Heh. I was just wondering about the crane. :)

Looks like he needs a little help getting it up?

Back in the day, I wore a moderate amount of make up to my mom’s nondenominational, “spirit-filled” church (it being church and all, and you should try to look nice, right?), and the pastor chose to use me as an example of “the verrah picture of beauty and immorality that would cause a preacher to leave his wife” so…

I binged watched it a couple of weeks ago. Some minor quibbles, nothing insurmountable. Love Fonda and Tomlin. The scene in the first ep when JF takes her makeup off is priceless and wonderful.

Drug tests are not instituted to protect employers, their properties, or to weed out prospects (Ha! See what I did there?). The main, under-reported reason for drug testing is to make money for the labs. It’s always about money. Always.

I would opine that “playing doctor” generally happens when kids are much younger than 14 years old. At 14, he already knows what it’s for; now he wants to see where he can put it. (disclaimer - was “played doctor” on when I was 5—not great)

Not one member of the press should cover it, and then they should cover the story of not covering the fight and why. Banning? HA! Refuse to cover it. (dream world, I know I know)

Wow, I hope so.

You’re right. Cops ARE people too. My daddy was a vice cop/sheriff’s deputy for most of my childhood, so I heard both sides for a long time, and I’m sure my own frustrations and baggage feed into my utter impatience with them (even though I hope that my dad was a good cop—I don’t know, and if material goods is an…

Thank you.

I started asking that question during the Nixon administration. If/when you get an answer, please tell me. How CAN we get rid of them?

I’m so tempted to hashtag this with some sort of passive-aggressive phrase, but the thing is? Of course, I vote. I stand and vote against the good ol’ boy backroom antics that have kept my state in poverty and religious torpor for decades. I call my representatives. I email my senators. I sign petitions. I man phones.…

None of us wants to tolerate it. It’s intolerable. However, they have the guns, the tanks, the ammo, the teargas, the pepper spray, the billy clubs, the kevlar, the shields, the rocket launchers, the seatbelt-free arrest wagons, and a political machine that not only pointedly blinds itself to their criminal, racist,…

I’m sure his God would forgive him for setting himself on fire. After all, it’s for the greater good, and greater love hath no man than he would set himself aflame for his penny-ante, mythological beliefs about fetuses.

I think I have a layman's education.

If anything is possessed, it's this hair.

We got there on the morning of the 10th, and the first day was killer, but after that, it snowed a bit everyday and then was gorgeous. Like it is. I can't wait to go back in the spring or summer. *enamored of Iceland in every way*

My God, were we in the same group? Blizzard the first day? :)

Oh yeah, my first thought (after nearly gagging over the smell of whatever they were eating), why? WHY DID YOU HAVE TO BE AN AMERICAN?

Why is it always US? I was in Iceland last month (one of the most fantastic places on earth), and as we were seating ourselves on the bus to go on a northern lights tour, this American couple seated in front of us started with "Next year when we come, we're buying a car! I hate these fucking bus tours!" and ended with…