A friend pointed me to this story on suffragette bodyguards. Those women were tougher than you might have imagined!!
This piece about poor people and what they choose to spend money on really hit home. When people want to jump all over what they perceive as misspending, I will always jump in to speak against that judgment. This piece provides even more insight.
Once, on a bulletin board site I used to frequent, a woman was looking for suggestions for a good place from which to purchase a cake for her son’s birthday. At each suggestion, she offered another requirement her cake needed and why the suggestion wasn’t a good one. The requirements included vegan, sugar free, any sweetness had to come from fruit, and so on. When I read this post, I wondered if the crazy mom in question was the same person. Yikes.
Over on Slate, a suggestion to stop saying goodbye at parties. While living in the land of long goodbyes makes this tempting, I just don’t know that I can do it.
Finally, one for my job-seeking friends. Eleven reasons why I won’t hire you. Some of them are pretty specific to the newly graduated, but most are applicable across the board.