So proud to be in Whitmire's district!

Ha! I lived on Taft and Stratford up until a few months ago when I moved in with the bf. So former neighbors, I guess.

I'm in midtown. Neighbors?

My boyfriend decided to use the pavement as a slip'n'slide this morning when he was cycling, so I googled "ask a clean person blood stains" mere hours ago. I should have just come here! Fortunately I was able to find your hairpin article.

I may have phrased myself poorly.

I think this is a difference between removing due to ethics ("does this violate our policy?") and removing due to fraud ("this 100% violates our policies."). It was easy justify quickly removing the Kobe beef project because it was a scam, but removing something like this book requires additional discussion. Even…

Often times fetal abnormalities like Down syndrome aren't discovered until 18 weeks, at the earliest. Additional testing may also be required, which could easily put you very close to, if not over, the 20 week mark. The bill proposed didn't have an exception for this situation.

I think it's a bra? The top looks shear to me.

Um... I fall into the "normal" BMI range but wear a size 14 pant because I'm 5'10" and pear-shaped. If I gain 10 pounds, chances are no off-the-rack pants will fit me. So quit assuming all plus-sized wearers are fatty fat asses.

I have the same name as my mother because my dad thought that one child should be named after one of them. I'm ok with it as a name, but I don't like sharing it. But I assume I would have gotten my father's name had I been a boy. John. Boringest of all boring names.

Pants are plural in Romance languages too, though. See: pantalones (Spanish) and pantaloni (Italian).

Pants used to be in three pieces - two legs and a codpiece of sorts.

NPR did put theirs better. The back pocket veto is an excellent point.

They do 1040EZs for free at H&R block.

There are actually some really good life insurance policies that work like that! I have some clients who it made more sense to do things that way versus a Roth IRA or 529 plan. But if you can't afford it, then it makes 0 sense. They're not cheap! And it sounds like they didn't explain it very well, either. Just don't…

I was speaking more to the series 7 than series 65/66. I should have phrased that better but I was typing on my phone and got lazy. What I should have said was "If someone is only licensed by their state insurance agency and is calling themselves a financial advisor, they are likely an insurance salesman." I have had…

I'm a financial advisor (and also a lady). A lot of people don't know what they're doing and need help. It's not just women. There are bad financial advisors, but not all of us are out to get you and make you feel stupid. There are a lot of people (like myself) who honestly want to help and educate our clients. Just…

I don't watch it. Because I don't want to. But like mommy_dearest said, there definitely is pressure to be into it.

That is a really great way of thinking. Thanks for sharing with me, because it's a really valid point. And it's something that my boyfriend and I like to stress in many facets of our relationship: couples do not need to share everything with each other all the time. I don't know why it didn't hit me that that's the…

I agree with pretty much all of this. Thank you. I never do things that I don't want to do because of peer pressure, but there is always this voice in the back of my mind telling me that I need to. Especially because that stuff leeches into guys' brains and they end up wanting it because it's the new normal, so it's…