My mother smoked cigarettes for the entire pregnancy and drank through the first trimester of all of my and my brother and sisters’ pregnancies in the 1960s, and we were all over 9lb at birth. We are all MIT and Harvard graduates. I’m sorry you are dealing with a bad situation, but shaming mothers, like my own, who…

That’s great! Which town? I’m surprised I didn’t get a text about it from the near-continuous “Fatality in Agawam” and “Dead body that may or not be a log in the Connecticut River” MassLive text stream. Today’s favorite was 8:48AM’s “Family of murder victim discovers his missing limbs after police overlook them in…

Clearly it was Barron:

And if this were a well-plotted Netflix show, instead of our painful reality, the plucky female Undersecretary of the Treasury would, over an eight episode arc, stroke Trump’s ego into convincing him that releasing his tax returns would prove to everyone that he was taking the Russians for a ride, not the other way…

For me, it’s like a gut punch every time I see Susan Estrich’s name attached to this, because she was a role model for me in the 80s.

I had dinner there years ago, and Julia Child walked in unannounced. The place went as wild as 4-star restaurant on Beacon Hill can go, and she was whisked off to a private dining room. Lovely memory.

Or they come back as gay penguins, and have full-throated terror when the grandchildren they taught to hate have them put to death.

The last time the US won a musket-based war was 1812. We must continue to fund our musket budget to the tune of $2billion. Otherwise we’ll all be speaking Canadian!

Well, WBZ was the home of the First Lady of New England, Shelby Scott:
“Of course no WBZ legacy piece would be complete without the legendary Shelby Scott. She was the first woman to anchor a newscast on WBZ. Later in her career she became known for her storm chasing. Each year when the snow starts falling, people…

I’m guessing you’re a white male by that comment. The rest of us know we’re going to be rounded up no matter what, so we might as well go out with a bang!

Well! Aren’t you now the smug motherfucker!

Starred for “trumped over”.

As a poll worker, it’s great to have extra hands, but it doesn’t make the line go faster. The districts are set by the state legislature, so you have to vote in your district. Each district has only one list of voters, so only one person can check the name off the list. In my district, having more Chinese and Spanish…

This explanation is most likely correct, but as a person who lives in low income housing in Boston, frankly, it sucks. Carson is going to be disaster, and I am organizing my neighbors to call Warren’s office to protest.
Which hurts me, because otherwise I am her biggest fangirl.

I’m so sorry! Apparently I’m one of the Deletors! My repeated star clicks reduced your stars. You are worthy! I hope someone else makes up for my idocy.

I know the Kittredges who started Yankee Candle. Mike was a good boss before he sold the company, but he was as unpleasant as this article in the Times makes him seem afterwards.  

Also, when the Republican leadership shutdown CSPAN coverage of the Democratic protest of the House refusing to bring gun a referendum to vote, Tammy Duckworth smuggled a cellphone in her prosthetic leg to broadcast the sit-in.

Sorry, I got Kinja'd. What I meant to add was that my sister and brother-in-law, in their Revolutionary War era suburb, have redesigned their house to have outward opening doors, so they can't be kicked in, and the addition they put on is so bunker-tight that they can't get an occupancy permit because the fire alarm…

Not really the same, but it reminded me of a situation with my sister. We are both very liberal, but I live in the inner city, near a methadone clinic, and she and her husband live in a lily white suburb. They were driving me home once, and a homeless man wandered out in traffic toward us, so I slammed the door…

As a Bostonian, I just want to say that I appreciate the giant tree Halifax sends every year for Christmas. It's part of a charming tradition of recognizing mutual aide, and I'm always happy when I see it on TV being trucked in and hoisted up on the Common.