The Other Side is a wonderful book! I’ve been reading it to my students this week. It’s subtle--there are multiple opportunities for children to practice their inference skills.   —school librarian

IS THIS THE CUTEST BABY OR WHAT

Hey everyone! I’m so glad to be SNS-ing tonight because I’m alive, and home from a week in a local hospital’s ICU! Things looked grim a week ago, when the doctor in the ER thought that I had had not one but two heart attacks, and in any event, I was in heart failure. Right??? Terrifying!

Ssounds like those 2 have more in common than originally thought.

fuck

There are no good BART stories

The 70s were a more optimistic time apparently.

Once on the bus, I was sitting in a seat that faced another seat. Anyway, this old lady gets on the bus and sits across from me. Suddenly, she very calmly pulls out a clear plastic bag from her purse and starts *vomiting* in it. She fills the clear bag with vomit, and has just enough room to hold it shut. She just…

I’m pretty sure there was at least one article form Jezebel that said the right thing and then immediately went back to vegetative state.

I don’t think it is at all clear. Doctors and her tribe are saying one thing, the family is saying a different thing. Reporters should be reporting truth, so whose account should they side with?

A Fine Day For Bananafish is still breathtaking to me.

You just described my exact mindset, except I have a husband (also no kids, very happy never wanting them) but no horses. Everything in my life - job, husband, living situation - is very much how I want it (except I want horses), but I’m so sick of myself. And my grandmother just turned 101 and people are like “you’re…

What do you do when you’re fed up with everything and can only look forward to your weekly visits to the horse barn? I have a really nice secure job that, when I talk about it, I do get happy that I have it and feel good about it, and I do have a decent family, even if I never had a relationship or kids (do not want…

But you’re conflating sex and gender by saying a male person can become a female person. Their main point is “female” and “woman” are different things. So a trans woman can be a “woman”, but never a “female”. Thus the anger about things like calling abortion rights activism or wearing pink “pussy” hats to a march…

I feel like we could be skort-wearing, fashionable friends. 

I love her. And I am amazed by the number of people with all these odd-ball growths that are coming out of the woodwork to find salvation at her hands.
The pops, the squeezes, the slicing off of the nose growths -- all give me great satisfaction in this age of great anxiety. Now if she could just squeeze that big blob…

Check-Mate:

Gwinnet County, Georgia investigators are giving Ketan Shah until Sunday to give his side of a story that currently has him accused of swindling almost a dozen people out of over $750,000 in a Super Bowl tickets scam that has been going for months

So this guy is on the run? That must make him the Shah of Iran.

It just used to involve setting the shutter timer and scurrying over to strike a natural-looking pose before the shutter clicked.