"how is an addict NOT a trainwreck? a selfish ass?"

That there was a personal history of abuse makes it "extra sad" because two generations of abuse is sadder than one generation of abuse, simply by virtue of quantity.

The marriage of religious fanaticism and competitive sports culture has to simultaneously be one of the most obnoxious and most hilarious products of the American melting pot. Not that people in other countries may not have done it first, but I really think we do it best.

Unfortunately this is an example of thinking of addiction as a moral failing rather than a medical problem.

I agree with her in general but I'm going to take a sec and stick up for Intervention - that show actually did a phenomenal job when telling the back stories of the addicts and making them seem like addiction was not something that selfish or abnormal people did, but simply something that can happen to any normal…

As the child of a drug and alcohol addict, I think that is a really unfortunate position to take. I think you can intellectualize the idea of addiction—the fact that it is very much a disease, with huge physiological impacts on the addict—while still being hurt and/or angry at the addicts you've known personally, who…

I completely get that addiction can be impossible to understand for someone who has never been addicted to anything. So for your own sake, and for the sake of addicts around you- just stay the fuck away from them and never say a damn word about it again.

I am the lead author (John Kelly) of the article cited in this editorial. I'm afraid to say that the piece written here is wrong and actually is the complete OPPOSITE of what we found in this study. Women benefited AS MUCH AS men from AA participation, BUT they benefited in DIFFERENT ways from AA. I would strongly…

Ok this is waaaaay too easy. Tell me are you also one of those people that consider themselves "color blind"? haha~

It's not every single one. Just some of them. Seems like you're the one focusing on this.

Jesus loved it when people called women sluts. He was all "throw stones at those sluts!" I think that's how the story goes.

And yet conservatives can't understand why they don't appeal to a younger demographic, or women, or people of color, or...

It's telling how they define the word "slut." Having sex isn't actually necessary; all that's required is being female, existing, and having opinions they don't agree with.

Hey man, they've got class!

Bible class.

Go her, her friend, and her dad! It's sick that old men think it's ok to call her a whore and crap. She's got the right idea!

It's so icky how Republicans can actually say that stuff about young girls in public... *shudders*

Yeah, it struck me as impossibly sad that Rachel keeps referring to Trayvon in the present tense. He's still alive for her. In J37's mind, Trayvon is just a stat on paper — already dead, already gone.

We're very sad that it happened to him.

"He could have walked away and gone home."

I wonder when I will be able to listen to Amy Winehouse without getting upset about her death.