in Zeke’s essay he explains how him and varner connected personally and started sharing stories about varner being gay and growing up, etc etc. I’m sure with the personal trust built up it was during their deep convos.

It is still not clear to the family how Malachi got his hands on the dangerous weapon. Stephens said that he got the gun from a friend who got it from someone else. Investigators are looking into finding out who originally had the gun and passed it to the friend, the news station notes.

Is everyone forgetting that the *Republicans* could have passed this without a single Democrat getting on board, and didn’t? Why is anyone playing into the narrative that the Democrats were the problem.

You know, I’m starting to think this guy isn’t as good a negotiator as he claims he is.

It’s the “his own people” that’s most telling. At a subconscious, gut-belief level, Spicer doesn’t consider Jewish Germans and Austrians to be Germans and Austrians, i.e. Hitler’s people. He considers them wholly Other in a way that is analogous to Hitler’s own Othering of Jews, gays, Communists, dissenters, etc.

Holocaust centers.

I don’t think he did it on purpose.

1. April Ryan needs a raise. I don’t know what they are paying her, but it isn’t enough to put up with this BS.

Me on a conference call when someone suddenly says my name and asks for my thoughts after 45 minutes of doing anything else but listening.

busy’s uber ride sounds fine. after 39 hours stuck in ATL airport, we got an uber from DFW at midnight and our driver would not shut. the fuck. up. telling me all about his son who is semi-pro ice hockey and how he trains all the athletes in texas, etc. etc.

1. My mom theorizes that the Property Brothers are fraternal twins who both got a little bit of plastic surgery to try and pass as identical

2. HGTV’s entire programming philosophy is home renovation + hosts who are slightly “off” in how they interact with one another so the viewer can speculate wildly about their…

“I can’t imagine what the world would look like if Hillary Clinton were the president right now... Blech.”

A mother I knew suggested I treat my kiddos very very serious, like yearly hospitalizations now takes 3 daily medications serious asthma with unpasteurized honey. Honey. We didn’t do anymore playdates after that, I cannot abide stupid (and I doubt she vaccinated her kids). 

So it’s not about Trump?

I don’t remember my mom being friends with the parents of any of my friends, and it didn’t even occur to me that she should be. It’s hard enough to find friends without the added pressure of aligning social circles with your child.

Ugh - I can relate to this so much. As someone who doesn’t have a lot of friends, I was really looking forward to having a kid and making parent friends.

But daycare parents are rude as hell and NOT friendly.

I have made one friend, and we also take the train to work together. My husband always tries to initiate plans…

Guys, Trump has done the impossible and made me nostalgic for Bush. I would gratefully trade him into the office of President in a heartbeat. That is how bad things are. And it pisses me off that Trump is making Bush, who was an AWFUL president, be whitewashed with positive sentiment. But here we are.

There is no way this withstands legal challenges. It’s not only an invasion of privacy, but it’s an imposition on medical professionals. Doctor’s job is not to “investigate”. This is the kind of “oppressive regulation” Republicans claim to be against.

Can we also arrest and persecute people who like blast their shitty music or play their beep-bop-bop-bip video games on the subway without wearing headphones?Those tinny sounding speakers aren’t making your crap jams any better, my dude!

Maxine Waters is a national treasure and hero. Her vote against the Iraq War Resolution in 2002 will confer upon her a legacy of being one of the few politicians of the era of courage and conscience.