You know, I’ve never been involved with an emotionally healthy porn-minded guy. It was always the guys with real problems one way or another. I mean I get a few years of teen obsession with the stuff, but then this growing-up thing seems to happen, and the guys recognize that yeah, it’s horribly exploitative and…

Nope. Nope nope nope.

Unfortunately, it appears to be necessary momsplaining. Caring for children, working with kids, and raising children from babies: not the same things. Sorry. The moms are bothering to explain things to you in hopes that the learning thing happens in your head. Let it grow.

Oh god, it’s you again. Look. Infants eat pretty much all the time. That’s how they do the growing thing. Eat, poop, sleep, wake up, look around, repeat. Sometimes they grow faster and the cycle goes faster. Sometimes all they fucking do is eat. The main job of the mom, in those days, is to keep the kid fed, dry, and…

Don’t worry about what people call you or whether some douchebag thinks you’re hysterical. Just stand up for your rights, and, once in a while, for someone else’s. And give some careful thought to what’s actually important in an argument. In this case we have:

1. Dippy VS clerk
2. Hungry baby

Baby wins. Sorry, dippy VS…

Um....

Look, I know that having really just yourself to pay attention to and take care of can make you a little me-centric, there. But think of it this way. You can go through all kinds of horrible things for ten minutes and still live. Nobody humane would put you through that, though. You can hungry for ten minutes…

I think the take of childless reporters here is a little all-or-nothing.

I don’t know any parents who expect their parents to do fulltime or even part-time regular childcare as a steady thing. It’s a tremendous amount of work, and it’s taxing.

What millennial and genX parents are seeing, though, is that their Boomer…

Please do not do these things to your house if you have children. No more children should be forced to grow up like this. I spent part of yesterday practically barking at a kinda-aggressive Design Within Reach salesdude who kept trying to sell me on a tweedy Aunt Sally blue, which isn’t very far away from that…

No, no they don’t. Because end of the day, they still want to grab you by the arms and make sure you stay put, missy, till that babby’s grown and borned.

Yeah, maybe she’s not such an historic first:

Trump has always been this way. He gave the graduation speech at my university the year I graduated, back in the 80s, and the whole thing was essentially terror of immigrants and gay zombies trying to give you HIV. And he’s always been beloved of people impressed by gold electroplating, abusive ranting, and…

This guy sound like a genuinely hideous person. This is the kind of guy I usually have thrown out when he’s hollering in a room because his voice is obvs the most important thing there.

Okay, so I’m not a fan of the manbun, but I think that future generations are going to wonder why the middle-aged TV ladies all had to have the muscly/ropy arms, and why they weren’t allowed to have normal middle-aged-lady arms, with or without sleeves.

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…