I found out that the woman who did my hair for my wedding two years ago recently attempted to style her straw for a morning show appearance, and now I feel like she’s haunting my wedding pictures.

And not that I think it’s OK to tell women to smile under normal circumstances, but her husband is being inaugurated! She’s becoming the first lady! Is she so grossed out about touching a black person that she can’t muster a half smile?

I told my husband just this morning that punching Jason Chaffetz in the face is at the top of my bucket list.

Yes, same, and I was legit worried we’d permanently broken his dick.

I’d say believing that being president is the same as being a CEO of a shitty, frequently bankrupt company is a sign of idiocy.

I’m not sure if I read the same article or a different one, but the chairs (all or most of whom are women of color, I think) came on board after it became clear that the mostly-white women who started planning on Facebook actually didn’t have the experience or knowledge to plan a major protest. And, early on, one of…

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She is that, too - another commenter described her as overwrought, and that certainly applies!

She writes and talks about Jesus all the time, and is adamant about Christianity being about acceptance and inclusivity and humility and working to end oppression. I think she (and many other progressive Christians) would very urgently like to change “what we would think of as Christian” and I think that’s an…

I had a second grader who wrote “fock you” in marker in several places in my classroom. Unfortunately for him, the rest of the class had already learned the difference between short u and short o.

I took my 1-year-old son with me to vote this morning and was surprised at how emotional it was. I still remember going to vote for Mondale/Ferraro with my mother when I was six.

Yes. I am sure that cranberries don’t actually do anything to cure UTIs, but as someone who’s gotten them pretty regularly for as long as I can remember, my routine at the slightest hint of a UTI is:

I don’t think that’s necessarily true. I’m sure there is research on this. Adolescents (and pre-adolescents) are incredibly impulsive. In some cases, for sure, a suicidal person will find a way. But having easy access to a gun makes it so easy to act at the height of emotion, whereas someone who had to make a plan and…

Not to be creepy stalkerish but I think it’s possible my mother-in-law complimented you on this costume last weekend - if that’s Greenwood. Super adorable!

Yes, unfortunately.

She said that she didn’t know at the time that the hospital was Catholic and that it was religious doctrine that was making them repeatedly turn her away. Do you think the nurses were telling her that she could get treatment if she went somewhere else? Not likely, because then they would be complicit in helping her…

But the Vice President only votes to break ties in the Senate, and doesn’t author or sponsor legislation.

Me too. It reminded me of being in the airport security line and sighing when the man in front of me at the metal detector started in on his third round of pulling receipts from his pockets and sorting them, while holding up the entire line, which prompted him to yell at me for the entire time it took both of us to…

Also, diapers are disgusting no matter what. And somehow we always had way worse blow-outs (that necessitated handling and laundering poopy clothes) with disposables than with cloth. But cloth definitely requires a big upfront financial investment plus time plus easy access to a washer/dryer (or a service, like we…

Seriously, they should market it as a developmental tool. My baby’s hand-eye coordination advances by at least 4 months whenever he sees that thing coming for him.