“The idea that after passing tax reform, as if it’s the only thing I care about, that I’m just going leave, get up and go, it’s ridiculous,” he said.

Thanks. she spent day at the vet and they had me come in after they closed and I thought they were going to tell me her kidneys were shutting down. The vet came and said she’s fine, except for the fact that she’s blind, which had really surprised him. It happens in diabetic humans but rarely cats and apparently she’s…

They do. I just know some of the members and what they’re like and know I wouldn’t be able to stand the constant harassment.

Ugh you guys this really isn’t the place for my whining, but I when I got home from work my senior citizen diabetic cat who has been struggling for over a year with intermittent insulin resistance, and seemed fine this morning, totally isn’t fine tonight. She’s disoriented, subdued and not really eating and looks a…

Most of the men in my family are volunteer firefighters, one of my brothers is a volunteer EMT in town/paid one in the city, and if I didn’t live in such a sexist backwater, I would be a volunteer firefighter in a heartbeat. EMT’s have scheduled ride and dispatch shifts, firefighters carry a pager and if it goes off…

I went to a Franciscan university and the friars and nuns were some of the most insanely tolerate, loving, social justice minded individuals I’ve ever encountered.

I agree completely, I just wanted to make sure it didn’t seem like the actual firetrucks had them. They likely get away with it because it is Trump country and all emergency services out here are volunteer based so it’s not really a job to be fired from.

I should clarify that: the members are big into having the full rear window decals on their personal pickup trucks.

I’ve never ridden and even to me that shit looks wrong. I was sort of disappointed that he didn’t fall off because it sure looked like it was headed that way. At the least, his back is going to hurt tomorrow.

Heard. I live in a redneck backwater in New York and the damn thing is all over our town. The local volunteer fire department is real big into the full rear window decal.

I just noticed that. I was thinking it didn’t sound like Brody. Which made me realize I spend too much time here.

A couple of years ago, I won a bright pink kayak in a raffle at a women’s DEC workshop benefitting a group called Casting For Recovery that offers fly fishing retreats to women working their way through breast cancer. They’ve found that the mediative quality of the repetitive action of casting is good for the mind and…

The cynical part of me says Cosby had nothing to lose by staying with her husband and potentially something to lose in a divorce settlement, whereas Chapman is still out there trying to keep her business brand successful and there is no way that was happening if she stayed.

“They don’t know your land, and truly, they don’t care for your land like you do,” Trump said...”

Ugh I HATE HIM. And I half hate myself for the fact that he got under my skin the same way my little brother used to; by being a sore fucking “winner” and never shutting his goddamn mouth.

There was a quote from Ivanka in some article about how she is always trying to get him to slow down while eating. Which gives me hope that maybe he will choke.

I don’t think Pence has the following that Trump has, which means his chances for reelection aren’t as strong. Which made me feel good, until I started thinking that maybe he could get behind starting a war to stay in power because of the whole not changing presidents during wartime precedent and I got depressed all…

In the intro to one of her cookbooks she speaks about how she got really sick and was diagnosed eventually with a laundry list of (mostly insane) ailments, though I’ll give her a pass on thinking she was dying/having a stroke, which was actually a migraine. Enough of us have experienced that delightful hell. She has…

Or that he wants to be sure when he does die, everything avoids estate tax.

Yeah, it wreaked havoc on my physical heart in addition to emotionally wrecking me.