I wouldn’t recommend it for someone who was in need of medication, for obvious reasons, or someone who was totally undiagnosed or in the midst of a severe psychiatric crisis of some kind. But I had seen a regional shrink through my job, who had diagnosed my general issue, but he was literally only in town once every…

I’ve used Pride Counseling, the LGBT variant of Better Health mentioned in the article, and while my initial introduction to my counselor was via text, every session I’ve done with them has been over video calls. I don’t see how this would work if someone couldn’t or wouldn’t use the video call option. I’ve only ever…

Well, since everyone is telling their horror stories, I guess I’ll offer up my non-horror story. I have actually used Pride Counseling for around six months now. I was dealing with pretty severe depression and anxiety, and I knew that I needed help, but I live in France, and frankly, the prospect of trying to seek out…

That’s kind of a weird argument to make, considering that New Hampshire is also adjacent to Bernie’s “home” state. And given the weird political demographics of New Hampshire (oddly conservative by New England standards, for one), having grown up next door myself, I wasn’t surprised that they favored Bernie over…

Can people with restraining orders out against them legally purchase guns? It seems like they shouldn’t be able to, but something tells me that in most places, they can. I agree that some kind of an ankle bracelet situation could also help, since at least then you know where they are.

And just fyi, there hasn’t been a near constant discussing of banning women’s religious garb. There is a ban on covering your face completely in public. It’s not been discussed for close to a decade, it just exists.

Oh, don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten that at all.

She’s really gone off the deep end, IMHO. Her nasty comments about LGBT people, her nasty comments about people who are trying to spur change in a way that she doesn’t think is best, her nasty comments about anyone who’s not fawning all over her, basically... I’m done. If all you ever do anymore is rip into people…

Oh, yeah. It’s wild- we had one poor kid, probably 18 or 19 years old, who initially caucused for Gravel in 2008 and was I think the only one, who was then subjected to half an hour of haranguing about why he should caucus for Obama or Clinton by a bunch of adults twice his age. The whole thing was so ridiculous and…

Yep, sounds like my experience in Maine (albeit in 2008). Super uncomfortable, the whole debate/change your mind thing was incredibly weird and led to what amounted to voter intimidation, just totally inappropriate. I have no doubt that it goes down similarly in Iowa, too, because we have comparably rural…

It happened at the caucuses in Maine, too, from what I heard from my mother. I couldn’t caucus in 2016, because I was posted overseas and couldn’t just pack up and return home to go sit in a cold gym all day. They did allow absentee caucusing that year, which I did, but I’m still not all that convinced that those…

Did you really just come at a literal Jewish person with your fake-ass outrage? Sit down, you racist, POS troll.

Recovering train conductor here. This particular case doesn’t sound like there were extenuating circumstances like the ones you describe, but it was pretty common that we would have elderly people or people with disabilities show up on our train with no prior notice- I worked a relatively short route, also with no…

Yeah, if they were originals, it would still be fucked up to sell them (why not sell some gold star of David patches from the ‘40s while you’re at it?), but it’s an antique store, they’re antiques, and as you say, it’s possible that the shop owner found them in a purchased lot of stuff or something. But fucking…

Not to mention, I don’t think most young people especially want to spend their time at church playing foosball, or whatever. There are lots of places, including one’s own home, where you can do that. Ditto drinking coffee or playing basketball. If you’re at a church, it’s probably because you’re seeking community and r…

Jesus talked about marriage, all right. He also talked about divorce:

Yep, this. I’m a born and bred Mainer, and from what I’ve heard from back home, the non-bonkers people up there are pissed about Collins’ behavior, particularly with regard to Kavanaugh, and very much ready to be done with her once and for all. Meanwhile, the True Believer types in her own party swear she’s a “RINO,”…

Can’t speak for Alaska, but I can say that my mother back home in Maine has been protesting her ass off outside Collins’ office on a regular basis for years, at this point, and is absolutely gunning to get her out of office once and for all. And she’s not the only one. Collins has made a career out of posing as a…

The fact that every last one of the pricks who are lining up to shit all over Yovanovitch and the other State Department witnesses here, most of whom have served tours in some very difficult, very dangerous places, were bleating endlessly about Benghazi and feigning outrage at the deaths of State Department personnel…

According to Wikipedia, she’s still in the National Guard, and hasn’t she made her military service and deployment one of the selling points of her campaign? I mean, look, be in the military or don’t be, it’s no skin off my nose, but it is pretty rich for someone who is literally still in the military (to the point…