Yep. At this point, I fully expect my 12-year-old daughter to be voting age before there’s another woman on the ballot. And I’m half convinced it’ll be Nikki Haley. (The other half thinks it’ll be Ivanka Trump.)

Especially since it’s only been three or four days, and it’s Christmas week. Nobody’s going to be looking for Tyrell that hard until after the new year.

This gives me flashbacks to Sleepy Hollow. That show started to suck right about the time it fired Orlando, too.

We’ve moved past depression and into existential nihilism at the fact the country is being fucked over to serve the personal interests of a complete and utter shit piece of reality show trash and 40% of the voting population is actively cheering it on. Try to keep up.

Gotta say — the nastier billionaires get about Warren, the more excited I am to vote for her. She seems to be the only candidate who the extremely rich think will significantly impact their lifestyle, and that to me is a big point in her favor.

So I thought the Sarah Dessen book I read was pretty good, and she probably shouldn’t be used as a stand-in for Everything Wrong with Literature. And I agree with Weiner’s general point that books by women are sometimes criticized more harshly than books by men. But good lord, all of the authors quoted here need to…

No Please Like Me?

When I tried them, I thought of some kind of cinnamon candy -- maybe Red Hots. But having read the comments and clues below, I’m sold on churro.

Doctors aren’t psychic. It’s pretty common for them to offer the worst-case scenario resulting from a given diagnosis as a way to make sure the family is prepared. Also, I’m going to guess that Ukraine in 2003 wasn’t exactly the most disability-positive place to be born.

You would think, but the articles I read say that this would be the first birth certificate with no mother listed. I don’t know how it works for abandoned infants — maybe there’s a distinction, administratively speaking, between “unknown” and just a blank space.

Why would it make things any harder than his preferred solution of listing him as the father, and no one at all as the mother? Schools, pediatricians, etc. are used to dealing with children who have no legal father — this would be the first child with no legal mother.

I sympathize. My daughter’s also 12 and has taken to announcing that she’s bisexual. I’m torn between wanting to be open and accepting, and feeling like it’s information her brother’s babysitter doesn’t necessarily need to have.

Part of it may be that she looks relatively “natural,” by pop star standards. It’s not exactly rare for an Italian woman to have olive skin and curly dark hair. This is her with her brother, so it seems to just be what their family looks like. I’m not sure how she could avoid seeming racially ambiguous short of…

Does this have any implications for transwomen? It seems to me like if five years of estrogen is a cancer risk, 20+ years of estrogen should be even more of one, but I don’t know if the science actually works that way.

Probably took him longer to fight with her over refusing than it would have to just take the order.

I think it just seemed good in the moment because it was ~artsy~. Definitely hasn’t aged well.

They really were cute together, but sometimes things just run their course. Also I feel like there’s this weird thing where a 20something couple isn’t ready for marriage or kids yet but isn’t happy dating/living together indefinitely, so they break up instead just as a form of momentum. They might have hit that wall.

It’s her third engagement ring. Maybe she used up the decent designs she likes already.

John was born and died a full year before his big sister, Diana.

I don’t entirely disagree with her on principle, but given we’re coming off a hundred years when almost every single movie character was played by a white person, maybe she could just ... cool it? Shut up and think of the “political correctness” as reparations. When every Asian role has been played by an Asian person…