Article fails to mention that there are no laws in place that punish discrimination against pregnant workers. I’m so fucking sick of global demographic mysteries that have answers screaming in your face. White men shoot up schools and churches because they’re violently bigoted. Mystery solved. There aren’t enough…

Nope. Months of real time. Like six of them. I got to that mission in a few days when they went live back in March. Finally finished it two weeks ago.

Is this going to hit me in the feels like Toy Story 3 did?

Ooh ooh! Ask Caroline Stanbury next!

“I am single,” he said. “Single for life, unless she has four legs. That’s a whole different story.”

I’m not making any particular point, just something that this reminded me of, so take it as you wish.

I know people who tried to adopt and gave up because that process was out of reach financially, logistically (husband was career military on deployment half the time making home visits impossible), and emotionally because the most viable option for the couple were open adoptions and the prospect of taking on a baby…

Thank you for sharing. I hope every state institutes a fund for lunch debt. I didn’t even know it existed, but now that I do, I suspect that many (all?) states have poor folks adding lunch debt to their already head-above-water finances. Paraphrasing Baldwin: it’s very expensive to be poor.

Thank you for your kind words. These are deeply appreciated; more than you can know. That was not a pleasant time, and I’m sending you virtual hugs by the dozen.

My rules for baby names.

fire trucks are red... barns in childhood stories are red. yep, checks out.

My wife and I lost most of our stuff in a moving truck fire when we moved across country, and the first thing we did with our insurance settlement money was get new furniture (obviously). We were SO USED to having a coffee table that it was legitimately a big deal when we decided to get a giant living room sectional…

Brock Long, -telling Fox News that getting aid to the island is “the most logistically challenging event that the United States has ever seen.” 

My favorite last week was the evilness of Joss Whedon for cheating on his wife and how devastatingly fatal to the earth he was and should die. Then a lesbian chimed in that she cheats on women, too, because everybody cheats on everybody. The Jez hive mind did not know what to do with that and presumably brains were…

Responding to myself because FAKE NEWS (or at least outdated.) I just noticed that the list I consulted was compiled in 2013, so I’m sure the rankings have changed. Here’s the list I saw:

Correction to your correction: the medicare levy surcharge kicks in at $90,001 for individuals and $180,000 for families.

Justin Timberlake

The last season of SHEILD was all about Sokovia. I was under the impression that the Netflix shows fall in a timeline sometime after Avengers I, but before Ultron.

You can’t say bomb on an airplane

I could care less about Beyonce. I also think whether or not she had a surrogate is none of our business. The only people it should matter to is Beyonce, her husband, her surrogate (if there was one) and her OB-GYN. It’s a private family matter. Enjoying her music doesn’t give a person a right to intrude on that.