:( I'm so disappointed in Illinois today, too. The first results I saw this morning were YES minimum wage, YES birth control...and then Oh Shit, Rauner, SADFACEFOREVER.

I have to vent about Illinois's results for a sec, because dafuq? There were four referendums: 1) crime victims bill of rights 2) increasing minimum wage to $10/hour 3) taxing millionnaires an additional 3% for schools and 4) better/more inclusive voter laws. All of these passed by a LOT, yet we voted in a Republican…

But HOW? Aren't cockroaches pretty large?

But Madison is cool as shit, so I'm glad it's spreading out into the communities right outside of it. :) I would totally live in Madison. I love that farmer's market!

Touche. Although I'm talking specifically about the fact that the handful of Wisconsinites I know are not big earners, and yet they think voting in a Republican is going to help them leverage higher pay/better opportunities. It doesn't work that way. The poor will keep getting poorer. The rich will keep getting…

Nope, you're not all bad. I'm marrying one of your kind, after all! Haha. I can say the same comment about any rural folks though, it's not unique to Wisconsin. Rural areas are red areas because people mistakenly believe that Republicans are looking out for them... and they're not. They're looking out for the upper…

I agree with this comment. I've seen a few good posts here and there, but largely I've been super disappointed, too. I miss Lindy something fierce. I was even warming to Callie and then she bailed, too (smart girl).

Right? I've spent some time there (was just there this past weekend) and have never felt unsafe. But, people talk the same about Chicago, too.

Which is why I said "The Wisconsonites I know," specifying only the small handful of people I know who are from your state. Thanks.

In general, I've been disappointed with the new writing, but there have been a few gems scattered here and there—and this is definitely one of them. But, I also have a macabre fascination with medical anomalies, especially from the 1600s-1800s before modern medicine truly came to be, so I was bound to be hooked by…

Oh! And my fiance's mother was remarking about a particularly unsafe (in her opinion) section of Milwaukee, where she said, OUT LOUD, IN PUBLIC AT BRUNCH, WITHOUT WHISPERING OR LEANING IN, "My blonde head does not belong in that area."

The Wisconsonites I know are mostly rural-as-fuck and completely assbackwards in thinking that Republicans have their best interest. Um, no.

I live in Illinois, but pass through Wisconsin regularly to visit my fiance's family/friends. It is absolutely disgusting how many Scott Walker supporters I saw on a recent drive up there. So many people proudly display his campaign signs in their own front yards. The fuck? How can anyone support this scumbag?

Uhh, isn't she feeding a newborn in that picture? Which would mean, by golly, if she "ballooned" that maybe it quite possibly has a TINY bit to do with the fact that she just produced a human life with her own body? Hosted it, fed, it, nurtured it, and now has to focus on keeping it alive? Wow, sound the alarms, god…

I honestly feel bad for the people who take time creating their profiles and take time reading other people's profiles and crafting careful messages. I never did the online dating thing, but my fiance had a terrible time on OKCupid, from his own account. He says he would spend 45 minutes reading people's profiles, and…

I was around age 13 during the 2000 election, and I distinctly remember thinking I would have made for a much more educated voter than the average 18+ year old citizen. I feel the same about voting as I do about parenting: if you pass a test that shows you're a halfway intelligent human, you should be able to…

We have one of these in town near me, and for years I thought it was an outdoors/camping/snow sports shop! Unfortunately my fiance thinks that cheap, poorly-made garbage makes for great Xmas gifts for people he doesn't want to spend a lot of money on, so we spent a considerable amount of time there last holiday season…

But people talking IS so boring, because 99.9% of the time they just want to talk about themselves. And who honestly cares about my three kitty furbabies? Me, and that's about it.

All I wanted as a teenager was to be an adult, because I was so full of angst and couldn't wait to make my own decisions and not be bound to my parents and their home. Buuuuuut, as is always the case, I look back now and wish I'd been a little more care-free and loose back then. I don't know what the rush was to get…

I'm reading these in bed, home alone, just me and the cats.