Yes.

I’m uncomfortable.

Including taco Tuesday???

I would say that an artificial dad is the partner of a married single mom.

Ya know, I’ve never actually seen a real photo of her before, but I was scrolling and thought “is that that lady with the portrait?” And wouldn’t ya know, it is. 10/10 for capturing her likeness and essence. Must be tricky considering the little I know about her seems to indicate she has no soul.

One of mine hisses all the time. She’ll hiss and then slow blink. We say that she’s swearing and has a potty mouth, because she grew up in the streets. If I hiss at her she doesn’t flinch, so I have to physically move her from doing something I don’t like.

Costco sells rotisserie chicken at a loss. It’s an easy way to get cheap, relatively healthy, low effort protein.

So angry at Nestle and the time they killed all those African babies doesn’t even hit your highlight reel. I agree- we can do without Nestle.

I appreciate that, but I also want to avoid tribalism in relation to politics whenever I can. It’s not about teams or colours in my eyes.

Running a country the same way he ran his casinos.

It was actually so nice. I walked into work and nobody was talking politics because it didn’t feel like the world was ending.

For any conservatives, I’m sorry. I work and am highly involved with vulnerable people, and I vote to protect them as best I can. A vote for PP would not have been a vote to protect the most vulnerable I know, which in my eyes is what a society is meant to do.

So there’s that, but also the position of “special counsel” or whatever dumb title he holds is time limited. You can’t be an unelected government official indefinitely (although I’m sure the current administration would change the rules if they cared enough to keep him). He’s making it sound like he’s bowing out, when it was the plan to step down in May from the beginning.

As though he cares to look.

If a group of parents coordinated wearing “All Lives Matter (but Black Lives Matter Less)” wristbands to protest inclusion of a black athlete, sure.

I don’t know if it’s the circles I’m around or what, but this is not my experience at all. As someone with a nonverbal autistic loved one who was bullied with this slur, I disagree with the idea that it doesn’t cause harm to continue to use it. If someone uses it I ask that they don’t use it around me and that’s been respected. Language evolves over time, and we need to evolve away from using what was relatively recently a medical diagnosis as an insult.

I’m a fan of mindfulness and gratitude practice. Also, physical exercise! Nothing like working up a good sweat when I’m mad at myself to feel better after.

It sounds that we are on the same page, in that it should not be difficult to vote. Logically it follows that introducing barriers to voting is wrong.

As for the financial piece- all I will say is that circumstances change. $50 dollars may not be much to you (or it may not have been much at the time of the initial name change), but it could mean the choice is between being able to vote or being able to eat.

Friend, I don’t think anyone is arguing that it’s impossible. The problem is that there’s an additional burden (financial and administrative- have you ever changed your name? It’s a nightmare.) being targeted at mainly women with a side benefit to the Republicans of affecting trans folks.

Do you see how that is inequitable access to voting?

Nah, I’m sure he has a perfectly valid reason for not wanting to get security clearance.

I’d dice into large chunks and roast it, maybe as part of a sheet pan meal. I bought chicken shawarma spices and garlic sauce recently, so maybe I’d roast with red bell peppers and chunks of chicken, tossed in olive oil, and seasoned with salt, shawarma spice, and lemon pepper.

That said, can I come to your house for breakfast please?