I’ve got a lot of Bengali relatives so I’m probably hearing more about this than the average American, but it’s really, really fucking dark, guys. I’ve seen way too many pictures of dead babies coming out of the region.

How does the quote go? Having a child is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body.

Okay folks, it’s STUPID QUESTION TIME.

I understand why people don’t like the “they’re Americans!” messaging, but I don’t think it’s from a place of trying to whitewash PR’s treatment through history or implying that we should only help Americans.

For all the faults in our current relationship with Puerto Rico, we should remember that we HAVE a…

I want to see it when I can, but right now I can’t justify paying a baby sitter just so I can go experience a gritty dystopia for three hours when I could just turn on the news channel instead.

When it comes out on video, I’ll watch.

That was amazing and brave - just imagine how many lives they saved.

If that is true that makes all this even stranger - you are absolutely supposed to seek medical care after using an epi-pen to make sure your condition is stabilized. They’re first aid, not a cure.

Well, she did ask for an epi-pen, and you honestly don’t want one of those injected in you if you are NOT having an allergic reaction. Of course, a panic attack brought on by freaking out about police being called in to deal with you might feel an awful lot like an impending allergy attack too.

All the more reason to…

The air on a plane is so recirculated that no seat may be safe if someone had a true “life-threatening” allergy. From the airline’s point of view, if they put her in, say, first class and flew and she had a reaction mid-flight and died, they’d be sued faster than you can blink.

She was already asking for an epi-pen…

My mom has a literal deadly allergic reaction to mango. You know how often she has been cross-contaminated with mango? One time in ten years! And yet she still carries an epi-pen set wherever she goes, even thought it’s a total pain in the ass and expensive as hell to keep up to date, because you don’t fuck around…

The FAA commented on this incident with a list of dog-free airlines, saying people with a severe or threatening allergy should try to fly those if possible. Of course, that’s easier said than done considering how much some airlines tend to almost have a monopoly on certain routes.

So, how long until we’ve got politicians shooting onstage at faceless targets they “jokingly” call by their opponents’ names?

Yeah, I inherited a tiny black doll (complete with tiny black yarn braids) that literally came from my mom’s cradle, and I have no idea what to do with it.

Heck, our local Y is $100 a month a for a family.

Maybe this is just childhood rose colored glasses, but isn’t that what Murphy Brown was about? I mean, she did have a kid, but the guys were never central to the plot or memorable in any way.

It’s no time like the white folks in the Jim Crow era were paragons of education. They were just wave don’t through by sympathetic inspectors or literally grandfathered in. (If your grandfather could vote, so could you. GEE, I wonder if that was aimed at freed slaves.)

With a name like that, there’s no way there’s not agents cracking jokes about “Operation MAGA.”

Yeah, in my hometown they had a bunch of people die in the local jail because it caught on fire and the guys in charge just literally ran away. Fire department got there and everything, but the delay in getting people out of their cells because the guards weren’t there to help killed everyone. Worst fire my dad said…

Going to be a bit of an echo here, but did you? To get the hardship waiver they have to sign papers threatening them with two years of jail time if they can’t prove it, which isn’t calculated to be threatening to people with few resources at aaaalllll.

Saying people with warrants will be nice and safe in jail ignores how dangerous jails are and the obvious fact that MANY people with warrants have family that depend on them. So what, should the single mom with a warrant for parking tickets head to the shelter, drop off the mobility impaired grandmother with her small…