Yes yes and yes. It’s not really that big secret. The evil is not fat but it’s also not all carbs. You can eat both fat and carbs and be satiated and lose weight. It’s easy to say cut out carbs because then you also cut out the bulk of the calories that are from sugar and very easy to over consume grains. Eating a…

There’s a shadow side to this too. Some one else commented about being “not that kind of girl” and that immediately had my attention. I’m not sure that the “I’m so body positive that any talk of diet or diet products is oppressive or dangerous” schtick is putting these things as opposing forces without context of the…

So true. My hubby would sit and pat the baby for ungodly amounts of time. He would then expect I could and would replicate that... sorry, no. This is how we ended up with doing some sleep training. I have 6 kids. We do not have the kind of time to spend an hour or more in a room patting a baby on the back every night…

And to add insult to injury... the first huge sleep regression happens at 4 months, right after mom’s are typically having to go back to work if they were lucky enough to have the lovely unpaid FMLA.

I feel like this is too only I already had kids and they all have my partner’s name despite the fact we aren’t legally married and I do not now or in the future plan on legally having his. We didn’t even contemplate whose name the kids would have. It’s such a complicated mess of emotions for me. I feel like by giving…

How you know you aren’t a runner or biker or probably some other sports that I’m less familiar with. I don’t generally have the thigh rub problem too often anymore but I do have it on my upper inner arm where my arm rubs against the band of my running tops and on my butt crack. I totally use my stick of BodyGlide for…

Except what is happening is the other way around. The states with small populations are running the show and those with both the economies and population that make up most of this Union are getting steamrolled.

I am out in Beaverton.

I can’t believe they haven’t started hammering on your house... we have concrete siding and they still do it.

Wow, how lovely to jump on the patriarchy train and flatten everyone who has been working for decades to stop the undermining and devaluing of the emotional work that wmoen do that holds our society together. Civilization, society, community, families, friendships.... they cannot and will not exist without meaningful,…

So let’s just go for a simple home invasion scenario. Safe gun storage. Gun locked, unloaded. Separately ammo locked. To defend oneself in this situation... the victim of the home invasion needs to 1. unlock and retrieve the gun, 2. unlock and retrieve the ammo, 3. load the gun, before 4. being able to use the gun to…

Am I the only one that is shocked that this parent is being charged? Child access prevention laws are almost never enforced. Charges are almost never brought against parents where the child accidentally shoots someone with an unsecured firearm. Oh yeah, this guy is a POC. Of course he is being charged. Prosecutors…

The funny thing is, like my husband says, anyone can be taught to code. The actual skills places like Google and other tech (I’m not speaking to engineering or some other disciplines) find make the BEST workers are those you would get from a well rounded liberal arts education. Tough luck actually landing an interview…

Not really, poorer people spend all of their income. They have to in order to survive. They have no choice. Middle income spend almost all of their income again survival... plus consumer discretionary income that drives the economy. High income hoard their income. You can only buy so many yachts and private planes…

Because FairTax (I’m assuming you mean tax based on a % of expenditures) is non-progressive and is actually one of the most unfair tax systems ever devised. Also it hs not even been successfully academically piloted... anywhere... ever.

While maybe true on surface... but there is no doubt that the standard of living of poverty rate income today is substantially better than pre-minimum wage. You can say no-ones realtive income was improved but not that the vast majority of people in poverty have better living conditions than 100 years ago.

Patenetly false. There is loads of research out there that higher minimum wages, TANF (which is similar to UBI for families with children), and other income inflating measures is not a net-net. Sure there is wage compression where instead of squalor vs. marginal existence there are more people in the marginal…

Actually she didn’t miss it. There are several paragraphs talking about how to pay for it based on various scenarios. So... no

From a white supremacist (newsflash—racist) society. Which means implicit bias is a part of racism. Ta-dah... You can’t have racially coded implicit bias without racism.

Where the fuck do you think implicit bias comes from? It’s just magically imprinted from by mischievous fairies? Geezus. If implicit bias was random then I’d buy your “it’s not racism” argument. But it’s not it’s racially coded. It’s almost universally tipped toward negative for Black people by White people (and…