Apparently not in Ireland.

Laddo!

No real examples to share because I delete all texts immediately after reading, but a family crisis in recent months necessitated quite a few group texts to share information family wide, and a surprising number of people in my family accidentally texted back to ALL when they thought they were just texting to me.…

My wife and I (inexplicably) use a lot of military jargon from Generation Kill in our texts, e.g., RTB = Return to base; Godmother Actual = her; Hitman = me; Hitman Victor = my car; Godmother Victor = her car; Oscar Mike = on the move; ass = heavy traffic on the Interstate; sit-rep = What’s up.”

I started out as an English major in 1969 intending to go the full route through a PhD, with the hope of teaching at the college level. Three years into my undergraduate degree, I concluded that even among the professors whose classes I really enjoyed, most of them were there for the nookie (boys a/o girls). That…

History, like Truth and Fact, is a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut--it all depends on whose hand controls the hands at the keyboard, cf, public school textbooks in Texas.

I love the oddly specific stories that include, for example, the guy’s need to get back home to X-town in time for his shift at UPS, and all he needs to have enough for a bus ticket is $13.78.

It happens.

IKR? I get that a lawyer is bound to do all he or she can for his or her client, but this crosses an ethical line we can all see. I do not understand how the equivalent of the bar in Ireland can justify not sanctioning her for this defense.

The rapist’s lawyer is named Elizabeth O’Connell. Dox the witch.

Same here. I signed up when the service was first introduced, and all three credit scores were still frozen. I don’t remember what questions I had to answer, but I don’t remember them being especially difficult for someone else to find the answers to.

I wish you were right, but I’ve looked at the combined national polling for Trump’s approval/disapproval rating on 538.com almost every day since he took office, and his approval rating has been and remains a solid 40%. Disapproval rises and falls, but that 40% is locked in.  

Children do stupid things because they don’t fully understand cause and effect.

Will forward to like minds.

Long shot, but are there any halfway interesting college towns nearby? Could you negotiate a deal with your husband to say, okay you get the perfect job, but as a concession, we live in [reasonably cool town] and you commute 30 minutes.

Life is not a contest to see how much you can do without.

Life is not a contest to see how much you can do without.

I’ve never had a celebrity sighting, but once when I was on a really bad blind date in Philadelphia, the cashier at a seafood restaurant on Spruce Street gasped when he looked up from the cash register drawer and saw me standing there waiting to pay. He laid his open hand just below his throat and said, “Oh my God, I…

I think it’s fair to call him a collaborator at this point.

Getting a CCW permit is so easy (I know; I took the course), I’m sure most people who have never touched a pistol could pass the live-fire qualification. The prospect of four or five of them opening fire in a closed space is terrifying