Damn! I missed this meeting again?! Now I have to wait another 21 years!

It must be next-to-impossible for parents to say, “I don’t know.”

They never knew, just kicked the ball down the field until it wasn’t their responsibility anymore.

Ah but understanding that you don’t understand is the first step in uh something

I heard this so much in my “misguided liberal” youth. Now I’m in my 50s, and I have learned so much, seen so much, and can confidently be sure of*** even less than that of which I was sure in my teens and 20s***!

All of the people who told me “you’ll understand when you’re older” were full of shit. Some of them are still alive and one thing that I understand for sure: they stopped learning, stopped paying attention, and they are confidently incorrect about things that stopped being true during the first and second Reagan administrations.

Here’s a great example: my damned Conservative, MAGA, kick-the-ladder-out-from-behind-her mother. “You should just stay with an employer, stop changing jobs, and they’ll give you a pension.” Uh, yeah Mom, pensions are no longer a thing. Also, job hopping is how we get meaningful salary increases.