Oh yeah, it’s obviously not going to happen. At this point I’m not even sure why I bother pointing out additional flaws in his reasoning. It’s all holes and no sweater!

This just reminds me so much of the Icesave dispute for some reason - it’s such an interesting discussion and examination of what one sovereign country can and cannot force another to do financially, especially when they are fairly close allies. (Iceland, the UK and the Netherlands were/are all members of the EEA and…

I mean, NAFTA should technically stop that... but it’s not like the States has ever abided by NAFTA rulings anyway.

My mom and dad had my little sister’s name all picked out, then when the doctor asked what name he should put on the birth certificate my mom just up and said something different. I have no idea what my dad thought about the whole thing, but I think it was a pretty good call. She is in no way a Hannah, but Meg (well,…

I’m a third generation Finn on my mom’s side with a Scottish father, so I got an English name, but I’ve always felt that my grandparents did a good job on my mom’s/her siblings’ names. They’re Finnish but easy for English people to pronounce. (My grandparents’ names are lovely, but my mom might have had a hard time…

I’m sorry to hear about the difficult story behind it... but I think your choices around your name were/are really cool. Kudos.

As I said up thread, I think there’s a real possibility that the kids could know that information and still get on the wrong plane. It’s not like someone driving past your street, where you would see something going wrong. Pretty much all airport gates look exactly the same unless you are paying attention to what the…

Exactly. And my guess is that they were probably told to go with the nice people from the airline who would take them to their seat.

Didn’t Scott Walker already suggest that?

At one of my first jobs I remember overhearing one of the tenured professors (a man in his late 60s) remark that since they made it illegal to ask people if they were planning to have a baby in interviews they should just avoid any women younger than middle age. This was in 2010!

Yep! It’s not pretty, but every time I see something like this I get so envious - I had to work night shift at the local hospital 36 hours a week during uni, I had no money and less time. (Not that I would have spent it doing this, but I can’t help but be jealous that they had the option!)

...and then her children had to edit the HELL out of her diaries so that the public wouldn’t see the sexy bits.

Really? They’ve been confusing athletes and insulting a 14 year-old. Not exactly stellar.

It’s all very Henry II, isn’t it?

It still really isn’t consistent at all. If people like Rubio actually genuinely believed that all abortion was murder and one of the most pressing issues facing society (which I suspect they don’t), then they would actually be working hard to stop or reduce abortions. The thing about that is we know exactly how to…

I had a really interesting discussion a while ago about being pro-choice with a dear friend who grew up in a very fundamentalist household and is still kind of wrestling with all of that.

I don’t know. I’m bi and I’ve found that men and women come with different sets of challenges but also that those challenges are way more down to the individual in a relationship.

Exactly! It is on my (fairly short) list of comedic literature that is 100+ years old that remains genuinely funny to a modern day audience of non lit-majors.

I made my book club read that one. Then I made them read Three Men in a Boat. No regrets.

I love that story. Connie Willis is great and completely opened up sci-fi for me with her whole brand of not-spending-6-pages-describing-how-fake-laser-pistols-work.