We live in a 2/1 ~1000 sq ft home right now but we’re selling it and getting a bigger one (not that much bigger—an extra 500 sq ft would suit me just fine) because with two adults and one child, we can’t all have hobbies in such a small space. Nothing, at least, that requires you to keep equipment out for more than a…

I’m in Pittsburgh and before I switched jobs in 2014, I was making $30k. I’m married so our household income was double that, and before we had our kid we were able to take vacations every couple of years and we own our home and all that stuff. In many areas of our life we still lived like grad students (used…

Nah dude, it’s cool. Pittsburgh real estate is going bananas right now and it’s pissing me off so yes, by all means, everyone STAY AWAY FROM PITTSBURGH IT’S SO TERRIBLE DON’T EVER MOVE HERE

Stop flipping your pan over and get yourselves one of these:

It actually is the other way around for men. Men who have kids are more likely to get more money and more promotions because they are “providing for a family.” Women in the same position get paid less and get passed over more because they “aren’t fully dedicated to the job.”

All of my local pols are Democrats and perfectly fine, and all the exurban and rural Republicans that have as their single mission to fuck everything up for everyone state-wide would probably rather die than set foot in the den of iniquity and sin that is The Big Scary City. They might see a black person! Or two men…

Yeah, but consider that she left (resigned, was asked to leave, potato potahto) Science Based Medicine because she was alienating such a huge swath of that blog’s readers—people who are already skeptics and already on her side. She often uses research in just as dishonest a way as the people she’s fighting against and…

Those two kind of deserve each other, tbh.

She seems to just completely lack nuance or a sense of the very recent history of obstetrics (twilight sleep was the norm until well into the 70s—it was not that long ago that we were literally drugging women, often against their will, into compliance during birth). She throws basic respect for women’s autonomy out…

Fair warning, though, Amy Tuteur (aka the Skeptical OB) frequently puts me on the A Pox on Both Your Houses side (#teamnoone) because she can be so incredibly obnoxious about stuff that really is not at all worth getting that obnoxious about.

Right. People are like, “Well, I haven’t thought too deeply about these things except my own knee-jerk in-the-moment emotions, and I’m not a bad person. He gets me! He’s just like me! Let’s elect this guy to run the country!”

Yo, 20 years ago was 1996. It was not the 50s. I was 21 years old and having plenty of the sex.

My kid is the same age and has been taking gymnastics on and off since he was barely walking and he can... kind of walk on a balance beam and do a somersault?

A lot of what people are paying for when paying for a private school is not quality of teacher but the ability of the administration to boot out troublemakers. Public schools have to educate all the children that walk in their doors, private schools can pick and choose. Private school teachers are any higher quality…

You, like myself, run in a city, where there are copious public restrooms (I run on an urban college campus where there are even more than an average number). The occasional time I’ve run in more far-flung locales though, I have indeed had to stop at dodgy port-a-potties and such. Having to take a shit in the middle…

Once baby is born, believe me, you will have plenty of time to sit around watching TV. Newborns are hella boring.

Yep. (I work at a university but not in an academic capacity). The two people in my department of 6 who are out sick the most? The single dudes. I have not taken a sick day that was actually due to me being sick in at least a year. My kid gets sick and I share staying home with him with my husband but I know I need to…

In regular amounts of “I could go out in this but it’d suck and I’m warm and dry right now” snow, order delivery and tip very well.

IDK man, I’ve got 3 hens and they’re fine and everything but they are dumb as a box of other boxes and mainly only want to hang out with me if they think I have a pocket full of scratch.

I decided a couple months ago that the Carson campaign is really just a direct mail scam that somehow got taken way more seriously than usual. The Right is full of direct mail scams bilking low-information citizens of what little money they have by playing on irrational fears. The Carson campaign is just another…