They didn’t schedule me at my retail job (I’d considered sicking out, but just got lucky...as did the other woman there most likely to participate...) and I don’t have any work to do at either of my freelance ones, so I’m sort of striking by default. I won’t go shopping, though as we’ve just had a blizzard, I wouldn’t…

I don’t live in the States so I don’t necessarily get the same news coverage as Americans, but I remember being active on some online message boards at the time of this case and being kind of shocked at how obsessed some women my age were with this case. Don’t get me wrong - a kid died and that’s fucking horrible. But…

Was it something like this?

The BBC report is brief and devoid of any further explanation as to how a 53-year-old dies of “natural causes.” This is pure speculation, but it’s easy enough to Google around and see a reported link in drug use and cardiomyopathy, including cocaine, which Michael admitted to using in the past, as well as heroin,…

These kinds of deaths always seem extra sad. This man had no one in his life that cared enough to figure out why they hadn’t heard from him. I’m a little surprised it took a landlord so many months to come and collect the rent.

If she had paid the DACA application fine, she would have at least had some legitimacy in her pleas to stay in this country. She has zilch because she didn’t think ahead. She had two years to save up $500. Even a high schooler could have saved up $5oo in one year. Why didn’t she?

Well, since this is a hotly contested issue in many parts of the country, and she might be in a better position to sway people who on the fence about it, I’d imagine a lot of people who care about women having access to reproductive rights give a shit about this.

Imagine if 60 year old dudes accepted the evidence illustrating the high correlation between advanced paternal age and autism. Oh, wait, nothing is ever the dude’s responsibility especially when it comes to reproduction.

Whenever things like this happen, my mind goes to how frantic I would be trying to evacuate my dogs. If I were forced to evacuate without being able to get them, I honesty think I would sneak in on foot rather than leave them behind.

Thank you for taking other people’s comfort into consideration. - Your Fellow Passangers

Bad schools make future Republicans!

Yes, that completely describes a man who went to columbia, harvard, and then oxford. and graduated with honors.

If Ollie is anything like the cats I’ve known in my life, she’s probably still in her enclosure somewhere not giving a damn about the people who are frantically looking for her. She’ll come out in a couple of days and pretend she has no idea what all the fuss is about.

I guess Carlos’s middle name is Stranger.

He voluntarily exchanged messages with a 15 year old girl. It’s one thing for the puritanical moral outrage over some politician cheating on his wife, it’s a whole other thing when an actual predator gets his comeuppance for being a predator. He’s not a victim.

Sometimes I wonder what alternative universe I grew up in. When I was a kid, I always thought girls were smarter than boys. The girls in my classes always made better grades, were more studious and participated more in class. There were probably twice as many girls in my gifted program then boys.

I’m still so giddy! Not a sign, but this made me teary.

I had to go through this rigamarole for a 10 hour a week nanny we had for 9 months. Now, I understand why it is necessary, but I think people underestimate what a pain in the ass it is for everyone involved. I had to register for federal and state tax IDs, as well as register with the state Department of Labor. Then I…

That differs by state. In most states, you pay unemployment insurance taxes once you pay any number of employees combined wages of $1000 or more in a calendar quarter. In CA, it’s $750. In NY and DC it’s $500.

Although that was dumb on this guys part I don’t know anyone who pays taxes for their babysitter. Like you hand them some cash and they leave. If it was a nanny or some other kind if live in care I could see this being a real issue.