I’ve seen some people expressing doubt in “anonymous sources” reporting that Trump is more ill than his official doctor says. I will admit that I was doubtful he was sick at all when he first tweeted because I am...very jaded. But it’s important to remember that the New York Times’s and NPR’s standards for quoting…

I don’t love Russell Stover, but I’m not above eating their assorted chocolates when my mom buys them, so I’m also okay with this wedding theme.

This is exactly why my friends always came to MY house. My friends were all still goody two shoes when they returned home, so I think there’s not much harm done going to a more lenient household as long as their parents aren’t, like, handing children cans of beer and turning a blind eye to their experiments with…

For now...but if none of them get seriously ill, then it’s a win for him because he can keep downplaying the seriousness of the virus. And he doesn’t have to debate again.

The whole “don’t parent someone else’s children” thing is odd to me. My parents were great but I’m also glad for the times others stepped in and “parented” me. There were some social norms I was not taught and getting kindly schooled saved me from embarrassment. As a former kid, I don’t think a parent should be…

I feel like most kids understand that they need to follow house rules instinctively, too. A firm, “That is not allowed in our house” usually solves it. If the parent complains about you disciplining their kids, you can just reiterate your point: we have a right to our own house rules. 

Which is possibly the point of releasing that news. 

Lindsay and Stevie broke up in the 70s, but they didn’t break up the band. That happened when Stevie refused to play with Lindsay two and a half years ago. As other commenters have said, can’t really blame her, he’s a massive asshole. Live you life, Stevie.

I get it, I just wish I didn’t. People derive great joy from their own hatred. Being mean to a super model married to a successful musician makes them feel bigger.

A couple of days ago, when she was hospitalized for...a blood clot? I’m not sure, I didn’t read the post super carefully, a lot of comments were pure hate. They were doubting that a medical crisis happened and calling her thirsty for talking about it. She was mentioning that she was scared. She probably posted the…

you are yelling at me about something that happened two-and-a-half years ago?

There haven’t been many jobs in the Humanities for decades. Loving literature, and even being a studious literature grad, does not make jobs — or better paying jobs— suddenly appear.

The reply depends a lot on the university, so I’m just going to stick to what I know.

Yeah, personally, I supported our unionization efforts 100%, but I also thought that the grad student union’s goals were short sighted. I don’t think they should be treated like labor, I think living expenses for grad students should be covered across the board and they should have to teach as part of the program…

I feel like your comment makes graduate students sound like dupes. I know that a lot of graduate students are working at universities across the country to unionize for better wages and benefits when they teach, it’s just not easy to fight a university’s legal team. Another problem is that we were only required to…

The comparison to moving away from a Black person is an absurd and disingenuous, but absolutely fascinating. A Black person is not a toddler, unless, you know, they’re 2-4 years old. Toddlers interact with you. They’re loud. They’re often very germy. Sometimes, they have loud screens/toys and weird snacks that they…

OK but what does this have to do with moving away from children if given the option? I feel like your response, “you must deal with children,” is part in parcel with the weird defensiveness re: those who prefer not to be around children.

In fairness to Filipovic, she realizes what she’s done:

I 100% get you can’t make your kid act perfect all the time, but once it’s affecting me I no longer have to keep quiet.

To celebrate the occasion, let us retell the story of the Schlegal sisters, two other also sort-of German members of the English ruling class, through the magic of Beatrice and Eugenie’s smallest, most whimsical hats.