also she said she wants “easy, effortless, paired down beauty” instead of “pared down” and now my hate for her has doubled.

My 8 year old daughter has sensory processing and attention difficulties as a result of a birth related brain injury. We’ve been doing some work on helping her regulate her emotions a bit better as she is prone to quite devastating melt-downs when the world comes at her a bit too hard and fast. Yesterday she became…

I sent my gay son off to perhaps the most bigoted area in all of America, Lubbock, to attend his new student orientation for college. I hate every single thing about this place but my son is in love and transferred from a mediocre college in to a great one. He worked hard and got the grades. His boyfriend is there and…

I’m in the military, so I snapped up Grunt about as soon as it came out! I love Mary Roach!

I can’t believe they dared to play off my mom! Some people just don’t value genius. Or their own testicles.

I’d heard it before. I just assumed it was a sort of Victor Garber situation where he didn’t feel the need to hide it but also didn’t feel the need to make a big announcement about it.

I have no idea how I’ve gone this far in life having never heard that Kevin Spacey might be gay. And I waste way more time than I care to admit reading celebrity gossip.

The BBC, while trying to be neutral and impartial, still has hosts who don’t like the Government and puts out content that still asks serious questions about its conduct despite being “neutral”.

I keep thinking back to my legal ethics class - if your boss asks you to do something unethical, and you do it, you can’t claim you were just following orders. It’s YOUR ass on the line. But at the same time? If your boss pressures you to do it or you’ll be fired, his ass is also gonna be on the line because it…

Thoughts:

The U.S. federal system was set up for a weak executive, except in wartime. Until about Woodrow Wilson’s time, the president made a bunch of appointments, signed bills and mostly just sat on his ass.

This is how low the bar is - we shouldn’t expect the President of the United States to understand what’s bad about a national police force being beholden to one person’s whims. Look at how American we are, comrades.

You know, I’ve never held public office but I wouldn’t need that to be explained to me.

But being unaware of the law doesn’t free you of the consequences of breaking it. I didn’t realize you had to drive for 100 yards in a lane before changing to another lane, but the ticket I paid and the point on my car insurance are the consequences for breaking that law.

Not to mention, it’s a line that is patently bullshit. When a boss says to their PA, “I’d like you to go and get me a cup of coffee,” they are not simply expressing a fond desire of theirs that they hope to see fulfilled as a personal favor if it’s convenient, they are politely giving an order. The very fact that…

“He’s [Trump] just new to this”. New to what?

“I think most Americans are done taking seriously Republican complaints of how mean the Democrats are to them.”

They did care, though. I remember having a junior teacher in the 80s who said that he got in trouble with the administrators at some inner city school in Chicago that he taught at in the late 60s because he wouldn’t make the girls kneel on the floor and demonstrate that their skirts touched the ground before letting…

Imagine being a high school/junior high school teacher and having this debate with your colleagues. Urgh. And them not getting the point, even when I explain why their way of viewing this is genuinely hurtful to both our female students, who are reduced to their bodies, and to our male students, who are seen as…

I know people wil say I’m exaggerating, but it’s my firm belief that it’s this kind of thing that lay the grounds for normalizing victim-blaming in rape.

Moon was my second favorite pokemon game of all time, second to emerald and just above XD. I don’t really mind replaying the story, or some variant of it. Is it a poor practice? yeah, probably. But I’m a filthy consumerist worm, so I don’t mind this time.