This comes free with age and experience. At this point I can diagnose the lives and miseries of at least 60% of the OKC guys on sight, and a glance at the profile gives you the rest.

As a single mom with no dough and nonstop work, I wrote myself an “exempt” ticket from all such reindeer games, including PTO and school expectations, very very early on. I don’t recall anyone trying to give me attitude about it, maybe because when I did show up I looked like that might be a bad idea. Because it was.…

No. Just oblivious women with money who blithely write prescriptions for the world.

If I’m buying your dinner, I should get to tell you what to wear and how to behave. Yes?

You’re joking, right?

Try this thing that I know is going to be difficult for you: drop the white-knuckle on logic and try imagining yourself in someone else’s position. Suppose you are black, or simply not white. Suppose you’ve been following, one after the other, the attacks by ex-military white men on men of color all over this country,…

Yeah, no.

Dude, you fix your own head. We’ve got a big enough fight without fixing men’s masculinity for them.

No, hate was the right word.

If you walk around as a walking rebuke, if your standing there breathing says that their selfpromotional lies are just that, lies, or if you’re not joking when you say you expect them to do their share, and are watching -- they hate.

Oh, shut up, Rachel. This isn’t about overturning the vote, and that was made clear from the beginning. Pay more attention. Read and understand what this is actually for, since you seem to have missed it the first several times.

This is very disappointing to read. This piece, not the news about the recount effort.

I get that Stein’s not your favorite. She’s not mine, never has been mine, and I wasted a lot of breath trying to get morons not to vote for her. But this is not about that. And if you had about six brain cells churning away up…

“Available”? You mean like a special deal at the supermarket? Or like some guy doesn’t own her already so she’s just swimming around out there loose?

Yeah, what you guys were doing was way better. @@

Yeah, it doesn’t work that way. Would be neat if it did. But it doesn’t.

If only it were true. Would’ve saved me one hell of a lot of trouble.

Happens all the time. All the time. It’s why I didn’t file, though I’m not sorry he did. But for many years I said goodbye to my daughter at visitation time not really certain I’d see her again.

Very, very common.

My ex lied like a madman the first year or so we were together, and the lies started unraveling after that. He’s got his first serious girlfriend since the divorce now, has moved into her place (just like he moved into mine) and is trying to hustle her towards family and marriage as fast as he can.…

No. Just all the no in the world to pancaked sunless youth in doing Matrixy-nihilistic voyeurism as though they’ve only just learned the word “frottage”. To Elvis. No.

Yes, it’s absolutely a necessary thing if she’s going to retain custody. Odds are though that he hasn’t been a SAHD and there’s been a nanny the whole time.

He’s going to be very surprised, and also not care, when it turns out that he has to have supervised visitation with his son. And that’s going to be the end of his relationship with his son until he decides he needs a son-prop.

Tbh, Huma also sounds awful, and I figure the kid doesn’t have a chance.

You sound like you’re twelve.

You sound like a seriously condescending prick.