My read is that Ortberg equated pedophilia with homosexuality as well as gender dysphoria, so his take was that the parishioner was trying to get better but Lavery and his wife weren't, since they transitioned. "How can you understand someone trying to fight their immorality when you decided to embrace yours" type of…

Imagine what would have happened had Lavery not spoken up. Imagine how many other times (past, present and future) children were/are/will be abused because people with inside knowledge do not speak up. I hope Lavery is safe and the person who expressed this level of attraction towards children gets the help they need…

This was a cynical play on our hero worship of people with cancer as saints. Cancer does not redeem anyone. Cancer is the second leading cause of death, with lung cancer being top amongst the cancers. Cancer is a fact of life, not a saving grace. 

Years ago, I had a friend who was trying to get on the show. While he was already very overweight, he was actually trying to gain more weight because of what the producers said they wanted, which was obviously a spectacle.

Dylan Baker is an American Treasure. My favorite of all his deplorables has to be Collin Sweeney, his rich, nerdly but charming, wife-killing-always-getting-away-with-it character from The Good Wife/Fight. 

White folks have already started in with the “complicated legacy” shit. Yes the same people that make excuses for all the rotten shit white folks do are choosing today to shit on Kobe. To all the white women and men trying this shit not today and on second thought not ever again after 11/8/2016. When you mother…

I paid off my mortgage yesterday! It took me 18 years, but it was 7 years early on a 25 year mortgage.

I broke up with my first high school boyfriend in a five-minute phone call that was prompted by my second high school boyfriend confessing his feelings for me. Oh and also they were first cousins / BFFs. Second boyfriend and I both felt our behavior was beyond reproach because the breakup happened BEFORE we started…

Ok, so I’ve not really delved all the way in to this, but it’s my understanding that the author has a grandparent from Puerto Rico.

Including Amazon warehouse and delivery staff.

Yep. Poor people will die by the millions before Jeff Bezos’s throat even begins to tickle.

Unfortunately, the ones who most need to be trimmed, are those least likely to be affected. They’re magically protected by vast hoards of wealth.

I live in East Oakland and I can confirm this. My neighbors with 4 kids had to move out from the house they loved because the rent kept going up. There are 4 houses in a 2-block stretch that are unoccupied, including my neighbors’ former house until recently.

there are 5 empty *homes* for every homeless person in the Bay Area. It’s obscene.

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https://moms4housing.org

Obviously it’s no Snatch, but I saw this a few weeks ago in a large group and we all loved it (admittedly, there’s definitely some kind of negative correlation between how many people are in the group and how critically they look at the film). Grant got a huge laugh with pretty much every line, Farrell and Hunnam were…

I am jealous of what a gorgeously-shaped head Ayanna has. She could totally rock the minimal look if she chose to. But I still do understand how challenging her hair journey must have been.

I felt so alone until I read this article and the comments. I’ve had alopecia for 5 years. Folks have no idea how the loss of your hair makes you feel especially when you don’t want to be bald. And while I have come to grips with wearing wigs, I miss my own hair. Thank you Ayanna and thank you Jessica.

It’s truly hard when agency is taken away from you regarding decisions about your body, even seemingly trivial decisions like how your hair/your head looks. And I can imagine how the Rep feels given the power of her twists in a time where we’re fighting to not have our hair judge as wild and unkempt by folks too…

Not a good one.

I did the same thing two years ago. Heart palpitations, shortness of breath etc. I sat in the waiting room for 5 hrs after being triaged. Hell by that time I was feeling better and was about to leave. A nurse came running out and stopped me. I had multiple blood clots in both lungs and the right side of my heart had…