The comments on this article make having a kid sound fucking awful. I've listened to so many parents talk about their kids for so long it has become abundantly clear that having children is actually *supposed* to be a thing you do when you're young because it's the only point in your life you don't know any better,…

"I think that may be true for many people dealing with these types of problems long term because it does create a kind of self awareness."

Things are really bad at work right now and it's really throwing my symptoms into overdrive. I have an appointment to get my meds back now that I have insurance, but in the interim, I am not easy to be around on rough days. I have been very paranoid that my fiance is going to leave me because, while I've always been…

I'd be interested how it differs from a mid-30s cat owner in Savannah.

I would say 95% of the people I know who are officers have no business being officers. They're morally decent people who are not dumb or malicious by nature, but I'm 5'5 with no training and could easily take any one of them down without issue. I would fully expect them to reasonably feel threatened in most…

There's a reason Hunter S. Thompson never attended any of this shit straight.

That's not unique to CPAC or righties, though. I received the same kind of treatment at leftist functions when I would table for a right-leaning organization of if I outed myself politically when I was a PIRG (the Sierra Club should name an award after me for how much money I got Repub licans to donate to their cause…

I was an active, conference-attending Republican all through my 20s, which coincidentally I spent almost entirely stoned. There was pot, you just didn't know where to look. I would have gladly been your pot sherpa had I been there.

"Minnesota Not Openly Hostile" is more like it.

Lakeville.

Midwestern food is largely designed to be drowned in either ketchup or ranch. I've waited tables in various corners of the country. The #1 region, in my experience, for well-done filet mignon requests was the upper Midwest. I lived in a great food city, but I can't think of what I would classify as Midwest cuisine…

I would think she means someone with such clearly bad judgement and instincts.

The Old Guard is super problematic and awful, but a lot of their terrible hatefulness isn't trickling down to the younger generation. Be patient! This is a problem that will reach a tipping point in electoral power and die out!

When I was in about 2nd grade I got invited to a birthday party for a friend who hung out with the cool group of girls. (I've always been the fringe person of a group, usually only really friends with one member but not enough of a social pariah to be totally excluded.) Anyhow, the group of us all left with the…

Banal Bey - THIS. Hard.

NYC had dual colored pencils that had black T one end and iridescent baby blue or lavender on the other. I had one of each and regularly wore them for a daytime look. Oh my 20s.

I just threw my W&W away in the fall. I had only ever used it for marking my eyebrows for the über plucking of the time. I tried highlighting once and looked like an alien. I hold on to stuff for way too long.

Bourdain is my foodie boyfriend.

What do I need to do to quit being gray so people see my replies? I'd like to be a contender.... Charlie.

Speaking of remembering one's meds... How was that rude?