I love my house but after 8 years of owning I still sometimes end up sobbing “I want to call my landlord.” Most recently when a pipe burst in the basement, which resulted in needing to get *all* the plumbing replaced, and now we can’t get the drywall and flooring repaired because we’re in some sort of incomprehensible…

My mom’s first job when she was in high school was sewing the labels of different designer brands into the dresses as they came out of the factories. Same dress, different labels, all pretty cheaply made with underpaid labor and exorbitantly expensive on the rack.

My family really has only 3 types of acceptable gifts: 1) books; 2) experiences (lessons, tickets for a show, a nice meal at an interesting restaurant); 3) donations to good causes.

I’m not a lawyer, but I am a statistician, and this shit drives me nuts. Nobody wants to know anything about stats (3 types of liars and all that) until they’re 100% convinced that their bizarre reasoning is “proven” by stats (something they also don’t understand).

So, she did nothing in this hairstyle except leave her own home and drive in her own car- not exactly the things one does when one’s trying to start a trend or appropriate culture. Why is it your job to police what people do when they’re NOT really in public, and pretend that they’re dancing in your front yard?

Sometimes at work I like to say grossly misandrist things, like “Given the quality of this report, it’s clear that men aren’t really suited to this sort of work, but at least he makes great coffee.” Then, if anyone starts to look offended, I get all defensive and say “WHAT? I have a brother! I have a dad! Some of my…

Rom-Coms always make me feel slightly unfulfilled. It’s not the romance (always too saccharine for me) but the charming/quirky coworkers. My coworkers are extremely smart, hardworking, and unfailingly kind. They all have very intelligent, interesting spouses. They are all trying their best to be good people in a crazy…

Well, this site has mocked her when she didn’t speak out for liberal causes, and they’ve mocked her when she has, and they’ve mocked her when she’s dating someone, and they’ve mocked her when she’s not dating someone, and they’ve mocked her every time she’s been herself in the public eye.  None of it has been…

You know what’s good feminism? Not shitting on women for using their platform for good.

As a bonafide doctor of invertebrate zoology, I can confidently say that yes, birds, lizards, and dinosaurs are basically the same.  Along with people, dogs, frogs, and fish.  If you’ve seen one bone, you’ve seen them all.

I think gender might be a part of it, but I think the largest benefit is just artificially removing yourself from the interaction.

REALLY, WHY HAVEN’T WOMEN SOLVED MISOGYNY YET, AMIRITE?

Portland has a very strange political system, a holdover from our days as a tiny city. It’s the last major city to have a Commission system and it’s not good.

Agree, agree, and agree.  Also, I think Ted’s going to have to do more than get tear-gassed once if he’s hoping to win in November.

I think I win this one- we are supposed to be living in New Zealand right now, but because of Covid we’re not.  If we had been 2 months ahead on our visa applications, we could be living the “Our country has a reasonable government” dream.

One summer I was working at a really isolated field station, and one of my colleagues had some box set of Billy Blanks DVDs, and we did those videos every frickin’ day.  By the end of the season we’d yell all his lines along with him.  I had completely forgotten about that, I’m going to look these up!

1) Yes she is definitely a robot with a poor “display emotion” algorithm

The first day I worked from home (was that March? IDK, time has no meaning) I realized a) I’m going to be working from home for a loooong time and b) my lovely little desk that my grandfather built for my grandmother for a wedding present is not very ergonomic- fine for sitting down for 20 minutes of homework or…

My dad drives a bookmobile, and one year for Christmas I made him a calendar for the bookmobile using WPA book posters. There’s one for every month! They’re in the public domain and freely available online! I highly recommend doing this for the hard-to-shop-for-but-interesting person in your life.

This is my experience too. Nobody thinks I’m particularly involved because I hate marches (I’ll show up sometimes, but mostly I skip it) and I have a hard no on chanting. But my city and county commissioners know me at least by sight,if not by name, because I’ve spoken at so many meetings on so many different issues.