Hi, dears.

Also what total dick throws his wife under the bus in front of the ENTIRE COUNTRY?! Bitch, even if that was her table, it came out of YOUR budget that YOU control because it is tied to YOUR government position. You own that.

Ok then, so given that the shooter

At my wife’s old job gave you a 15 minute break every 4 hours and that had to be your break for everything, bathroom, smoke, lady issues, phone calls.   No, this wasn’t some retail or minimum wage factory job, this was an a fucking corporate job and they were doing this to people with a minimum of BA and many with…

So, I am somewhat acclimated to daily feeling adrift somewhere thru the looking glass, but the first tweet in this article has me bemused-almost perplexed. It starts with quotation marks which never close ( OCD=Triggered ), but I can sorta ignore that. The fourth sentence, however, is odd even by his standards. “I…

Really admire Sarah Silverman for this.

Israelis live under Israeli civil law.

‘Kellyanne for communications director?’

I didn’t realise Hollaback Girl had a tune.

If you feel so strongly for farmers then stop subsidizing big Agra, you twat.

Not to mention that due to subsidies for corn many farmers just keep growing corn and storing it because they get paid to grow it. It’s not even edible corn. That’s why corn syrup is in everything because corn is insanely subsidized so farmers don’t have much of a choice in what they grow.

Yeah except most parents of new parents are likely still working (mine sure are), and I know for me at least I don’t have any friends that could watch my theoretical kids during the day because they, too, would be at work. My grandparents are all dead except for one, and he’s in no shape to do anything. A good portion…

Stuffing your tiny dog into an over head bin doesnt appear wrong? If the flight attendant had pulled a gun out a shot the dog would language issues still be an excuse? Wrong actions look wrong no matter what language.

“In a statement to Inc, the airliner said, “We...”

When was the last time this imbecile was in a hospital waiting room? Hospitals look like fucking 4 star hotels these days. When Little Shoes was born, the accommodations were nicer than my freaking house.

I’m not sure I’d call higher ed progressive or family friendly, at least for women. None of the women I work with who are married or have children would probably say so. Academia is notoriously shitty about maternity leave—not that they don’t let you take it, but that women get seriously punished in their tenure…

A lot of the problem (in the US especially) is the carrot we all know as insurance. Best case scenario would be two parents, each working 25-30 hours a week. But since that wouldn’t provide insurance, at least one parent is thrust into the 40-45 hour work week and is missing out.

I am trying not to be super salty about this because any improvement would be good but for fuck’s sake. It is REALLY HARD for me to be rooting for better paternity policies for men (especially in other countries) when the maternity policies here in the US are still a goddamn crapshoot. I know it’s not the point of the…

The idea of 39 weeks paid leave makes me want to cry - it’s a punch in the gut to imagine something like that as the norm for women outside the US. I can’t even imagine how much easier that would make having a kid.

better paternity pay and at least 12 weeks leave offered to a new father.