And whether or not Jen was pregnant.

Gotcha. Well, then i guess it comes back to “reliably unforgettable” as the main criteria...

I think he was just trying to say he didn’t want a flashy luxury vehicle? It’s confusing to me too. I work in a client-facing industry and I often go to people’s houses for meetings. When I bought my car, yea, it was in the back of my head that clients were going to see it, but only insofar as I didn’t want a total…

Exactly, the dispatcher was probably trying to figure out if they were sending EMTs for a psych visit or an ER visit or if they really needed animal control. It’s got to be a weird call to try to parse, especially since there’s not a lot of overlap between specialties there!

To be fair-if anyone in my life called me and said they found a well-fed tiger in a suburban garage, I’d at least gently question if drugs were involved. I would imagine dispatch was probably going along with the caller saying they were high on pot but probably figured if they were hallucinating a tiger something much…

Salt in all forms and all colors is delicious and wonderful and should put liberally on all foods. 

yea HBO wasn’t afraid of Scientology lawyers-something tells me the Jackson estate doesn’t scare them either. 

True, as I said I grew up Reform so I didn’t want to make a mistake in referencing the other branches.

Good point! I grew up Reform, so while I knew the Conservative movement has become more LGBT friendly, I didn’t know enough to comment or include them-didn’t want to stick my foot in my mouth! 

I can’t speak to protestants. But the overarching Reform Judaism org is 100% LGBT friendly, so you’d be very unlikely to find a Reform synagogue that wasn’t gay friendly. It’s not as corporate as Catholics but all Reform rabbis are trained and taught under the URJ rules which explicitly welcome/support/champion LGBT…

I would check with an attorney. I’m in NJ and we opted for the adoption even though I am on my son’s birth certificate. We did it as a “belt and suspenders” type thing. Probably good that we did since his mom and I ended up splitting up (note that in NJ the adoption did not matter, what mattered is that we were both…

Right. In which case a phone number STILL doesn’t help. I would get it if they discreetly tried to place the sign in/near payphone areas, but payphones don’t exist, so...are they hoping someone will tap on the stall and ask to borrow the neighbor’s cell phone like a square of toilet paper?

I think if it gets worry-betes then you just need to get it on a regimen of worry-insulin.

Ooh thanks! All queued up to listen on my way home!

So it’s kind of like the phone numbers in the Las Vegas airport that tell you to call them if you’re a victim of human trafficking? Even though chances are, if you’re trying to escape trafficking in an airport, you’re either not alone or you don’t have a goddamn phone handy. 

Just ordered one for my kid. I love this! He tends to overthink a lot of things (especially when he learns about science-he once spent a week fretting that scientists were wrong and the sun might go out sooner than they thought). This is such a cool idea!

Exactly! We were lucky it was simple and we could afford it, but it still sucked...and there’s many families for whom the cost of IVF is enough of a burden.

Yup. I’m on my kids birth certificate and I still had to go to court to adopt him. Thank god we’re in a state where that was procedural-the biggest issue was that it cost money, but it was a streamlined and foregone conclusion...plus we had a super nice judge who went out of her way to acknowledge and celebrate two…

Maybe we need a rescue charity to adopt abandoned nuns. My gay jewish ass would totally do it.

Good timing on this. I just started using a rowing machine at home after enjoying my gym’s Concept D. I did not buy a nice Concept D, I bought a cheap “Sunny health and fitness” brand one from Amazon. My logic is this: I’m going to be able to work on rowing form and cardio endurance, I get to learn if I am going to…