Commenter Temperance says “She should call 211 / her local United Way to get information on local nonprofits that might be able to help her out for now.” 

I asked my husband to quit drinking beer around me in solidarity. That’s it. Wine is fine, don’t mind liquor, beer out with friends sure. He said yes, he said he understood and I caught him sneaking shit 3 times in the first two weeks. WTF. Honestly the sneaking part pissed me off the most. 

My best ever NYE remains the one where I got a migraine at the grocery store with my 10 yr old son, asked him to drive home (he wisely refused) and went home having purchased the most random collection of crap ever -(sons were delighted. Frozen taquitos AND pizza rolls AND rhubarb! yay!) and took my drugs when I went…

you’re likely going to stay in, order dinner and binge on Netflix until you wake up in a new year, almost certainly asleep before midnight. Alone. That sounds sad. You were in until the “alone” bit, right?

No thanks One evening a year of trump laden, mouth-throthing diatribes is enough for me. Already cashed that one in at christmas.

I was just there for Christmas.

A friend passed away because they were hit by a drunk driver, whose BAC was under the legal limit. It was extremely traumatic for all of us. We dont go to that part of the city. It forever changed my relationship with alcohol.

Would you consider teaching Ms? Not all women are married and constantly having to correct people and explain that you are not married (and often dealing with people wanting an explanation of why not) is not that fun. If married women prefer Mrs., they can ask for it, but Ms. covers all women in the same way Mr.…

Don’t you mean Ms. and Mr.?

I think I was in middle school when I realized I could call all my female teachers Ms without having to memorize their marital state (middle school was when we started having a different teacher for every subject so there was a lot more names to learn)... but it didn’t take me long to realize that if a teacher let us…

A religious belief is not eating pork or not working on Saturday. This is treating people like shit and then blaming god when you get caught.

My father, who is 78 and a Bill Buckley-style Republican, gets his coffee at a shop with a trans man working the register. My dad manages to call this man by his (masculine) name or “Sir” every morning. He has said he, “doesn’t really get it” but then he shrugs because why would he care? What’s it to him or Vlaming…

My middle school advanced English teacher told me I "shouldn't waste" my time making up the second half of the placement test for AP English for high school, mainly because I was getting a D in her class and barely put forth any effort. It was fun seeing the expression on her face when the high school specifically…

And yet, they usually have it all because their partner sacrifices, so they can. I’m greatful, my husband is a partner who does that for me. 

I had a school board psychologist try and tell me this after my 7th grade aptitude/IQ testing (my mother was a teacher in the school and told him to drop dead). I spoke three languages and was a straight A student, but I didn’t fit his profile for gifted so according to him I was destined for secretarial college (his…

That whole ‘so you can have it all.’ Nope, not at the same time. That’s a lie.

This guy seemed like a fanatic but not completely stupid. Did he realize the danger and thought God would protect them from influenza?

Isn’t being martyred on a mission to some remote village sort of the point of doing this to begin with?

He illegally went to an island KNOWING it was illegal and how that island operates and he could die and did it anyway. Let that be a lesson to anyone else who wants to fuck with people who DO NOT WANT TO BE FUCKED WITH.

Fuck this guy and fuck anyone that wants to retrieve his body. I’ve been fortunate to work with a variety of indigenous communities (in strictly non-religious contexts, and sometimes in direct opposition to the local religious nutjobs) and don’t feel a shred of sympathy for anyone that supported this selfish,…