As a 50 year old Aussie, what I find the most hilarious is that what you Americans consider far left extremists is pretty much the mainstream in most of the rest of the western world.

Absolutely. My ultra conservative family still dismisses my liberalism because I’m “young.” But I get more liberal, in terms of what they would consider liberal, as the years go on. If I’m a 35 year old with a spouse, a mortgage, a buncha kids, have now been in the work force for 20 years, how much more of an adult do…

I’m in my thirties now and working in legal aid. I would have to have an actual brain injury and total amnesia to see what I see every day in the lives of my clients and turn around and become conservative. If you open your eyes to the reality of the effects of politics on people’s lives, I don’t know how you can…

I don’t think she’s blaming others, she’s just highlighting the influence they had on her—she knows that she wasn’t very politically aware, and because she didn’t know enough about it to earnestly care about the issues, she used what resources were near at hand—her family and her boyfriend. I’m glad you made the…

If your friend was a true fiscal conservative, he wouldn’t be a Republican.

Agreed. I usually hear it spouted by people who had no head when they were 20, and never decided to get one.

“If you’re not a liberal when you’re 20, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative when you’re 40, you have no head.”

Starred because it deserves to be ungreyed. But I disagree that conservative policies are reasonable about money - see our military spending, the long term cost of cutting funding to health care, social safety nets, and education. It doesn't matter if you save a dime here if you lose a dollar later because your…

That’s not entirely fair—a lot of teens aren’t really educated on the issues, and if their families and friends are conservative and that’s all they know, they’re more likely to lean conservative. I was the same way (sans boyfriend) because I was raised in a very conservative Christian environment. I grew up and then…

Loved this. It so so so sums up my life politically—I grew up in rural Kentucky in a very conservative Southern Baptist family. When I registered to vote when I was 18, I registered Independent, but still voted Republican with my parents. When I was a freshman in college I was on the email list for the campus pro-life…

He CAN’T handcuff her! There is a process for contempt of court; he didn’t even charge her with contempt of court. He made her sit in the corner like a fucking toddler in time out. There is no reason why this should have happened.

I’m in no way a doomsday prepper, but if I had unlimited money I would have a crazy bunker with enough supplies to last for years. Why not?

And we all know if the genders were reversed the judge never would have pulled this bullshit.

Doesn’t that perfectly describe her husband, too? I feel like they’re actually a perfectly matched pair: gorgeous, actually pretty talented... And yet, lacking a certain something that somehow makes them less than the sum of their parts (and I’m not saying that something is internal vs pure perception or happenstance…

I’d rather watching this cat fall asleep.

Seriously batshit. I had both my kids while in my 30's and was exhausted. Everyone’s talking about these parents dropping dead. What they’re not talking about is how physically draining caring for an infant is and what effect that might have on an elderly person. My 70 year old MIL falls asleep in front of the TV at…

Nah, Holly was a hoe who is trying to make the mansion look bad although she knew exactly what she was doing....effing an old guy for money.

I kinda think that you need your husband to agree to having a kid, personally. I wouldn’t say “I don’t want you to have a kid at 70” is a demand. It may well have been, “what if you die for this kid we might not even be here to parent?” Reasonable women don’t add additional family members and lifelong obligations…

While I am hopeful that the doctors in question fully evaluated the couple before they undertook this, I have doubts. First, the name of the place includes “test tube baby”. Second, they did this knowing her husband objected. While it’s certainly not 100% up to a husband what happens in their marriage, I can’t imagine…