If my ‘90's era mother was an NPC, her only line would be, “Don’t let anybody take you!” She said this to me literally thousands of times over the course of my childhood and even into my young adulthood. It was an obsession. Anytime I went anywhere, even out into the yard in our (very safe) neighborhood. “Don’t let…

Speaking for myself, it’s winter here in Wisconsin in November most of the time. Last year we had our first significant snow in October and it was firmly below freezing every day and snowing at least weekly by Thanksgiving.

You bought a bunch of plants that are poisonous to cats. FYI.

The styling is pure Far Side comic, though.

Anyone looking for a Lucky replacement at a similar price point with nice quality should check out Kut from the Kloth. Despite the staggeringly stupid name, they’re nice jeans. I own a fair number of Luckys and like them, but my absolute favorite pair of jeans are Kuts (their Catherine boyfriend jean).

Black Lagoon: for when you want a military-style anime that has no idea how any of the equipment actually works.

Most of these are sad stories, but a few of these posters are really telling on themselves...

There is a slight but crucial difference between going to your local grocery store to buy food, a necessary activity during a global pandemic, and deciding to get on a cruise ship and go float on the ocean in a giant petri dish with a bunch of high risk older people for funsies.

The two Targets closest to me never have any mediums/larges left in women’s clothing. If I end up there I dutifully try either a small or an extra large to get an idea of what the garment will look like, then order online while literally standing in the dressing room. It’s ridiculous.

So... an incompetent yokel, yes, the administration’s political appointments are full of them, but why this particular incompetent yokel for this particular job? How did he get this job? Who was he connected to? Azar has no obvious connections to Texas that a casual Google is turning up...

Raw fresh ingredients or 100% safe ingredients: pick one. Any place that serves raw vegetables in large quantities will eventually have some sort of contamination issue because of how we do our farming. If you want to eat super safe fast food, you’ll have to get processed everything.

A very reasonable thing to want, given the circumstances.

Zero national or international experience and no getting around it.

Hahahaha... oh, wait. Are people actually serious about Stacy Abrams being a heartbeat away from the presidency as a 77-year-old’s VP? Governor of Georgia, sure, if they could have made that work. President of the United States? Her highest government experience is as a member of the Georgia state House, and that was…

...not that Joe was actually able to name all six of those items in real time. He said economy twice and forgot healthcare entirely. The look on Bernie’s face was really something.

I absolutely refuse to participate in any attempted revival of “shabby chic” or “country” anything. I lived through the pink and green eighties and nineties everything-is-distressed-and/or-floral decor once. I ain’t doing it again.

There seems to be an idea that older voters in general hold that the candidate who appears to be in the exact middle of all the candidates on both sides is by default the best candidate. I have had any number of older relatives and acquaintances happily identify Biden as that candidate to me. “He’s right in the…

My fire team members are all on Xbox One Xs and the load times are an eternity. There is a collective groan whenever one of us forgets something/needs something from the vault and we have to go back to the Tower. Menus are also laggy as hell.

I am so, so, SO GLAD 22-year-old me didn’t settle. He was great on paper! Good internships, good school, good job, handsome, articulate, sense of humor. But also possessive, said creepy shit about underage girls when it was only me who could hear, compared my personality and body negatively to said girls, was vaguely…

All I know about the current state of American politics is that my husband keeps coming up behind me and kissing me on the neck and murmuring “Joe Biden” and I can’t be held legally responsible for what happens to him the next time he does it.