We have a 75% Bernese mix and the bark is honestly incredible. He’s the biggest fluffy sweetheart in the world but he is a legit great watchdog.

Uzo is the best! She deserves all good things.

My husband is a musicologist and was pretty psyched that you talked to musicologists for this article! And yeah - he listens to bardcore as background music.

I actually wonder if part of the “cure” language being used with ASD is because some symptoms overlap so heavily with ADHD and mood disorders (especially in children) and the other two are so treatable that we have conflated “pop a pill and your ADHD is all better” with ASD.

I have a child who is not neurotypical but…

I met him way back then too. He and Matt Damon were actually playing poker at a divey campus bar in Boston while the sox were in the playoffs or something. He asked where I was from, and I said Indiana, and he, no joke, got all excited about Larry Bird and asked if I’d ever been to French Lick (Bird’s hometown). It…

I did audition for MMC in the early 90s! I even made a cut and did a round in Orlando. My parents said no and it broke pre-teen me’s heart. In the late 90s I was still flirting with the idea of performing and folks were still looking for the “next Britney”. I remember this other girl and I were sort of both meeting…

I hated this book (probably because I was a blue collar midwesterner who felt like a total outsider at a ritzy New England school) - but I appreciate the start/stop. I was the same w/ Atonement and now feel like I need to finish every book in case it is the best thing I’ve ever read.

ETA - I Heart your user name! 

I should probably clarify that I don’t think Trump has enough wherewithal to have come up with it, or even understood the significance when it was suggested. But I do believe once someone told him “Tulsa on Juneteenth because . . . “ he probably rubbed his hands gleefully together like a cartoon villain and was all on…

UGH - This is like the gazillionth thing filed this to “Things I had double check weren’t really an Onion headline” since this presidency began. I believe that Trump is far gone enough to not have any idea what is going on. I believe that Pence is oblivious enough to not know of the existence of Juneteenth. But the…

We are living this exact thing right now and I have to tell you - we do feel like suckers. And the pandemic has given it even greater clarity. We are working longer hours than ever while also trying to educate our children at home. We moved for jobs so we have no family help and we can’t even get chicken at the…

But also humans are good? We’ve got multiple groups in NW Ohio running food to school children and their families, and extra toilet paper to folks who need it, and organizing the sewing of masks for our hospitals and offering various tutoring on-line for student who can’t afford to drop behind. It is so hard, and I…

I was in your shoes about six years ago - it was so hard. We were in the red for about six months before we broke even and then eventually got through to having a little bit of money again. I say this with all the love and support that I can send across the interwebs - you will get through this and you are heroic! And…

“unintentionally erasing voters who are less motivated by revolutions or big structural change.” I think the voters are just erased by circumstances of life. I’m pretty good with big structural change and our household has been donating to Warren weekly for months. But I’m in my late 30s, college educated, suburban…

thanks!

I hope that if you abstain from voting for the president that you still vote in all the down ballot races!

I think your analysis is spot on and I actually like Joe Biden (but totally understand why others do not). As someone living in MI where Trump won 2016 by a mere 40k votes or something insane - Biden makes so much sense as the national candidate (as did Klobuchar). I’m a big believer in the idea of running the most…

They were absolutely being ding dongs - they were taking the shout your abortion line and turning it up to 11. But I think my point is - they aren’t the only ding dongs in the world and people like my mother don’t want to be associated with them (even if she would NEVER vote for a republican). It reminds me of…

It might be garbagy - but it is astute. There are a lot of anti-choice democrats who aren’t feeling so welcomed anymore.

My own (liberal, civil rights marching, lifelong lgbtq+ supporting) mother has stopped calling herself pro-choice because a couple of younger cousins were trying to get her to agree that abortions…

I hypnobirthed both of mine and also felt it really helpful. I ended up having two fast labors (10 hours and 4 hours) despite my giant 10lb babies and figured it was because I was so relatively relaxed for most of dilation. Don’t get me wrong, crowning was not painless for me - but the whole process felt purposeful,…

and really sour things! I keep some extra sour warheads in my desk for days when I feel panic setting in.