Save yourself- seriously, 100% save yourself. Some people just need to take you down with them to feel better about themselves. 

I cut off a sibling a couple of years ago and it’s like a weight has lifted. I don’t have to emotionally take on the self-inflicted drama and even better the constant guilting that I’m not doing enough to ‘support’ even though nothing was ever enough and any (asked for) advice about how not to create a complete new (ag…

I think that’s actually part of it. These people were willing to buy into those prosthetics- he could have made them much more convincing, but as long as he was selling that cool-aid, they were willing to overlook an obvious disguise. They’re that deeply in. 

What particularly worries me about this story is it’s about the policing of women’s bodies, which is becoming more and more rampant. If this woman had left a gun out and toddler had shot himself or rolled over in her sleep and suffocated the baby, or just about any other tragedy, she wouldn’t be facing any or at least …

Especially hard to sell if it’s losing money. 

This! I came down for a light smack down on the authors for that too. 

I can’t believe I’m going to (through a shaky memory) defend McAdams character from this really manipulative and unhealthy movie, but in the article above they play up that her issue is class and that’s not how I remember it. Because her mom hid all his letters, he dumped her in HER mind in a really callous way. She…

I remember watching the movie and thinking, “Run girl, run!” at their ‘meet cute.’ 

The old couple is played by Gina Rowlands and James Garner- who are amazing actors- hence the unwilling crying imo. They make that happen, not the unhealthy love story of the young couple.

Ugh, this whole saga is awful. As an old, I thank anything holy that this technology was not around when I was younger and more likely to fall afoul of it. This guy does deserve some condemnation because he’s fanning the flames with all his media appearances and heart emojis and dipshit non-denials of the mile high…

And it would take us time to ramp down. There is no real threat of a sudden invasion which NATO couldn’t respond to if they chose to do so. We have tons more military capacity than we need and are not going to cut it by 90% or something. If NATO is just hanging on our coattails and they feel a legitimate threat,…

That argument is based on the assumption that NATO allies agree that they would have to bulk up their spending if we cut down on ours and I don’t know that they do. The US could cut back substantially and NATO could come to the conclusion that there was still plenty of defense to go around. Our choice to over…

The LW said there was an hour wait for tables, so somebody (ideally the manager) should have told them that tables are for people eating dinner and they’d be welcome at the bar- 9 hours is insane. 

Restaurant sized bag of spinach- cook- single serving. :)

I need to stand up and defend S. Cal here and stamp down this scurrilous rumor- they do give you saurkraut, just ask when you order. I’m unreasonably bummed if they stop with the Polish :(

His shitty behavior was pretty well known if underappreciated. I was talking to an industry person I know several years ago and, germane to the conversation, I idly asked, “Oh, is Spacey really gay then?” (I thought it was possibly just the gossip you get about lots of people) and he was like, “OH YEAH. He’s always…

Here’s a WHO report on worldwide drownings in summary. The main factor in drowning numbers is wealth not one specific cultural region. If you live in a poorer country or are poor in a rich country, you are far more likely to not know how to swim and drown. Parents across all the high drowning regions attempt to keep…

It’s not a cultural thing, it’s a poverty and opportunity thing. It’s true that people in most of Asia don’t swim. It’s also true that people in most of the world who are poor and don’t have access to safe swimming locations (or just poor really) also don’t swim. Where are these poor countries where everyone can swim?…

Lucky you, I live in the region and I assure you the pollution and disease in the Mekong is problematic. While swimming lessons are a great goal, they are not a primary concern for most people- especially those living in the part of the country the absolute furthest distance from the sea. The coastline is long, but on…

While I encourage everyone who possibly can to swim, it’s not just backward thinking. The Mekong is very contaminated. Liver and heart flukes are particularly a problem in non-swift running water- the kind you’d learn to swim in. Chang Rai is about 15-20 hours from the ocean- they don’t have great beaches and calm…