We’re using a travel agent to book a resort stay next summer that is organized by another travel company. Our agent not only got us a discount on the adult stays, she got us a discount on our kid and got the yet-to-be-born-but-assumed-to-exist-next-summer infant for the price of free (the travel company was charging a…

I know exactly which place you’re talking about just by saying “sushi on the Southside” - my point was that there is no good sushi in a two hour radius of Pittsburgh, so the context clues aren’t about which restaurant, but that you’re guaranteed crappy service and/or crappy food.

So many context clues. Mid priced. Pittsburgh. Trendy douchebag neighborhood. And with the way Yinzers pronounce “sake” the restaurant name rhymes with “tacky.”
My food allergies force me to be really careful with sushi joints; there is not a single one a trust in the Burgh as a result.

Article now edited such that my comment doesn’t make sense. Sigh. Those of us in the Upper Midwest are not looking forward to his return.

Madison, CT? More likely Madison WI, the capital of Wisconsin, not a random suburb of New Haven.

Amelia Chalfant? Daughter of the Nields’ Katryna Nields and Dave Chalfant?!? Is old enough to be in her own damn band?!?
I’m old.

I inherited a chest of drawers when my parents-in-law moved from a big house to a tiny apartment. Stashed away in one of the drawers was a set of sexy time products that I can’t even call to mind because I took some mindbleach, y’all, after throwing that shit out and bleaching the drawers themselves. BTW, mindbleach -…

FMLA only applies to workers who have been with a company continuously for more than 12 months. My university screwed up my contract and gave me a 9 month contract, renewable over 5 years prior to tenure, but still the first year was only 9 months, so that when my little niblet comes along in November, I don’t qualify…

So I don’t think that black on white racism is a thing, per se, but I do think that there is a current of anti-semitism that emerges out of the precarious whiteness of Jews, the fucking awful relationships between Jews and Black folks in places like Brooklyn (in no small part because of actions of Jews themselves -…

Whoa, wait, what’s wrong with Jewfro? How else can I describe my hair? Einstein-esque? Slightly kinky super curly very frizzy? I’m not appropriating anything but the “fro” phoneme here, my hair sans a perm is kinky and curly and when untamed, is very much like a natural or Afro style.

Glad to be a font of paranoid/crunchy knowledge!

They changed their formula. The older one, from last year, with an almost entirely blue tube, is 20% zinc oxide. The new stuff, which is yellow and blue, is only 9%. It is the new stuff that doesn’t work. The old stuff is still being sold in a lot of places, so if you go out and buy some Honest Co sunscreen, there is…

She had her first full set of vaccines and blowout diapers happened until she potty trained. Honestly traveling with her that young was easier than a year later. Mostly she just slept (sitting on the tarmac waiting for take-off aside). At 14 months, all she wanted to do was toddle up and down the aisle, which…

I’m probably going to get shit for this (haha, pun, read the story) and be “one of those parents” but fuck you very much in advance for this. Babies are people with rights, and you were once a baby.

When airlines take the changing tables out of the bathrooms, you gotta do what you gotta do. You can’t change a kid on a toilet seat- not big enough. Floor ain’t big enough. Where else should I do it? Or do you want to smell my kid’s dirty diaper and hear her wail for the next however many hours?

It is Hebrew and a fairly common name in Israel. Pronounced either like Maya-la minus the M, or eye-AH-la as suggested in another comment. Also spelled Eyala, related to the masculine name Eyal - ee-AL or eh-AL.
With a name like Epstein, money is on a Jewish heritage (though mixed, because only bad Jews name their…

It isn’t just about condom use, because there are issues around latex and lubrication that must be addressed and which ultimately can limit effectiveness of condoms in preventing STI transmission. Even lubricated condoms generally aren’t lubricated enough for post-menopausal vaginal dryness, and lacking sufficient…

Oh they do, but with no chance of pregnancy and generally a very different orientation towards future health than younger cohorts, it doesn’t look like high school condoms on bananas.

Funeral homes are generally a rip-off, anyway, hence the rise in places like Costco selling caskets (yes they do!), direct cremation, and even home funerals with death midwives. Jessica Mitford’s work isn’t quite as relevant today as it was back in the 60s, but according to “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes,” mortuary folks…

I do research with autistic adults, and the number one stigma they experience isn’t their social difficulties, because most people who aren’t assholes can accommodate disabled folks, but it is the parents who think that autistic people shouldn’t exist.