(ESPECIALLY as a way to get away from my insane three-year-old)

Meanwhile, the time I spend cooking dinner is time I get to be away from my family for a little while without feeling guilty because I’m doing something productive.

After reading the headline I assumed it was a sex club for the squirrels. I can’t decide if the actual story is more or less bizarre.

This sounds a lot like my husband’s aunt. It’s so strange to me because his family is very liberal, I would be surprised if her being gay was an issue for them. It drives me nuts to hear them talk about her “friend” but it’s not really my place to say anything.

Yes, it made it pretty clear that the stamina stuff is just a dog whistle code for “woman”

Ooh, that is good.

True, true. If I were in her position I would have been screaming incoherently during basically the entire debate.

I feel like she must have prepared for it, because it was too perfect. As soon as the question was asked my cerebral cortex basically shut down as I tried to process the concept of admiring Trump for anything.

That moment was so great, he looked like a paranoid, combative child. And even better, he then gave her a very sincere-sounding compliment that was straight out of Barack Obama’s talking points as he has campaigned for Hillary.

I don’t know— are song lyrics not poetry? I heard on the radio that the Swedish Academy referenced Homer and Sappho, i.e., a tradition in which poetry was sung. I don’t really have an opinion on whether his words hold up on the page, but it seems reasonable that someone who intended his words to be sung could still be…

This is so gross. I can’t stop thinking about what it would feel like to see this clip and recognize yourself as a child as the target of this sleaze. Ugh.

Ugh, gross. That makes me feel bad for Ivanka. Yuck, I guess she chose someone like her father.

Yeah, but didn’t she marry a rich guy? It seems like she could break from him and still be fine financially. The grooming part....ugh, and yes, you are right. I feel 30% bad for her and 70% annoyed she has been working hard to get into the position to royally fuck up our country.

I heard him on NPR today and he said the Aleppo thing was a “pop quiz” and a “gotcha moment.” I realize he has to defend his running mate, but the both of them are so goddamn inept. The guy who wants to lead one of the biggest political powers on earth had better know what Aleppo is. And that is not how you defend him…

I wasn’t sure if they were a troll, or if they were some kind of rabid natural-birth proponent (which I don’t have anything against— just the rabid part). What a bizarre thing to troll about.

I doubt doctors are saying “This isn’t medically necessary, but let’s do it anyway!” They are likely saying some variation of “I’m concerned for x, y, z reasons, I think a c-section is good idea to be sure your baby is safe.” It makes a lot of sense that a patient with little or no experience with childbirth is going…

Yes, some people I respect highly raved about these books, so I borrowed the first one from the library. I totally could not get into it, and then it languished beside my bed until it was overdue and I had to admit I wasn’t going to read it. :(

Effort, but not thought, which a key distinction. Some students don’t seem to realize that not matter how long the paper is, if you haven’t said much of anything you’re not going to earn a good grade anyway.

I once went out with a guy who was shorter than me and he liked when I wore heels, because I liked them. He was just a teensy bit sexist and racist so we stopped dating for very good reasons, but the height thing wasn’t an issue at all. I really don’t see what the issue is with the woman being taller, it seems like a…

I don’t know why I am surprised, but I cannot believe he keeps talking about this! Isn’t this the guy who needs to appeal to women voters right now? Even more than the vile things he has said, his inability to let it go is flabbergasting.