Why can’t ALL babies be like this?

I haven’t clicked the link on word salad, but am I crazy that I understood everything written above? Basically hello, sports, Mark Cuban, Texas, I’m the most popular person in the universe?

Agreed. It just makes me feel good inside. Is that really so bad?!

I liked it. I get the criticisms, but it still makes me both laugh and cry. (And to me, for whatever reason, there is something SO funny about the Once twice three times a lady funeral scene).

I don’t know. It would be a check and closure. Imagine going through all of that for him to be found not guilty, especially if you turned down a giant check before that happened. I think for the most part her identity is still pretty much under wraps (although I could be completely wrong here), and that in itself is…

Curt!

Interesting. Thanks for explaining!

Don’t Texas books set the standards nationwide since they order so many? I feel like I read that somewhere....

Someone upthread did a post exactly about this. Like if a kidnapper wanted to be held in high regard for feeding, clothing and providing for their captive with minimum violence, no one would care. Same rules apply.

Yeah I actually remember saying something to the effect (when I was ten, so please be gentle) about “at least they freed them eventually” and my teacher replying that it was pathetic. They’d gone “against their conscience” their whole lives to suddenly want to be remembered correctly now? Not that great of a guy if…

Exactly. You can write whatever you want about the horrors of slavery, but as long as it sugar coats that some slave owners were nice, everything else become moot.

Yeah I agree with this. I think the juxtaposition of the two together is what really does the damage. To me it read more like, even though slaveholders tried to deny them their humanity the enslaved people exercised whatever power they could to build lives. But I DO understand the problem with constant resilience…

THANK YOU!

I just keep laughing at this. OMG.

My grandma’s wake is one of my favorite memories. My mom’s friend later said to her “I’m so sorry I wasn’t able to make it, but I heard it was pretty rowdy!”

My family is from a big college football town, and my grandfather died on a home game weekend, so finding a priest to perform his funeral was a lot harder than anyone would have guessed for a staunch Catholic who had lived in town for 70 years. Because of this, we ended up having the nursing home priest perform the…

Go Belles! Yeah I hope they were well-written, and I know they are probably still in the archives, but I can’t force myself to read them because I fear the self-importance that I’m sure is in them will make me physically ill.

I kind of think the paper does publish almost every letter that it gets. I literally never wrote one that wasn’t published when I went to SMC (I think I wrote two and both were published). It is a great place to hate read, although in fall literally more than 70% are about football.

Great point. Basically, everything is fucked.

YES! Plus then how is everyone going to get there if it’s remote? And also, this just gives you EVEN more options in the endless sea of choices that already is the wedding planning process. No one put their prices online so then you have to email every single goddamn company to get their rates and comparison shop. I…