His son might not know.

I don’t think any of these clowns actually knew what the DoE did before they got into office. Rick Perry said as much - he thought he’d been appointed to be Secretary of Getting Other Countries to Buy our Fossil Fuels, basically, and some folks from the DoE had to sit him down and explain that no, that’s not the kind…

But also because if they went far enough to please the Freedom Caucus they would have lost (were already losing) the most moderate republicans. They needed to please both to get enough votes, and on this issue, that’s become impossible.

It’s not. Either he’s wrong or he goes to some really crappy sushi places. If they’re actually not making the rice properly, I wouldn’t trust that they’re handling the fish properly either.

I was always told that you should let food cool off before you put it in the fridge, that if you put hot food in the fridge it goes bad more quickly. Is that just an old-wives tale?

I think the better way to think about it is that the relationship is the boss.

Hah. I’ve definitely thought many times that if things don’t work out with Mr. notfromvenus, I’m only dating women in the future.

Are you secretly me? My mom is happier as a widow with a career than she ever was as a married SAHM. We get on much better now, too.

Two things, I think. I know some parents who go pick their kid up from school in order to take them to after-school activities in a timely manner. And while this varies from school to school, in many areas, kids aren’t eligible for bus pickup unless they live some distance from the school. Some parents aren’t…

AGH the laundry thing. I’m glad we don’t have cats. Because his idea of doing the laundry is to wash it, and then dump it in a pile on the loveseat that we don’t actually use unless we have guests so he can “fold it and put it away later”. Which usually is never. So half my clothes are perpetually just in a pile on…

I think, for most “decent guys”, it’s not that they think “I’m unwilling to go 50/50" - it’s that seem to not proactively notice or track what needs to get done. My partner is a decent guy, and he’s willing to do housework, but he literally will not even notice that his assigned tasks need doing until either I say…

The alternative is that you pay $350 for insurance and also another $50+ for the pills. Personally, I don’t think that’s an improvement.

Do you believe people should require a prescription to buy any drug that is dangerous and even deadly if not used correctly? If so, we’’ll need to start requiring a doctor’s consult to use Tylenol, Aleve, cough syrup, and many vitamins.

The ACA is private insurance, with the exception of the Medicaid expansion. At this time, *all* insurance in the US is required to 100% cover the cost of birth control (except for if your employer is a religious organization, then they can get an exemption and offer a plan that doesn’t cover it at all). You’re right,…

That’s so incorrect I don’t even know where to start. Tylenol kills many people every year. Advil and aleve damage your GI tract. Vitamins can make you seriously ill. Etc etc.

Plenty of folks take allergy meds for months at a time. Not just short term. OTC pain pills as well.

Depo and IUDs can have significants side effects as well. IUD is much easier to use, though, I’ll give you that. Much less (though not 0) chance of user failure.

My concern about that is this: making it OTC will make it *logistically* more accessible to buy, but *financially* much less so for most women. Right now, insurance companies have to charge $0 for BC. If you buy it OTC, you’ll have to pay the full price, which could easily be $50+/ month.

It plays well to his base, who imagine that undocumented immigrants are all Mexican guys who swim across the Rio Grande carrying bales of drugs on their back.

That would’ve been in ‘89-90, when I was 5. Academics weren’t something I struggled with that much - I was already reading then - but there was also clearly something “wrong” with me that had my parents concerned. I’ve seen a home video that a relative made back then, and I was acting more like a typical 3-year old…