Yeah, I think a big part of Kate’s appeal for William was that she already knew he was a cheater. She wasn’t blind to it/young and naive like his mom was when she married Charles.

It also makes the stakes extremely high for everything they do. Even the faintest hint of rumors about either one of them—but especially William—will hang around like a bad stink.

There is no way Mary is happy with that statement. But she can’t lose her cool about it publicly or she’ll make her bébé romaine grumpy again.

It’d be weirder if she answered the same prompts differently each time.

Stranger things have happened, but she was pretty close to a well-traveled/camped road to have died of exposure. She would have been able to see campers driving up and down the road and flag someone down even if she’d wandered off into the wild bits. There are other missing persons in the Tetons, but I assume they’ve…

I think this makes a certain amount of sense. The handful of nurses in my friend orbit who are vaccine hesitant but politically and ideologically diverse are probably just giving me weirdly skewed data on the topic. On the other hand, it seems like there were a lot of interesting responses in the grays but I can’t…

I agree with this list, and it’s a good list. But I’m hoping that someone who is a nurse can speak to vaccine hesitancy in that profession in particular.

Predominantly, for sure. But I know two staunch and vocal small town Democrats, one who is a nurse and one who is married to a nurse, who refuse to be vaccinated. The one who is married to a nurse is pregnant. Both were close friends ten years ago and back then I would have said that they were very smart people. If…

Yeah, Lorde is from New Zealand. She may have a much different idea of what is an acceptable risk re: COVID protocols and performing. I wouldn’t be surprised if the VMAs do not meet her standards (and good for any artist who refuses on those grounds).

You would be shocked by how many people (especially younger people) don’t know about medicated abortions. If there were an ad campaign to raise awareness (esp on social media platforms), I would donate to it.

Oh, didn’t read that carefully enough, thanks. Fair warning to her, then! It sucks, but the instructor had some integrity there.

I also follow Karen Attiah on Twitter. She’s good.

Harvard absolutely will not affected by this. All Harvard Extension programs are a scam, though. It’s not a “real” (i.e. socially accepted) degree: it’s an ALM. What the fuck is an ALM? You feel like you’re getting a Masters because everything on the website SAYS Masters but then the transcript, the degree itself, is…

I did not know she passed and now I feel ILL. I loved this series. It made me laugh out loud. I distinctly remember getting in trouble during silent reading time in the seventh grade in Catholic school because I couldn’t keep it together when the little sister shat down the slide in the public pool. Then, when asked…

A year ago we were all railing that opening schools was going to kill all the teachers and the kids.

Yes, I’ve seen another adoption play out in that way, too. It was about three years in total, and eighteen months where they’d known for certain they’d be able to legally adopt the child before it was finalized. Pretty cool if they’re going this route! 

Having known a couple of people who have been through the adoption process, I’m a little surprised they’re announcing before the adoption is finalized. Adoptions fall through all the time. You can have a little more certainty if you’re adopting out of foster care and there aren’t caregivers in the child’s life who are…

And yet, by 1920 the US started raising the age of consent to 18 years old, so they knew this was all pretty fucked up. Glorifying illegal practices is major feature of a lot of popular music. They did it because they could do it, not because they genuinely thought there was nothing wrong with sleeping with 12-16 year…

I still can’t believe they gave this creepy misogynist hack a fucking Nobel prize for literature. Not the thing to focus on, I know, but every time I think about the authorization of his problematic lyrics, I get angry all over again. Because men like him contribute to a culture that abuses women.

Same. I mean, it is sad, but the reality is that most people in this country do not read books. I think these keyboard warriors could be more intentional by directing their readers to more nuanced articles (and book links! why not) in their posts.