I fortunately live in the UK, where gums aren't quite such an everyday worry. But I think the root of my concern is very close to that: the fact that you never know when an asshole will turn out to be a psycho. It was a risk I was willing to take for myself for years, but not so much for my kid.

I am the same way. It has not made it *easier* and I have always been outspoken but I was outspoken against non-family members and didn’t feel I could call out the men who hurt me. Now that I have children, I am very, very protective to the point that I will blow up a relationship with someone who is “unsafe” and not…

“Unfortunately, recent events have made it clear that even our apparent allies in the fight to advance women can turn out to be abusers,”

Apparently some hack released a story last night about how the Sussex’s were not invited to Obama’s birthday party.

Like parents of a toddler and an infant are going to leave their kids alone, travel for what is probably eight hours during a pandemic to attend a party. 

Well, seems as no political allies have really made a showing of support. I wonder if his aide who resigned yesterday would cooperate with authorities. 

At the very least, the royals will concoct some story about Meghan to distract the British press.

Can’t wait for Piers Morgan to tell us all how Meghan Markle is to blame for all of this.

It is good that Giuffre continues to tell her story and seek justice. It seems unlikely that anything will come of this since neither the US government or the British government seems interested in doing anything when it comes to Andrew. 

The US court system fails women on a daily basis, and the perpetrators aren’t centuries-old Royalty/ heads of state of a wealthy nation.

Occasionally I find myself passing through Waldo FL. Waldo has a Wendy’s, a gas station and a couple other small businesses. It is not on any mass transit routes. What does someone who lives in Waldo do? Pretty sure that there are more people who want to work at Wendy’s than jobs open. So if we have a free market with…

It’s not a labor shortage. Please don’t buy into their framing.

The picture looks pretty bleak for Cuomo. Politically he’s basically a Republican, spent years blocking Democratic legislation, and helped Republicans take control of the senate so his own party legislators hate him.

Conservatives ruined “Free Markets” for everyone when they insist on also wanting Government bailouts and subsidies for Corporations, and Government suppression of Workers’ Rights. Just like they ruined the word “Libertarian”.

I feel like another real improvement would be to stop companies in a number of industries from allowing customers to bully and mistreat workers. Companies are so thirsty for every last cent that they’ll empower any and all customers to terrorize workers and make their lives miserable. Most customers don’t take the…

I could see Jennifer playing a Melania Trump type character but if anyone is going to get that role, say in a Adam McKay or Danny Strong vehicle about the Trump years, it should go to Laura Benanti. She nailed it.

I liked the show when it first aired, but it does not age well.

I’ll watch the reruns on E! late at night if I wake up, I cannot believe how awful those women were. Samantha was the only one who wasn’t a complete fucking asshole.

This highlights the other problem with retail jobs: the work environment sucks. Covid is exposing a lot of the downsides to our service economy. Too bad we don’t have the national coordination to leverage this opportunity.

Conservatives only like the free market when it benefits the owners, not the workers.

Isn’t the free market setting the higher wage, and not an artificial government price floor, like…a good thing? Invisible hand at work, everybody.