A couple of my doctors did that before I left the US in 2021. They stopped accepting insurance and started charging a monthly “membership fee” that would cover a certain number of visits per year.

It was fine to have my landline listed, because I didn’t have it with me in my pocket all day.

I would not want my cell number to be published. Mostly because I already get enough spam messages.

I just assumed this was the situation as soon as Dementia Don started talking about Greenland. I’d bet dollars to donuts he didn’t know where Greenland was before Putin put the idea into his addled little brain.

Anyone who thinks I’m a bot can bite my shiny metal ass.

As it turns out, there are tens of thousands of WWII veterans who are still alive. World War II has not actually passed out of living memory.

How did we get to a place where “Hitler was bad” is no longer the default in mainstream US politics?

This is not okay. This is not normal.

They’re well on their way to having exactly the same face.

He definitely has a type.

I’m surprised that Noem is still a brunette.

Bondi is terrible and all, but this is a photo of press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

Strive (v): To try, a little bit, sometimes, if we feel like it

Mostly because he sees everything as transactional.

When you’re a drag to be around, nobody hangs out with you unless they want something from you. And that just reinforces the worldview that everything is transactional.

Has there ever been a year when Louder than Life wasn’t muddy as fuck?

An empty bio and one-word replies sounds like someone who’s not worth talking to. I don’t think that’s your failure.

In my experience with three different UU congregations, they can be pretty varied.

My former city had one that was Protestant-lite, one that was nearly neopagan, and one that was so insular that I felt unwelcome as a visitor.

An unsolicited photo of something random might not be something everyone responds to. I wouldn’t necessarily send a response.

So if she doesn’t respond, it doesn’t definitively mean she doesn’t want to talk to you. Maybe try again with something that actually indicates that you’re looking for a response. Like … ask a question about something you know you have in common.

Did you finish the reading for class? I think the part about ABC could be interpreted to apply to XYZ. What do you think?

You said you like comedians. Have you seen the new Marcello Hernandez special on Netflix?

Make it something that could turn into an actual conversation if she answers you.

Remember that time he wore a tan suit? What about the time he asked for spicy mustard? Fox played those up for days.

Please stop reminding me how old I am.

My brain automatically read that in Richard Ayoade’s voice.

I think you’re right.

I grew up in the '80s, and I heard more about “homosexuals” in church than anywhere else. (I also knew far more about abortion than anyone else in my kindergarten class. As an adult, I would say my understanding was not age-appropriate.)

The good news is that the final straw for me losing my faith was going to university and actually meeting openly gay people. They were nothing like I had been taught they would be. And the whole evangelical house of cards came crashing down for me.

I hope other kids in these sorts of households have similar revelations.

Since only Congress has the power to declare war, people who care about accurate language (especially journalists!) use other terms to describe troop deployments outside officially declared wars.

The US military has had names for nearly all of their operations since the mid-1960s, and these traditionally have been used by the press. Operation Power Pack in 1965 (invasion of the Dominican Republic) was the first one I found in my cursory search.

Major ones I remember from my life include Operation Desert Shield/Storm/Strike (1990s), Operation Enduring Freedom (“war on terror” in Afghanistan after 9/11), and Operation Iraqi Freedom (“war on terror” expands inexplicably to Iraq).

This type of framing is not new, and it’s not a conspiracy. It’s a bunch of language nerds making sure that they use accurate terminology.

This was my position when my husband and I moved in together, but I could not convince him.

Then we got a kitten who loved to drink from the faucet. After the second time she fell into the open toilet on her way to the bathroom sink, he got on board with keeping the toilet closed.

19 years later, we no longer have that sweet baby, but it’s still a habit.