It’s hilarious, I loved peas (fresh, frozen, canned, GIMMEH) as a child.

Heh, I literally had to look up this reference. I have never read a Discworld work.

Ted Cruz isn’t white, he’s Canadian.

That last bit—preventing them from having choices—that’s the key. Folks like him don’t *like* having choices because they are HARD. They are hard because folks like him don’t have the empathy needed to weigh positive and negative liberties in decision making, so they just don’t want decisions made—much like an…

This is but one symptom of the infantilization of patriarchal people. Actual adult people understand that Life Has Hard Choices and learn how to prioritize in order to make those choices wisely and live with the consequences either way. Adult Children (male and female, but it’s all a symptom of patriarchy) can’t with…

Duh! Sperm are way more important to Sky Daddy than ova, that’s why Sky Daddy ensures each man makes millions of them. Each day. And if you protect your ova from sperm, you are friendzoning them which is just awful.

Scarlett is a cold blooded murderer. She alone keeps the nasty flea- and mite-bag squirrels that live in the oak and pecan around my house at bay. She had one small litter of kittens (2 boys, one still lives with me) before spaying. In the spring when I would leave the back door open to let in the fresh air, she would…

Yeah his acting prowess was off during that answer. The best way is a shrug, a wistful smile, and “What can I say?” Then looking down at your shoes and changing the subject while wiping your nose.

I got hit with joblessness and homelessness during a summer in Alabama. Instead of problems with cold, there were problems with the crushing heat we get (exacerbated by the stifling humidity). I went to a Salvation Army shelter. I had a bicycle with folding rear baskets and a laptop so I pedaled to a coffee shop with…

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The GOP is actually shrinking. They’re just also good at demoralizing others away from voting, at casting the false idea that both parties are exactly the same so why bother (a neo-libertaryan bullet point I see all the time), at disenfranchising people out of their right to vote or ensuring their votes don’t really…

I hate to bust this bubble, but among the GOP there don’t really seem to be any serious candidates. It’s one of the reasons their lineup is called the Klown Kar. (And there needs to be another K-word there for it to be scientifically accurate.)

An acorn is not a tree.

My elder daughter moved into the room my previous roommate occupied, and found to our dismay that said roommate had left bedbugs in her wake. DE worked well on the exposed bugs but it didn’t do boo to the ones hiding behind the paneling on the wall. We had to resort to a combo flea/bedbug pesticide that came in a…

Last thing I ever saw with Peter Berg in it was Shocker.

I can’t even look at this. For some reason I can’t pin, I literally despise the shape of his mouth. It disgusts me in a visceral way. I don’t like this as I feel horribly shallow for thinking this but...srsly I nearly get the voms when I see his mouth.

Right? My bestie’s ex husband is a piece of shit in a human skin but she trusts him to have unsupervised visits with his daughter. If the visits must be supervised, there is a reason.

Kinda mixed about this. On one hand, a bunch of grimy dude-pirates singing the praises of respect to women seemingly without coercion was cool...and actually the woman captain kind of ruined that. I loved that the captain was a woman! But it kind of let the air out of a tautly inflated balloon.

Oh my fucking word, when I came off the morphine drip in the hospital after reconstruction of my leg...THE ITCHING. I wanted to swim in a sea of brillo pads and nylon bristle brushes.

Discordianism!