This was the guy who wore a ripped white t-shirt to church with the family on Easter. It looked like he came straight from cleaning out the garage. (As if that’s a thing he would ever do, I know.)

I just posted something very close to this upthread, but you said it better. Its hard to explain how much the entire concept of rape has changed since then.

YES to this. CH is a few years older than me, born in 1951. Brownmiller’s “Against Our Will” was the real impetus to start looking differently at rape, and it wasn’t published until ’75. The concept of “date rape” started showing up in the early to mid ’80s—by which time CH was in her 30s. Thinking about rape was VERY…

An awesome new twist: Kim Davis issued a license to a transgender man and his wife back in February.

For what it’s worth, not only is she going to lose but she’s being played big time. Liberty Counsel is feeding her sense of victimhood and entitlement for their own benefit. From the Lexington KY newspaper (via Joe.My.God.):

As much as I’d love for it to be true, I haven’t seen it well sourced either. Supposedly a TV reporter drew the information from her current certificate of marriage, but there’s no place to record that information on mine (from Kentucky in the late 80s).

I wonder if the bank would go for a Roman numeral interpretation? L=50, so if you can fudge the usage a little and spot them the decimal a tip of LOL could be $500.50

That’s the same major I ended up with, so I get it. I hope you’re at least getting to write the novels.

In olden times (when I was in school) tuition was low enough and non-repay grants plentiful enough that college was in part a place to figure that stuff out, which made perfect sense. I went through something like three majors my first year. Just add “young-adult-friendly higher ed” to the list of nice things we can’t…

Ugh, I’m so sorry. That really sucks.

I know! He was supposed to be like a dorky/cool uncle who was gonna do good things about poverty! Not all Dark Side like this.

It is to her credit that she’s taken back by the idea of a bed with a $108k price tag and is willing to set foot not only in Sleepy’s but also IKEA and the subway. I’d at least put Gwyneth, the major Trumps, and selected Kardashians ahead of her. Just a thought - now back to my knitting!

Dear God. WTF is wrong with us that we just accept that? As Jon Stewart said a while back, someone tries to put a bomb in their shoe one time and we all take our shoes off at the airport now. But someone shoots up a classroom of little kids and we just shrug, “Eh, nothing we can do.”

And 28 should be old enough to know better.

And somehow now we’re at the point where mass shootings barely even register unless the body count is extra high or the shooter is Muslim. It’s almost literally an everyday thing.

Nothing more breathtaking than a clear night sky when you’re away from light pollution. It’s been too long for me.

Yeah, he was explicit that the reason was to never be open to scandal. And since he was Southern Baptist, there weren’t many issues with women in leadership positions because women weren’t (and still aren’t, for that matter) eligible for ordination.

When this comment I try to star
Kinja takes me to the top of the page—too far
But I want you to know I appreciate
How brilliantly Lord Byron you did downtake.

Subaru’s the state vehicle of West Virginia too—mountains & snowy winters, same as Vermont.

Forties were a rough patch for me too but as the kids say, it gets better. Around the mid-50s the marrieds start converting to widows and the field opens up.