Moe Lane

Via Hot Air Headlines comes this reaction to this NYT article on Wall Street women and their stay-at-home husbands. Let me make something clear: while it is not exactly sunshine and unicorns,  I am not a victim for staying home with the kids. For that matter, neither would my wife be if she did. What happened was basically this (from the Time piece):

In one instance, the husband put the brakes on his architecture career when his banker wife started to make twice his earnings. At that point, “the solution seemed obvious.”

Indeed. Being able to live on one income* has a lot of advantages, assuming that you can live on that income. And it’s more flexible than you think: I know one family that has a stay-at-home mom with three kids and half my family’s income. The trick is to not rack up stupid amounts of either credit card or student loan debt. (more…)

Original one, of course.  We DO NOT SPEAK of the fifty foot parthenogenetic gecko.

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By Constant Reader BigGator5.

Here it is.

…Yup.

Original here.

Moe Lane

This was not particularly smart to do.

Michelle unamused RT @Slate: whoops RT @alex_abads: Selfies at funerals. pic.twitter.com/n4CVsICKXK

— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) December 10, 2013

That’s it. She’s right and her husband is wrong. And he is going to find out precisely how wrong he was, just as soon as they semblance of privacy…

Moe Lane

PS: As for the handshake… screw it, we should just declare victory in Cuba over SOMETHING and normalize. Because Fidel Castro is apparently just living to spite us at this point.

We all have these little hiccups, of course.

.@scottlincicome @BenK84 For the record, I was not calling Paul Ryan a cold-resistant cockroach.

— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) December 10, 2013

It was the first link on Ben’s Transom, which is one of the two/three* email blasts that I voluntarily subscribe to and read.

*I voluntarily subscribe to both the RedState Morning Briefing and Jim Geraghty’s Morning Jolt, but only really read the latter: I’ve already read the stuff that’s linked to in the former, after all. Heck, I’ve often written the stuff that’s linked to in the former.

This one is somewhat less teeth-grinding than yesterday’s.

Less nonsensical as a snow day. #thistown pic.twitter.com/HeCYvMiflR

— Moe Lane (@moelane) December 10, 2013

They’re saying three to five inches, the high end of which is respectable for the Northeast. I still think that we could have safely gotten the little darlings packed off to school yesterday, but nobody asked me.

Oh, I will be Grumpy Moe today…

It’s that time of year again!

A Christmas Carol, Tom Lehrer

…No, actually I quite like the holiday.

Seriously.  This is one of the three things that they’ll remember about us, ten thousand years from now.  It’s going to be the Moon landing, the various Golden Ages of the Republic*… and the Duck Dynasty Chia Uncle Si Decorative Chia Pet Planter.

…I am content.

Moe Lane

*Right now we have finished up our third a few years ago. Or maybe fourth: depends on how you’re scoring the Twenties.

Nobody will give a good god-damn if you play it, and then this happens to you:

Real shame, the way the assailant tripped and fell like that.

Via AoSHQ. I’m pretty sure that it’s real: I traced it back through several iterations, and it doesn’t look like it’s been debunked yet.

This is what they closed down the schools for.  Two hour delay of the federal government opening, too.

This town.

Moe Lane

PS: Why, yes, my children are melting down.   Why do you ask?

Free Fallin’, Tom Petty

Just the title, really.

this,

…based off of this.

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