Nice! I’m just trying to not look like shit.

My neighbors are shooting automatic weapons off right now, and at the Kops for Kids spaghetti feed tonight at the church santa will be raffling off guns. Does anyone else feel like a stranger in a strange land due to where they live?

Whaaaaat. This is bizarre and so on trend for this year.

Anyone else following the Sara Gruen/Hatchimal debacle?

Ladies, I’m “new” here. I’ve commented a few times and I’ve been reading Jezebel for years now. I don’t know if this is allowed, and I feel fairly pathetic for even putting it out there.

I’m currently emailing fake documents to Trump suggesting Pence is in a conspiracy with his daughter to have him assassinated by a group of gay Mexican immigrants who support climate change.

Very scary moment over here, thought this was SNS and that it had been Saturday all day without me knowing it.

I am Canadian. Unfortunately where I live services are very limited (up north). Before school age it was very easy to access therapies to help her. Since she turned five we’ve had to pay out of pocket. The biggest issue is that she really requires assistance in the classroom and those resources are scarce. They…

I didn’t judge you in the slightest. I don’t use “normal”. You did. I was using the word YOU used. Did you miss that?

Oh, you’re one of those. I didn’t say they were normal. My older daughter has a severe mental health issue, so I guess you’d call that abnormal. That was the first reason for keeping her home. The second is having a husband who is out of the country for work - sometimes we travel with him. The third is the free time.

If he could change his pro-life stance, he’d be a good choice. His stances on the environment, equal pay and minimum wage sound good too.

How much money do YOU make that $200 per kid makes someone a “cheapskate”?

This is our first Xmas with baby, so we’ll see how far we get but right now our intention is to buy her “something she wants, something she needs, something she wears, something she reads”. Like I said long term who knows if this is realistic but here’s hoping. Since she’s 8 months old for her “want” I’m honestly…

I wonder if, in later years (should we survive this administration) folks will speak of the Trump Baby Bust in contradistinction to the Baby Boom. You are only one of many many people I’ve heard say they are now reconsidering having children.

I think there’s a way to balance it out so they receive and they give. We try not to do excessive Christmases. They are getting a Lego set and a book and a stocking. But they also participate in a huge amount of giving - we help out at the food bank and the women’s shelter. Most of the focus of the month is on how we…

I didn’t realize your 3 and 5 year old were personally responsible for the state of the world but if you really feel like ruining their Christmas instead of doing anything proactive like, oh, I don’t know, contacting your senator or volunteering with an organization that’s actively affected by the state of things,…

I feel this so much as a Menominee woman. In my family, we went from just my grandmother being the only one to finish high school to all of her daughters having college degrees. The majority of my generation has been lucky enough to go to college. Still it’s not enough.

It’s astonishing how comforted I am just seeing her (beautiful, less made-up) face. I so wish she were in charge, but even knowing she’s out there still makes me feel better. This is all madness, and I wish things were setup where we could have another election in like 6-9 months, after people have really figured…

There is one airport I’ve been to a few times (maybe Charleston?) that has attendants in every. single. bathroom. Like, I’m 3/4 through a 20-hour trip. I need to do things that I do not need an audience for. And I’m not even carrying any American currency. Ugh, I hate that airport for that reason.

What is the proper way to snub a bathroom attendant?