At my former workplace (which was about 60% women between the ages of 25 and 55), it was almost a given that a woman would come back to work within 12 weeks after having a first child, but leave for at least 2 or 3 years after her second. These were professional women making reasonable professional incomes ($40-70K),…

Ah! Thank you, I was having a serious case of deja vu. I was thinking that I could have sworn something almost exactly like this (including the police chief saying “hey, at least we didn’t rape her”) had happened in Austin a couple of years ago. I’m glad that I’m not going completely insane.

I’m a couple of years younger than you, but I had a very similar experience. There are actually some songs on the Blue Album (and even on the Green Album) that still enjoy, but the bloom is off the rose on most of their stuff for me. As a socially awkward adolescent and young adult, I related to much of their stuff…

That is fantastic.

No, no. Abortion cookies for some, miniature American flags for others. =)

I remember an interview with Bill from 2008 where he was asked what he would want to be called if Hillary won, and he responded that he’d like to be called “First Laddie”. I think “First Genetleman” works better.

I wonder if they’ve gotten wise to this recently. I’ve gotten a bunch in the last 6 months or so that say “20% Off if you use it by XYZ date, max 10$ off if you use it after that” or something to that effect. I haven’t actually tried to use one (I don’t shop there a whole lot unless I’ve just moved).

Eeew!

Your mom sounds a lot like my mom, except that she waited until my brother and I were 10 or so to go back and get her PhD in chemistry (my dad wasn’t nearly as willing as yours to take on childcare duties, so we had to old enough to be pretty independent before she could go back). She’s always been very vocal about…

Frequently the local chapter of the Leauge of Women Voters will put out a voting guide with all of the candidates and their positions. If you live in a place with an alt-weekly newspaper, they also frequently do a similar voter guide.

I’m sure I would be the same way if I had any outdoor growing space (two cats means indoor potted plants are not an option).

I have no idea what you mean by a yarn problem. I definitely haven’t repeatedly cajoled one of my non-knitter friends into being my LYS chaperone (it helps that it’s also a coffee shop) because I can’t be trusted not to spend my entire paycheck if I go in alone.

That sounds about right. We all know there’s no problems with sexual assualt and coersion of female prisoners either, right?

My dad’s family is the opposite. The men all live to 80 or 90, but the women all die before 50 (my dad’s younger sister is the first woman in 3 generations to live past 50). I sincerely hope I take after my mom’s side WRT longevity.

The wording of the article is also really misleading. The mortality rate for middle aged black people is still 40% higher than for whites (581 per 100K vs 415 per 100K), but the death rate is falling for black people, and rising for white people. I think that this fits in with your hypothesis that poorly educated…

I can’t find the citation right now, but I remember seeing an article recently that was talking about how health care workers are far more attuned to drug seeking behavior in POC, to the point that they are frequently under treated for pain. Whereas, they’re far less likely to see it in white patients, and therefore…

I feel you there. I live across town from where I grew up, and work on the campus where both my parents worked. I occasionally get the “but you were so promising when you were young. How did you wind up a glorified lab tech?” News flash, most people are promising when they’re young. The absence of adult…

Wow, fuck those people. One of my aquaintances is a compliance officer for human subjects research. From what I hear from her, I imagine compliance work of any kind can be both fascinating and frustrating beyond belief (some of the rules/complaints by regulators she has to deal with are utterly mind-boggling). Anyone…

Board game cheating?! I’m sure you don’t need input from random internet strangers, but you were totally right to DTMFA.

This! All the stars for you. (mostly, I’m just replying to say that I love your username).