Okay, no, sorry, that is super gross and completely skeevy! I mean, I can kind of get behind a child who died as an infant having their name reused, but someone you want to talk about having gone to school? NOPE OUT.

Brrrr, yes, I am creeped out on your behalf as well!

I am officially creeped out on his behalf. I had no idea the trend had lasted (and going by the law of averages, I’m assuming your boyfriend is not 95, which is how old my grandfather was when he died). It seems ... less like a memorial and more like “eh, we figured out a good one already, let’s just use that.” But…

That part of my family lived in a city at that time - I would think it might depend on how likely it was there was anyone with a camera around? I know this is the only picture my mother found, and she searched extensively through her family photos and her aunt’s and father’s as well, so it struck us as an uncommon…

Yay! Let’s keep on being creepy about dead people! Make America Great About Dead People Again! (I do not even like open-coffin funerals.)

Actually, I should add, this might not prove my point at all, because that baby certainly was in an odd position for someone who’s dead, though it did turn up on a post-mortem photos search. But I know the one I was thinking of when I wrote the first comment for some reason the kid is actually dead, and it’s, uh,…

Nope! I don’t remember what the reasoning was for having the mother hold the child in some cases (in others, it’s a straight-up coffin photo, and some of them should noooooooot have been taken, or the baby is sitting in a chair, or whatever) but I found this one. It’s more obvious than the one I was specifically…

Yeah, I’ll agree this is maudlin. The effects are twee, and if the editor used them to compensate for the fact it’s a stone bitch to take an image from one place and shop it into another pic, with completely different lighting, etc, they’re still fucking twee. The Victorian pics are just creepy, which is apparently…

It’s probably wrong that I was kind of bummed out that when my mother FINALLY found a photo of her uncle who died when he was six months old, in like 1910, he’s just laying in a crib with a boatload of flowers around it, NGL. But they made up for it by naming their next son, who became my grandfather which is, from my…

Important question: is it weird because it’s Friday and it’s been a long week for everyone, or is it weird because it’s April Fools and I’m just over everything already, or some combination of the above?

Could be worse - it could be like how they did in Victorian times, where they ACTUALLY took pictures of the dead person. It’s super-creepy when you realize the chair the dead kid is sitting on is ITS MOTHER UNDER A SHEET.

I would buy that light switch if I could install it somewhere on my boyfriend, like maybe his shoulder, so he gets a tiny punch when he leaves the room with the lights on, which is ALWAYS. He claims that at his house (he lives with a group of friends) he never turns the light on so he doesn’t think about turning it…

I need to get an out-of-the-house job just so I can put that up in my workspace and see who gets it. #TeamPam

I’m assuming she does; I just wanted to be correct because it sounds like not too many people have been. One of the first hits for her letter is actually Snopes.

My mistake - apparently she was something in communications for the Make America Great Again superPAC. Her letter is worth a read regardless - http://www.xojane.com/issues/stephan…

Actually ... *sunglasses* ... butt puns. YEEEEEEEAAAAAAH!

I do not feel better for knowing this.

I actually don’t, mostly because I am not comfortable saying that Cruz is defeatable if Hillary is the nominee, and I genuinely believe Cruz will destroy America. I suspect we’ll be in an unofficial four-way race at that point, with a LOT of Trump and Sanders write-ins, and I’m all in favour of exercising one’s right…

Well, at least in terms of favorability rating, he’s been losing ground - I want to say 6 points but it might only be 5 - since January-ish. He’s currently 32 points under water, though that may have been March 18 polling which would be dated and not reflect today. So if he’s opening his mouth and losing favorability,…

Good point. I do think that’s how it will be seen (and if Cruz or Kasich are smart they’ll get on it as that), but calling it flip-flopping does assume a certain level of belief in ANYTHING, which Trump doesn’t have. Did you read that statement from his communications director who resigned this week? I particularly…