Ha, yes. And gee guys, it isn’t like there is a really important election coming up anytime soon and a unified front behind the strongest candidates and platforms is, you know, a good idea or anything.

Either Bernie or Warren has my primary vote so far. Every time I start to gain any interest in some shift in policy tone that one of the more centrist candidates comes out with, it is rapidly followed by a hit piece in the NYT or Washington Post or the Atlantic that neatly meshes with said tone shift while…

I like this.

I’ve tried for the past two years to come up with a really solid, perfectly formed analogy for what it is like trying to talk to or reason with centrist-right Dems to talk them away from their stale, dying ideologies and I finally hit on one that works: its like trying to tell a cigarette smoker that (1) its a bad…

Long post, please stay with me.

I don’t play video games and I thought it was pretty funny. Probs not to the level a gamer would but, I wasn’t totally lost either. 

Here’s how we handle it when we go to a restaurant and use a card: We tip in cash (because we’d found out a lot of restaurants were taking the CC charges out of the server’s tips and that is a dick move). Whenever possible, we used cash for the entire bill so the parasitic CC companies make nothing on the transaction.…

I was part of a pretty large married or long-term couples no-kids-yet social group (late 90s to early aughts), and we’d have a super fun girls’ night out every couple of months. When it started, we all lived in-town ATL and would choose favorite restaurants or try out hot new local places, enjoying trendy food and…

I doubt he wears underwear.

Yeah, her tone (and the amount they’re asking for, good god) is off-putting and ridiculous, and she’s making some pretty large assumptions in stating her case.

To clarify: I just listened to what they were talking about that day because I’m not educated or involved in practicing law. My takeaway was: Their opinion on new hires was shaped by (some of) these factors (1) who they thought would be more appreciative/loyal to the law firm rather than invested in their own…

My father-in-law (now retired) was one of the best labor lawyers in the country. No joke, offered a spot in the Labor Department by the Obama administration (he said no). Couple of years back he and another hugely successful private practice lawyer were talking about law school grads and they both agreed they’d be way…

The popcorn flavorings, HA!

Whether they were aware or not (and I have some pretty serious doubts about that, I am currently deep in the college prep process with my son/junior in high school, I seriously do not get how the students wouldn’t be aware on some level of the fuckery going on with all of this, legit schools and guidance counselors…

This is AWESOME! One of my oldest friends is a HUGE Trump supporter (he was great and normal until 2016, like so many other people) and he’s also a commercial pilot so I cannot wait to see how he filters this bullshit through his Mobius strip Trumpsplanator bendy brain so it is the exactly right take on the whole…

I can see that. But I’d respond the way I usually respond to just about every marketing ploy designed to make people feel inadequate or defensive, which is DON’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO. Also, I love cooking. No one can make me feel anything but fantastic about cooking, it is my zen and my happy place. And if I sub in…

The Atlantic posts a lot of troubling bullshit lately. Sunday their FB page posted two stories that basically promoted the idea that cooking at home was either a waste of time or an attempt to keep women under a patriarchal thumb of some sort. WTF? Cook at home if you like to, order out if you don’t, either way, it…

My brother is a pathological liar. Late in life he was diagnosed bipolar as well as at least one of the Cluster B personality disorders. It is the personality disorder that makes him so destructive and toxic.

In other words, walls don’t work.

Just curious what people are paying for avocados, as here in ATL I picked up a lovely Haas today for 79¢ at our local farmer’s market. Sometimes they are a little pricier but that’s about average, really.