Of course they will back down.

Yes, a thousand times, yes. Make anyone who sells a firearm to someone who then uses that firearm to commit a crime, an accessory to that crime. Fuck this fucking shit. ENOUGH.

I look forward to an even longer filibuster when republicans fuck it all up. Woooooo.

Zero fucks to give Obama is the best Obama. Going to miss him so much.

My dog is the opposite. Day care is her jam. When I come to get her, she doesn’t greet me - merely looks dismayed. Then as I try to lead her out, she keeps turning around and looking longingly at the workers.

One of the many (many, many, MANY) I am so madly in love with my dog I can hardly stand it:

I think it might’ve been possible to beg for leniency/mercy without trivializing the crime and dismissing the the victim. In fact, I’m sure of it.

this is something I hadn’t thought about, shamefully.

I have an uncle who is schizophrenic. In the mid 90s, he was arrested for attacking a repo man with a cricket bat. He left that poor man with serious, life changing injuries. My grandparents were asked to write a letter to the judge to help his defense and they wrestled with what to write.

You should be okay with it. It’s up to parents to teach their kids right and wrong, that choices have consequences that are bigger than the person who makes them. A parent who excuses their child’s abhorrent decisions and requests leniency because of such petty impacts on the perpetrator’s life, completely…

I find that I am completely ok with demonising this particular parent for trying to get his rapist spawn off with a slap on the wrist.

Persky made a controversial evidentiary ruling which allowed the jury to view seven photographs of the alleged victim “partying about a year or so after the alleged gang rape. In the photos, she is scantily clad, wearing a garter belt and what appear to be fishnet stockings.”

5 people died. Barring medical emergency there had better be charges.

you can sit down on that “only”

So I agree that it’s bullshit to have mugshots shown for some people and not for others. But for rape, I kind of wish all of the photos were of the smiling, yearbook type. There’s this perception that rapists are different - not your neighbor or your boyfriend or your brother. But they are. And the more we see that a…

Good for you. Any way people are getting some sleep that don’t involve chloroforming your screaming infant is A+.

I am attachment parent to three cats. They like to sleep on top of me. Daisy will often wake me up because she * must* sit on my face or squash he face up against mine at 4am or walk across my forehead. Life is good.

If I ever have a kid, forget sleep training, they’ll be crate-trained by 12 weeks.

Oh, the comments section on this one is going to be fun...

Let me get this straight: Every season, 12 contestants go on multiple dates with a single bachelor/ette, many of them romantic, in an effort to get them to fall in love and get married by the end. But all of these people involved are surprised to find that their whirlwind romantic battle with 12 contestants would…