There are OBs north of Bangor — but they’re all locum tenens, and they’re not equipped for most neonatal emergencies. My BIL is an OB and did a couple stints in Calais. Not only is the continuity of care an issue when you’re dealing with doctors who are there for a few months (or just weeks, depending on their…

I chose a ring that isn’t a solitaire for exactly that reason. Mine has a bunch of teeny diamonds in leaf-shaped settings that are clustered together so it’s essentially flat. I love that it’s a little different, and it’s practical.

We’re so fucked. 

I’m a New York City employee (not a teacher) and due to go out on maternity leave at the end of August. Many mornings I get on the subway, the car I’m in is plastered with adds for NYS’s paid leave law, which I don’t have access to because I’m a public-sector employee. City employees who aren’t covered by collective…

Not to mention the TV roles. I first fell in love with him as Danny Byrne on the mid-’90s British show Ballykissangel. So good.

When he’s Ray Donovan, he is that guy.

I’m about 13 weeks along, so I’m not showing yet and all my regular clothes still fit, but the “morning” sickness and food aversions have pretty much ceased (thank god) so I’m not feeling especially burdened by it at the moment. I think “lightly pregnant” would be an apt descriptor — in fact, I might start using it…

Would you be asking if this was a man who “worked up the nerve” to introduced himself to a famous/successful man? Maybe she thought taking the initiative to introduce herself to the guy who owns the building she works in (and who’s known for appreciating entrepreneurial spirit) might further her career? As a woman,…

I used to feel the same way (I had a 120 lb. husky-shepherd mix), then I got the dog I have now. He’s a 25 lb spaniel mix and he’s a very, very good dog. He loves to hike and swim, and he travels well and is easy to pick up if necessary.

I honestly can’t decide which look is more sinister,

The response TPM got from directly from DOJ is even better:

Re: RGB and her legal genius, my favorite SCOTUS-nerd podcast More Perfect did an excellent episode about Craig v. Boren, and how Ginsburg used sex discrimination cases where men are the victims to prove social harm. (And how she saved the day after the male attorney bungled the argument.)

I’d say at the rate he’s going hi might risk running out of power-hungry assholes willing to help prop up his regime, but then again, this is America so unfortunately that pool is deep.

As my dad likes to say (and he loves the Beatles), “The Beatles were a group, not a band.”

If you’ve read the piece on Paul Manafort in the Atlantic, this development isn’t surprising. He was involved in some truly fucked up shit, and Gates was his #2 and literal bag man.

Speaking of speculative fiction, I’m in the middle of reading The Power right now, and it’s giving me life. It’s not perfect, but man is it nice to read a narrative where women (literally) take the power back.

He can’t even see fit to put a competent adult with some actual public health experience in charge of this public-health crisis. We are so fucking doomed.

I’m infuriated by the fact that he has the vocabulary of a toddler. (Especially after having an actual orator as president for eight years.) Seriously, does he even know enough words to give an entire SOTU speech? As someone who writes remarks for elected officials, I honestly can’t imagine what having to write for…

One of my main criteria for an OB was finding someone with evening hours. Luckily I live in NYC where it’s not hard to find practices that cater to working women. I did have to take a couple days off because I was so sick I ended up in the ER for IV fluids, but it’s flu season so I used that as my cover.

Fuck Lynne Patton. NYC is in the midst of an actual public housing meltdown (which she’s been pretty much silent about) and this is the shit she’s pulling. She needs to be gone. I know it’s too much to ask from this administration to hire people who actually know what their doing, but I mean, COME ON. This bitch is…