I’m very sorry about your friend. Appreciate your sharing the story and wishing you peace.

As someone who used to work for a 96% charity, THANK YOU for pointing this out. Jeebus. It takes hard, full-time work to pull in lots of money. Pay those people. Not exorbitantly, but enough so they’re not having to turn tricks to pay rent. Thank you.

Yeah, I feel a strong sideye coming on when friends have 3 kids. I even know some people with 4. Like, 0-2, fine, but after that? There needs to be a tax. As if it wasn’t expensive enough.

Krugman was really good, and showed pretty clearly how bonkers Johnson is, in his column today.

I live in Spain. You are welcome to stay in my guest room. Sry there are still no jobs, but you’re still welcome.

What is this Reason of which you speak.

oh god he was just the best.

ooo yikes. hope you healed up nice. my co-worker was fine but MAAN.

I think you should definitely learn. I won’t tell you about my co-worker, who just started riding around town a bit for the first time around the age of 40-late. She goes spinning EVERY DAY (srsly vry fit) but was afraid of moving off the stand as it were. She got a men’s bike, ya know with the bar, and was trying to…

I WILL BUY the ROTHKOPFCICLE! I love biking but I am so scared. Over the last few years I’ve become horrifically phobic of the speed that you get when biking. I’ve been riding to work once a week all summer, on a nice smooth bike path, and I still...get off and walk down the hills. If anyone else is there, I just act…

That’s smart. I wish I could give it up, but it’s...so anthropological. Plus there are all these people I want to talk to who don’t e-mail. Sigh. But I imagine people who posted garbage on facebook would find another way to be shitty. At least it’s not in person as much...

Yeah, I’m thinking it ought to be neon green and shaped like an orca. I’m still not sure that would’ve helped this kid though. Ugh.

;)

FB is an unsettling way to find that people you thought were ok are kind of jerks, actually. I saw a lot of people on my feed talking about how Prince was garbage and no one should revere him after he died because he was an addict. I get that these are often people who have been up close to addiction and have been…

Yes. We all work so much, most of us doing a bunch of crap that we mostly don’t like, to run the engine of society. I mean, what is that even for?

Yeah-I think fields where you’re dealing with people in crisis all the time are likely to give you compassion fatigue. My former best friend has been a nurse for a number of years, as are a number of people in her family. They do heroic work, but man, they got no sympathy for no body, at least when it comes to stuff…

My husband started going bald in his early 20s. I’ve never known him with hair. Given the Before pics, that’s for the best. He’s from a rather mulletty part of the world.

That and he looks just like my brother, who will always seem like a kid to me regardless of how old we are.

Iknowrite, like is that my mom or what

If you pretend there aren’t lots of oh, refugees from across the ocean living where you’re at, I guess it’s a problem. But instead of trying to coerce people into reproducing, they could, I dunno, not only support working parents better as stated, but also provide legal residency options for all the people who are…