So step up training at the high school level. Give people scholarships or for undertaking certain types of majors. Yes, hire people from overseas. Incentivize what you want, don't disparage something else because you don't see it's value. I would make a TERRIBLE engineer, as would most of the liberal arts people I…

Agreed! And the worst part is that they can't do anything to stop you! The fear, the fear!

There's also a game of telephone tag that happens when people talk about having children. Example: when my sister was preggo, I had a conversation with her mother-in-law about how I wouldn't be holding the baby until she was six months old, minimum, because i find babies terrifying, because they seem so darn…

EXACTLY!

Rainn: no way is there WiFi at Hogwarts. Their photographs move and they can ever talk to each other through the fireplace or just freakin' Apparate! What else do you need the Internet for?

There are a few problems with your argument. First, it does not take into account differences in upbringing and socioeconomic status. Just because you knew what you were getting into re: money and college doesn't mean someone else does, especially someone without any family help or who may be the first in her family…

I'm not nearly as disturbed Ke$ha's street peeing as I am by her language butchery.

Really? I met him when he was touring for the Marriage Plot and he was so sweet to me! We talked about how I first read The Virgin Suicides when I was 12 and it totally shaped my teenage years, and he talked about how his daughter was that age now, and he wasn't sure if he should let her read it. It wasn't overly…

Ha! Maybe. I was playing Peter Pan with a kidlet, which apparently involves lots of running around and swordfighting, and the dog got a little too... excited. I can honestly say this was a new experience for me!

I'm babysitting tonight for the first time in over a decade. If I wasn't set in my child-free ways before, the crying infant, stubborn preschooler, and humping dog definitely would have done it. Yes, I was humped by a dog tonight. Thank goodness for Jezebel on my phone!

Obligatory Wisconsinite defense post:

Yes! I'm also a fan of short bike shorts underneath. That way I can wear whatever kind of skirt I want, and all they see is neon spandex.

Oh my goodness! Sasha looks so grown up! When did that happen?

Er... nevermind.

I still can't reconcile the Zac Efron of today with the kid from High School Musical. Maybe if I look at those pictures again. Yes. Just a few more times should do it. Uh-huh.

Likes assholes? Not racist but? Uh-oh. Those are bullet dodged-type warning signs. She sounds (from what very little I know) like someone who seriously has to consider herself, and others, and how the two work together, or don't. Like, why does she date assholes? Why does she harbor these attitudes? That's…

Yes! How dare they not recognize our awesomeness? I just got off the phone with a friend of mine, who said, "umm... so5? From what you've told me about this guy, he is NOT good for you." Which I acknowledge, and, intellectually makes sense, but the rom coms of my youth did not prepare me for this possibility! …

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I just got back from my first night out in... forever. Went out with some friends from my lit class, including one guy who I had a sort-of-but-not-really thing with who is now dating someone else. I think. But I don't know. And it's obvious he does not like me, but I still like him, and I can't stop liking him,…

His supporter is wearing a Cubs hoodie? In Wisconsin?!? This explains so much.