wont do anything. youll just end up dropping what you are doing every few minutes to run over with the bottle and by the time you get to them, theyll have escaped. youll go back to whatever you were doing and will repeat this two minutes later. rinse repeat. they will also get on stuff when you are not home.

friday to saturday, the night. the knowledge to have 2 free days in front of. you know, saturday morning or noon, you wake up, relaxed. drink the good coffee. have time to do nothing. no one is yelling or waiting. maybe you feel a little bored, but thats good.

No way, happiest time is friday, the moment you get home from work and crack that first weekend beer.

"... akin to moving your lips when reading."

I would suggest whomever told you only stupid people did that was incorrect. My experience is that thoughtful people, people who wish to truly understand, and who think about things, thus having a rich inner life, do that.

..where’s the fun if everything is planned?

Thanks for this article.

Thomas sleeps through oral arguments, famously. He then signs onto whichever opinion is the most hateful. A credit to the bench, that tool.

Scalia is a flaming turd, obviously.

It’s the vampiric smartwatch you never asked for.

I’m not into visual porn; smutty writing does it for me. But enough people raved about him that I gave it a try, once. He spat in the woman’s face and simulated raping her - no thanks. Not into guys who even pretend to enjoy that shit, and if that makes me not sex-positive, I can live with that.

I was punished for either expressing anger or crying, as well as for what Dad called “being too honest”. I’m female, and I agree that the author’s experience was unfair. Among other things, he was being taught NEVER to get angry, NOT how to CONTROL anger! Poor kid.

I have to try that. I really need to learn how to do it without it seeming like a capitulation on my part.

I learned how to fight so I didn't have to play Jedi mind games with myself to justify the torment. Fix the cause rather than succumbing to the weakness society preaches.

This is a classic case of "If it sounds too good to be true..." I took a pricey course many years ago called "Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics." Complete waste of time and money.

Gotcha. Thank you for clarifying.

Thanks. Everything after the first clause of my first sentence was really more of a general reaction to the assumed p.o.v. of the author, who writes from a Buddhist perspective. This isn't the first article I've read by him and compassion is a foundation principle in Buddhism. Maybe I'll always be a bad secular…

Yeah, but sometimes people are just assholes because they are spoiled and privileged and have always gotten what they wanted.

It doesn't hurt to try to imagine someone else's reality, but if what they're doing is injurious to you and wrong, compassion doesn't solve the problem. I've been studying meditation and secular Buddhism on and off for a while and this concept is difficult for me. Nor do I think, as someone more experienced would tell…

Unfortunately none of the above will remedy my current predicament.