PNWEmily

JUST STOP. Have some freaking faith (lifelong fan of 45 years).

This happened to us with our elderly dog. He went to have four teeth pulled and came home with basically no teeth because they said his teeth were just falling out all around the teeth they thought needed to come out. That was a fun bill.

I was craving French dip, and for $25 I could have French dip delivered, or for $20 I could buy the ingredients for five French dip sandwiches (in the very high COLA Seattle area) and indulge my craving all week with about 15 minutes of work. I truly do not understand the private sandwich taxi

This absolutely happens in other countries with charismatic traditions, like that guy in Jamaica who was trying to convince his followers to slit their throats.

When my kids were little I realized I was always just nibbling all of the stuff they left on their plate and it worked out to at least an extra meal a day. I don't really have answers, other than as they got older they definitely didn't leave food on the plate anymore!

Skip Hop makes the best stuff. I kept everything from when my kids were little and we still all use it

I have the wicked and Lisa Frank ones! Also 45 and unfortunately degreed in the study of the holocaust so they're pretty much the only thing I'm clinging to at this point.

I am a pretty progressive person in every other way, but girls deserve their own spaces when it comes to sports. Trans women can be women in a variety of other ways, but biology cannot be denied when it comes to skeletal structure, red blood cell count, and everything else

It's fine that you think everything will be fine, but we have gone up against clearly natal males at multiple points in the last two years in our state, and the whole idea of title IX was to give women their own space. I am not comfortable with just eliminating the entire idea of women's sports

Wrestling is done entirely by weight class

But how does that solve the problem of sports? How does that solve the issue of obtaining scholarships? My daughter is good enough at her chosen sports that she could be eligible. This issue is not going to just disappear by waving your hand

I keep the stats for the track team, and the numbers between the boys team and the girls team are just not even close. If we actually value the idea of girls competing in sport, you can't just throw everyone into the same pot

What is the answer? Natal males have every possible genetic advantage, and if there is no requirement to transition prior to puberty those advantages stay, particularly when it comes to skeletal systems and muscle development

As the parent of a girl athlete, this is still a really difficult issue. In the district just to the north of us, a kid transitioned socially, and went from being one of the worst in men's track to winning the district meet in girls track. We have no requirements for hormone therapy etc.

I've been a medical editor for a long time, and I can assure you that the only people who take narcotics for 12 months are selling them on the side, and end up in jail

The idea that anyone in this country does not have a library card genuinely blows my mind. My library system was one of the first to adopt an online hold system, and I nearly accidentally bankrupt them by ordering hundreds of books shipped directly to my house when I was a kid

Generic Sudafed is $1.50 at Costco. If you have a family that gets slammed by colds as badly as mine does. That alone can help pay for the membership

You will love it! We literally make back the membership fee in contact lens solution alone

My family already spends at least $1000 a month there, because it is our little local company made good, but this has me resolving to really put our deep freeze to use and do even more

The only thing I struggle with is that in my mid 40s, he very frequently appears to be approximately 12 years old, and it makes me feel even older than I already am

The first bit of Up is amazing, but the rest just doesn't work for me at all because it just sends into siblings without as much redeeming heart as most Pixar films, so I have to agree that Coco is far superior

They could've made 100 movies with Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke and I would watch them all

My entire blue sky feed this morning was people clamoring that it was a white supremacist Maga guy. Me reporting what the actual news is saying is adding zero fuel to any fire.

Dude, I am a minuscule drop in the bucket compared to all of the news organizations. You can probably climb off your soapbox. The fact that multiple explosives were found all over the French Quarter of points to something pretty sophisticated, not just a rando angry guy.

The happiness level in my house is utterly dependent on this game with a couple of longhorns whooping it up right now, so I very reluctantly must say hook 'em

It's wildly below Popeyes, but we don't have those where I live, so we have to make do in the fast food chicken sandwich department unfortunately.

It's being widely reported by the New York Times and other major news organizations. They found a furled Islamic state flag in his car and several other indicators. It may end up being wrong, but that is the word from the FBI sources right now

Islamic state unfortunately

NYT is reporting the gunman's name is Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, which makes the white supremacy angle seem a bit less likely, although it was a bizarre range of people who appeared to buy into white supremacy during the campaign.

A drive-by fruiting!