Holiday pay for Black Friday as well?! That is awesome!

I am so excited for you! This will be my 13th annual meatless TG (and my 6th annual vegan TG). I haven’t tried TJ’s fake roast but I’m sure it will be good! Gardein also makes one that has been a huge hit with my meat-eating and veggie family members alike.

My husband works on Thanksgiving (I used to as well until recently) so I like to make a mini-TG dinner for breakfast. We’ll be having a roast, pumpkin pie, and sweet potato casserole - just the essentials (his favorite holiday dish, mine, and an actual food item because our favorite dishes are dessert lol). The…

I don’t have much to add that anyone else hasn’t already said, but I wanted to let you know that I see you, and I’m so sorry. To echo other comments, if you have access to counseling I would strongly, strongly recommend it. Lean on your friends and family as much as you can, but adding a professional listener to your…

I remember the starred/unstarred system. It was so arbitrary.

This. Almost like trying to get “likes” on social media, only the “likes” are critical to your very visibility. I avoid social media in large part because of its performative aspects, and I found myself taking a long break from Jezebel after realizing that commenting here oftentimes felt much the same.

I was about to make a comment about how some trees can honestly be very expensive because they take years to grow but then I did a double take at that price tag. $300k? Yeah, no!

There’s an additional component to that logic which bothers me as well. If they automatically got into heaven merely by virtue of being shot in God’s house, the flip side of that implies that victims of shootings that occur outside of a church don’t get a fast pass into Heaven. I just don’t think getting killed in…

Good lord, lookit some of these responses! I guess that’ll learn you to leave off the /s. Yeesh.

I’m not sure how someone commits an act of violence on this scale without being mentally ill. It’s not like he punched some guy who pissed him off. He shot up an entire church full of people - and it has come to light that his ex-in-laws sometimes attended this church. No mentally healthy person deals with things this…

This is gonna be a long story, and perhaps this isn’t the best place to share it, but I have been dealing with a lot and really feel compelled by your comment to share just exactly how Trump and his administration have directly impacted my mental health.

Your mom has nerves of steel, or something. I’d have peed myself.

It very well could be but I’ve also heard that it is an actual thing that people in general are well-conditioned to be polite - even when we think something is off. Unfortunately that works against us in terms of safety.

Your story scared me so bad last year that I can’t even read it again. I just skimmed it and I’m already jittery.

Well clearly your other cat teleported!

At first I chuckled and thought immediately that the cat had done it, although I couldn’t figure how. Then it slowly occurred to me that maybe the cat had scared it off for you. The shushing noise makes me think the cat was hissing and I don’t think it was at you. Now I’m really freaked out.

Jesus. Dozer helped saved your life.

I forgot to mention that the purpose of what I like to call earning “karmic brownie points” is actually to give it away. Not to keep it so I can be rich next time. But to give it to others, so they can suffer a little less, both now and in the future.

I think you have an overly simplistic, but very common view of reincarnation. It’s somewhat analogous to Catholics who think going to confession means they can do whatever they like without consequence while ignoring all the parts about good works and kindness. Or others who use faith to justify bad things. No. There…

It saddens me when Buddhism influences people to feel that way (or when any faith is used to make a person feel badly). It’s a form of mental self-flagellation and does no good to anyone. When did any Buddha ever say to blame oneself? I feel like it could be much easier to follow the principle of simply doing the best…