Dunno what zip code your universe resides in, but where I live that’s true only if by “women” you mean “teenaged girls”. Everyone else is fucking busy, and once kids are in the picture the notion of schlepping off to the mall with the family, or to shop for the family (again), is viewed as a sort of penance or points…

And that is exactly why I’ll be meeting with our superintendant and the district equity coordinator — a real live black man — in a couple of weeks. The level of racism and homophobia amongst teachers is a serious problem. If it can’t be cured it can damn well be squeezed into a corner and students given license and…

Wow.

Wow. I think less of Paul now. I mean I get that he was fundraising, but you send a “personal” letter that’s nothing but ask? Yuck. Every now and then someone who fell off the face of the earth three years ago will email me with a chipper “money please” or “look, I wrote a book!” or whatnot, and that’s when I block…

Yes. Please. Please please please.

Thing is, he used to be a perfectly ordinary heartless pennypinching bastard out there guarding the public nickel with his damned life. Now he’s pat of the political apocalypse machine and has uncommonly stupid staffers. One of them actually told me that the issue isn’t that there are…

Is it me, or is she the next Iris? Do I have to wait till I’m an old lady to start dressing like that? I’m not sure I could pull that off just yet. Maybe I should give it a try.

Wait, what about them is supposed to be attractive? Because they’re supposed to be attractive, right? And yet to me they just look like vacuous asshats. I can just see them 20 years down the road, a little puffy and resentful and voting against the local school bond because wtf, they don’t have any kids in the…

Hell no.

Those faces! This is my reason to get up today. That and my daughter woke up sobbing and screaming and stomping because she’s actually too tired to go to camp and figured that instead of saying she just needs a day, she’d try to light my head on fire by glaring at it and slamming doors. But she’s asleep now and this…

The symbol, I understand what it’s trying to do, but it looks like a dress-wearer in a stiff breeze.

Right.

Yeah, I don’t think you get to have a “news site” full of celeb trash and then do this too, Lauren. I actually don’t like it that you’ve dragged him into this.

Oh, my god, they both sound hideous even by Vows standards. I was 4000% unsurprised when This American Life showed up in the narrative.

Lolacat, you are a beautiful person. But I am afraid you would not have been able to help this lady and her kids. Because if the likes of this lady began bringing her children to you, at least some of your neighbors would be freaking out. And you would begin to resent how the mom was treating you, too.

I would bet money that:

Meh. I honestly had no idea who she was, and if a gate agent told me I was lucky for flying first class, I’d be all “OMG I KNOW, RIGHT?” (Unless it’s one of those crap “first class” sections that’s pretty much the same as coach.) First class is the shit. I love how the flight attendants try to get you drunk. I don’t…

Shut up and stop focusing on punishment, you sicko. I mean obviously that’s the important thing here, right? Your desire to punish and see people punished?

The fact, and you know it damn well, is that if we had sensible gun laws this woman wouldn’t have a gun. Someone would’ve known that she had this gun and shouldn’t have had it, would’ve reported her, and the gun would’ve been removed from the house.

The reporters who came around after those deaths helped to publicize terrible injustices. Helped to start a movement.

Random people who show up to make money off the death? Which is what, in the end, the news crew was there for? Yeah, I’d say you’ve got every right to be a complete asshole to them.