A co-worker is getting married for the fourth time at age ~36,she has been posting constantly about marrying the love of her life, her current fiancé. The very public and long celebration of a marriage is something I’m always uncomfortable with, but is she just pretending the last fifteen years never happened? Isn’t…

Yeah, it’s the multiple marriages after spectacularly public cheating scandals. Why does he even get married? Why not have an open marriage? Either he deludes himself that he can be faithful, or he enjoys hurting people. I vote for b.

Their such a great twitter!

I had a conversation with a co-worker who is from puerto rico and it made me recall that the Puerto Rican economy is in crisis due to a combination of stunningly shortsided bond issues, US tax and bankruptcy policies, and predatory hedge funds. It just struck me that this crisis has been going on for months now and…

I have a feeling the word complicit is going to spike in usage over the next few years.

Mara Liason, the White House press corp member for NPR, noted that all of his big statements circle back to the election and his big victory. He is truly stuck in that moment. Obama has def. broken his brain. I think we are also seeing the limits of a counterpunch strategy. He’s no longer a scrappy outsider, and these…

A little aside the main point, but when I was growing up we moved into a house that had been wallpapered in entirely bicentennial themed wallpaper. Weirdest decor you could imagine, Uncle Sam repeated in the dining room, the whole shebang. My parents removed so much wallpaper, but never got around to the back half of…

Ours at least is just collecting the data not rewarding people for hitting particular numbers, that really sucks, especially when bmi is a bit too simply calculated to directly correlate to health for everyone. My 6 ft+ muscly runner friend was told his BMI was too high, even though is at a very low body fat…

no wine for you! It cuts into work time! I tried the phone coaching program, I wanted to focus on fitness and stress reduction, the coach was obviously geared towards my risk areas on their matrix, which was my weight. Even when I said that my weight gain was primarily caused by stress and poor sleep, the coach kept…

What I don’t understand is are there routine genetic screenings that are now common? I’ve never had one, the only people I know who have did specific tests for BRCA for breast cancer and one who (thank God!) tested negative for Huntington’s Disease. Would they screen for hundreds of conditions like that? Do we even…

Yes. My employer has a wellness program that we are required to partake in (or you pay more on health insurance). It isn’t too bad—basically get a indicator of key health metric twice a year rather than at an annual physical. I wonder how long it is before there are penalties for smoking, for being overweight, or for…

So not me, but my best friend had an irregularity show up on a screening a couple of years ago that turned out to NOT be cancer. The week and a half she had to wait to get in totally sucked too. Please try to remember there is a reason they do diagnostic follow-ups, it is because our breasts can have many types of…

I was trying to think which of the season three episodes were my favorite (I think Dopplegangland, I love wickedness connoted by outfit). It was a perfect season and totally paid off the three years building this rich high school world. In the first or second episode, when poor Larry promised that if there were fewer…

YOUr deep knowledge of sonic the hedgehog twitter is why I love kinja.

I may be reading it too generously, but I thought he was pointing out that his wife does more of the childcare on a regular basis?

This is an excellent reason for marijuana to be administered under a dr’s care. A careful dose and monitoring can really make a difference in catching a problem before it gets to serious. I sympathize with Davidson, Crohn’s disease can be very painful.

So I don’t think Kellyanna Conway deserves anything but contempt mixed with wariness at her magical powers at shopping Trump’s awful policies. I’m opposed to memes based on her looks or jokes about her on her knees I need the Oval Office for two reasons: (1) I don’t want any women mocked for their appearance or called…

I’ve been disappointed by the Republican members of congress as well. I thought that they would stand in opposition to Trump’s excesses as most of his signature policies are not particularly republican, and his disrespect for judges, the intelligence community, and armed forces I thought for sure would have the, up in…

I agree, high quality care for kids doesn’t happen overnight and it def. doesn’t happen for free. I want to be clear that I am not disparaging the people who work for CPS, I’ve gotten to know many through a nonprofit funding panel I serve on and I’ve seen many who are both loving and fierce advocates for kids. They…

Agreed, it is also very sad that no one looked for him for months.