I have never at any point in my life told even one woman that the cops will always help them. If you took the time to keep reading I very clearly agreed with another poster that that is not always the case, and that it is absolutely a problem in certain areas more than others and is an issue that can and needs to be…

Baby is 9 months. Took her to a science center today; she loves to play with water.

klonopin literally saved my life too. i have generalized anxiety, not as bad as my depression but still impacts my everyday life, and it was always just brushed off by my doctors. since i was 7 i would once or twice a year have *insane* panic attacks with the feeling of absolute dread, unable to speak, eat, sleep,…

2017 is going to see the end of Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and the ACA. 2017 is going to see the end of the minimum wage, the 40 hour work week, and any and all employee benefits. 2017 is likely to see the end of public schools. 2017 will see the end of Net Neutrality. 2017 will see the final demise of…

This week was horrible, let alone this year. We found out that my stepdaughter was raped a month ago, and that she’s an alcoholic. She’s 15. She disclosed that she’s been drinking since she was 9. Her mom caught her drinking when she was 12 and my husband did nothing to get her help, nor did he get help for her when…

I’ve been writing Dragon Age fanfic for the better part of the year and today I got a surprise from one of my readers. She made a watercolor of my two main characters and mailed it to me. It’s so pretty I can’t stop staring at it. Ee! I love nothing more than inspiring someone else to make something cool, even if it’s…

In a vaccum, Cosby’s old jokes are all still funny. But nothing can ever be experienced in a vaccum. When you listen to those old jokes, you can’t help but be reminded of Cosby, and what kind of man he was, and that naturally kills the mood.

He was so incoherent and inconsistent that people projected whatever they wanted to hear onto him.

Many of Trump’s voters aren’t just unhappy about their and their children’s economic prospects, they are also made very unhappy by their perception that somehow people of color are “cutting in line”

He was so incoherent and inconsistent that people projected whatever they wanted to hear onto him. Lots of “well, what he meant was...” and “clearly he doesn’t mean that” delusion. The NY Times had a whole article about people in Florida who depend on Obamacare and yet voted for Trump, falsely assuming he was lying…

I don’t necessarily think those are two different groups of people. The KKK endorsed Donald Trump during the election. I think people who voted for Trump either were so misinformed that they don’t realize what racist policies he espouses, or they are at the very least willing to embrace his racist, sexist positions…

Thank-you for the thoughtful answer! Do you think it’s a decades-in-the-making kind of frustration, coupled with a “things were better in an unspecified before-time that I am either misremembering or was too young to fully appreciate, but I’m going to pine for it anyway” kind of thing? Egged on by a lot of people who…

I don’t believe the overarching motivation for voting Trump was change. It was anti-change—anti-progressivism. Liberals pushed a black president, gay marriage, BLM and plain red Starbucks cups down their throat and goddammit if they’d allow us to elect some uppity WOMAN as president.

I totally agree.

While unemployment is way down in the US, wages have been stagnant for years. The types of jobs available are more and more likely to be part-time, unreliably scheduled shift-work in the service sector. A generation ago, people in the middle of the U.S. (the people who were responsible for electing Trump), were able…

No. I’ve tried really hard to be accepting of people’s differing viewpoints, but as far as I can tell it’s impossible at this point in time to be a Republican without literally being evil.

Seriously, What did they expect? The dude flip flopped throughout his entire campaign on so many things, Hell, he was flipping on things that he said on camera. There was blatant evidence that he is a fucking liar and these people still voted for him and expected him to not still keep doing what he has been doing his…

Okay, but as an outsider, non-American, what I don’t understand is where the “desperation for change” came from if not from a place of white supremacy or racism. Wasn’t Obama an unbelievably successful president who brought healthcare to millions, killed Bin Laden, and remained relatively scandal-free for 8 years?…

I can’t get joy out of their suffering? Like hell I can’t. I had my heart set on Clinton. On a President who, in Obama’s words, looks like me. On agroforestry. On Clinton spending military resources to stop the illegal wildlife trade. On her plan for solar. I’m also a political junkie, and I can no longer watch CSPAN.…

Morons deserve what they get, if there was only some way that only they could be punished and not the whole world that would be great... but no they did this shit to everyone... under Clinton they would have had health care and Obamas new overtime rule would have raised their pay but instead they elected a know…