but multiple people’s schedules and needs. I’m sure Russell & Ciara have way more help than the rest of us, but honestly his description sounded a lot like life with my spouse and 3 kids: what’s…

Shannon, I’m concerned for your marriage if you think this sounds exhausting. 

Weird choice to make fun of healthy communication. For some it’s natural, and some people need to make time and effort for it. As long as this works for both of them, great!

This is actually how Mr. Levy and I got our shit back on track after a very tough time in our marriage. Being intentional, checking in with each other, communicating how we feel to each other. Do we have weekly scheduled conversations and ask each other how we loved or supported each other using scripted sounding…

Who has such a well-put-together schedule that they know their responsibilities for the week at the outset of that week? This is too much.

This doesn’t sound exhausting, it’s sounds like making the time to nurture your relationship with the same care and responsibility you put into your job. Imagine that???

Marriage isn’t easy, and I’m glad that they’re being open about the effort they put in to make it work. Too many people pretend that their…

Yes! You’d think Cruz, Hawley, Rubio and any other hubristic knucklehead with dreams of being POTUS would be quite happy to eliminate trump as a potential opponent in ‘24. But no one can figure out how to placate and corral the rabid lumpen base they all helped to create. Cruz, for example, is smart enough to…