It is really interesting. I think it’s the difference between the American Myth and the American reality. Over half of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck, which is certainly a different fraction than when I was growing up, even accounting for our beneficent life circumstances. As real incomes have fallen steadily…

That’s a remarkable story. Children know a lot more than we give them credit for.

You know, we are quite comfortable, to the point of being wealthy, but radiant floor heating seems like the ultimate luxury to me. OMG, my grandparents had it in their house, not because it was luxurious, but because they lived in Southern California in a house purpose-built in the 1960's when electricity was…

It really is weird trying to keep your kids’ feet on the ground without lying to them. We live in an upscale but racially and income-mixed university town, and his public school has over half the kids getting free lunches. We live very modestly, mostly because I hate to shop. We have a nice house in a nice…

This is a good point.

OMG, the Debut Ball! I got invited to one, too, even though my parents were not nearly as well-off as yours — chi-chi private school stuff. And my parents were a little less skinflit-ey than yours. But I had a lot of conflict with my Dad the first couple of years of college, and when I came home on vacation and…

This news feels very Max Headroom to me. (Yes, I know I am an old.) So sad.

Now, I didn’t know that! It’s complicated, isn’t it? I mean, I have a vague memory of it from college, but it’s very vague. Lots of stuff going on in India, I guess. Just like the US, it’s a mistake to think of such a huge country as being monolithic.

Yeah! Doesn’t that constitute having to work in a hostile work environment?

There are abuelas selling bacon-wrapped hot dogs outside the Hollywood Bowl?Damn. I am obviously not living my best life! 

Probably. One hesitates to consider. It seems to me that protest at the state level is going to be important here.

I am trying to become excited about being part of the Subsequent Greatest Generation. I have a tenuous hold on this concept.

It’s a masterwork. I notably bookmarked and computer-archived a copy, I also buffed and printed one out. I’m keeping it with my Indivisible Guide!

This was great idea. Too bad it didn’t work!

It doesn’t matter if he releases the results. Or whether he tells the truth about them, either. No reasonable person is going to take his word for stuff like that anymore. But lying on the survey and providing fake addresses will cost his PAC or whomever time and money. Plus, it will make him look like a fool,…

I don’t want to discuss it too much, but it has to do with Alaskan Fish and Game rules changes. Just as important, I think, as our immediate and concerted response to Cheeto Hitler’s immigration bans is a hard and fast response to the evisceration of wildlife, species, and environmental protection laws. In Alaska,…

Good lord.

It’s pretty grim, isn’t it?

I am going to do just that. When you said ‘follow’, did you mean on Twitter?

I know.