The language here tends to be pretty specific (dad is a maritime lawyer) so I am pretty sure he wasn’t technically “rescued” this time. His last attempt required a plane and a helicopter as well as a commercial container ship that was presumably rerouted to help with the rescue, and he was several days farther…

The first paragraph states the potential consequences (up to 7 years, $40,000 fine). It’s pretty much at their discretion what happens next, since he certainly violated the order.

No, I’m pretty sure they weren’t “rescuing him” this time so much as “preventing him.” You’re not allowed to do wildly unsafe things out on the water; if you are, the Coast Guard has the ability to stop you. It’s a little confusing since some of the tweets refer to his 2014 rescue, and the phrase “voluntarily ended…

Aw, I think you should go for it! That seems like a great excuse to connect with some people from your old congregation. I live in New York, so I’m no help, but I’d totally come...I’ve always wanted to do a friend Seder and have only done family ones with people I’ve known for a million years. Nice, but a different…

Oh yeah we have tons of fun. We are all very political so we like to add in lots of modern readings from various progressive websites, and we do all the feminist-y Miriam stuff, and we often feature a dramatic reading of a passage from “Born to Kvetch” or something similar. We are basically very good at all the parts…

No that’s really interesting, actually! I am neither a television writer nor involved in law enforcement; unfortunately, my experience comes from having someone very close to me die suddenly with no obvious cause of death. The entire cycle of autopsy, tox screen, and then final assessment took several months, in the…

1. How can you have a seder if no one at the seder knows anything about seders?

Yes, totally normal. Another thing Law & Order lied to us about, as well “enhance. ENHANCE.” on crappy security camera footage.

Reloading the page worked for me!

It’s not that young women don’t like the taste of alcohol, although that’s true of some of them. It’s a perception that vodka is the least-caloric alcohol you can order. That’s not necessarily true, but every young woman I know believed that, including me, at one point.

As my cohort has begun to have babies, they’ve also begun to lose babies, and like everything else to do with childbirth, it’s a very individual experience. None of my friends are pro-lifers, but a few of them wanted to mourn their lost pregnancies in a significant and public way, and a few of them found their way to…

I believe that people should vote for the candidate with whom their beliefs most closely align, and who they would genuinely like to see in office, as opposed to trying to “send a message” that may or may not be interpreted the way they wish by a large, mostly-faceless, multi-tiered organization. If that’s confusing…

I hate to burst your bubble but...she is running? Unless this is your tactful way of wishing actual physical harm on another human being, in which case I think you should probably reexamine your priorities in life?

Yeah, I have to say, apart from some dumb Twitter action, I haven’t actually felt any kind of division of the kind that’s being reported anywhere in my own social circle. All my conversations about politics have been exactly like this one—someone likes Sanders, someone likes Hillary, but both of us agree that they’re…

Um, yeah, I have a lot of other reasons to vote for Hillary. I think she’s by far the most qualified candidate we’ve had in years in terms of foreign policy experience, which I feel is increasingly important in an increasingly global world. I agree with her on a full slate of domestic issues: guns, immigration,…

I thought about doing this, but then I realized, if we ALL do this, then we will be facing a Trump-Sanders election and I cannot fucking stand the idea of two crazy old white men yelling at each other for another goddamn election. And that made me realize that Hillary wasn’t just the foregone conclusion, she was the…

The real researcher is Brene Brown :)

Yeah, I had that same reaction to the “I’m lucky to have a job” line. Like...as a middle-aged woman in entertainment, sure. As a human being, not so much. I have no reason to think she meant it out of the specific context in which it was asked, but it felt a little icky to read.

Aw girl I get it. Complaining about friends is the hardest conversational dance to do. Whenever I do it, and someone inevitably is like “ew, what a bitch” I’m like “NO she is NOT she’s great HOW COULD YOU THINK THAT” and then I remember. It’s complicated.

The ONE TIME I had a wedding in my city, I actually had TWO weddings the same weekend—Friday night and Saturday night. I Ubered everywhere because I literally couldn’t walk by the end of the weekend. I put my feet on the floor Monday morning and almost fell over, and my doc determined I had mild nerve damage on the…