That’s just because prisons are horribly isolating and people generally like to work meaningful jobs. It’s the lack of pay and the refusal to hire them as firefighters afterwards that makes the program unethical. It's like how you might like your own job, but you wouldn't like your boss stealing your paycheck and…

When I was 22 I had an affair with a married 48-year-old man. To my knowledge, it was never discovered by his wife or anyone else. He was not rich or famous, but he did make me feel very safe, important and worthy. My own emotional growth at that time was less than my age, but I saw myself then as a fully liberated,…

Ooooooooooooor, he could’ve recognized that he was in a position of power and kept his dick in his pants no matter if a pretty young intern was making goo-goo eyes at him?

Except for inordinate amounts of frame rust.

This story uncovers two things everyone already knows: NOTHING can stop a Toyota truck and nurses are bad-ass and save lives. Still, it’s cool as hell.

More shout out to that bulldozer driver needed. Would love to get a detailed story on that bamf.

“Can you imagine 25 years of marriage, to one person, even Barack Obama? Or 25 years of anything?”

Oh, children. You don’t imagine the time. You imagine the things you’d like to do with your time. And then you try to do them.
(Just celebrated 26 years of marriage with Mr. UrbanAchiever and no, we didn’t imagine it. We…

Oh, man, this hits me where I live. This was my coming-of-age, during the hey day of this kind of retailing (high school & college in the late 90s/early 00s), and there’s still a weird sort of internal pull toward Vicki’s (gawd) and Abercrombie when I’m at the mall, despite the fact that I never felt comfortable in…

I know, I know it’s a cliche, but I was spanked and I really think I’m fine. Or at least that’s not what fucked me up. What fucked me up, was yelling. My mother would fly into yelling fits and rages. I accidentally knocked over a glass of milk and she would yell at me for 10min. Stuff like that, that’s what got me.…

I just signed up and had to verify my identity by answering a series of multiple choice questions only I would know the answer to.

I like how you posted three articles that actually gave parents responsible ways to “discipline” their children and the only take away you could infer was that children hate discipline and psychology is dumb.

Well, dang it i was spanked and...

“And it’s with this context, with this history, and with my own experience as a parent (and a child) that I ask those who still believe in corporal punishment to just consider something. Your parents and my parents and our parents’ parents did the best they could with the information they had access to. All I ask is…

Fantastic. Now can I get Amazon to stop shipping me a single thumbdrive in a 3 foot x 4 foot box full of air pillows or a ten disc Blu Ray set in a paper bag, resulting in a limited edition that looks like it went ten rounds with Ivan Drago?

How do you design a medieval world without accidentally replicating the look of Monty Python and the Holy Grail?

While I know the Constitution (with some subsequent amendments and laws) puts the rules/running of in the hands of the states, the more I find out about how states run things more absurd it becomes. And depressing.

- mostly white idiots

Based on my own experience working w/ high school students, adolescents often have a very rigid, even judgmental sense of right and wrong when calling out other people and institutions (that righteousness can also be an asset in naming injustice), yet a still-underdeveloped capacity to assess and take full…