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"Palomino! Palomino!!..."

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I've been to every one of my four children's recitals, as well as every one of my two grandkids' recitals - my lucky wife didn't always have the time....

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Votes! Votes! Votes!....

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I'd argue that it does still mean something, just not anything necessarily positive.

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Maybe it's like choosing to be gay in the most fundagelical reaches of, say, Oklahoma?

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Will men enjoy going back to 16-hour workdays, when all the women are removed from the workforce?

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I hate when that happens. Can we get a "Sober, Understanding Nod" button instead?

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I know you did, and thank you for that image in my head this evening.

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Ew.

- women

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There was in my house. Took me years to finally suss out that my mother was a secret drinker, while my father was just a a weekend drunk.

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You livin' the life, man!

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It never has before.

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The Fox News nation has a new icon. Conservative men want his beard. Conservative women want to be his beard.

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Careful, kid, you'll put yer eye out.

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Sure, but who can afford that these days? When I was young it was sort of a joke that Soviet women had to work. Apparently it inspired the bosses though. Now husband and wife both have to work for about what the husband used to make. Progress.

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And it just makes sense that someone in a woman-dominated profession like teaching or nursing should make less than someone in a male-dominated profession like construction for the same number of hours and the same amount of seniority because REASONS PEOPLE. sheesh. howmanytimesdoihavetoexplainthis

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