I can’t fathom dying it. Not even highlights. My mom is nearly 70 and has never touched a dye bottle. I mean, what if we didn’t like it? We could never get it back to the original color. Would have to chop it off. Plus, since the time I was 5, total strangers in hair salons have been not-so-covertly glancing over at…

The number of guys who admit to rape if you describe it with any words but “r-a-p-e” is fucking terrifying. Like, “Sure I pulled out fistfuls of someone’s hair during a sexual encounter in which I forcibly penetrated someone, yeah, of course...but I’m not a rapist.” (1) The description of that thing you just admitted…

I honestly can’t imagine being one of these women and seeing this cover. If you were one of his early victims, to look at how many women came after you and wonder if you could have prevented what happened by speaking up...or to be one of the later women, and look at this photo and see how many kept their silence*...I…

I think that we’ve made political office into a position where you have to (1) love power, (2) love attention, (3) believe you are right all the time and can make decisions for everyone else, and (4) be ruthless enough to survive an election cycle. The fact that this personality type has a strong overlap with misogyny…

You keep using the words “supposed to”. That phrase does not carry much weight in American politics nowadays. :(

I know three hetero couples who broke up or nearly broke up because the woman had higher earning potential and an overall better grasp of financial planning. The guy would be dead broke and buying a new X-Box while his gf worked overtime and balanced her checkbook; in each case the guy felt hugely threatened by his…

Calvin Floyd, a former talk show host in Columbus, Georgia told the newspaper that Houser appeared on his show, Rise and Shine, over a dozen times:

VERY scary. I saw a guy having a stroke/seizure while driving when I was a teenager. His foot was start-stopping over the brake, so he never gained enough speed to do himself damage. He went straight through an intersection, straight down the street past my bus stop, to where the street T-ed; obviously he didn’t turn,…

I am completed entranced by this story. Why did the baby hate you? How was its tiny baby brain able to formulate so many different attack methods? Why did it never cry? Was it secretly a demon? Are you secretly a demon? This is going to haunt me forever.

Not to get into a lengthy debate, but if you look through the comments on this article, a fair number of people seem open to the idea that it might have been suicide. The real conversation seems to be centering on the idea that the police had a responsibility to “protect and serve” Sandra Bland even and especially…

You need to develop excellent secondary selection qualifications. Memorize the recipe for Cinnabons or steal a copy of the unpublished 7th book of A Song of Ice and Fire and threaten that if you die, those secrets will be lost forever.

Fingerprints = unique marks = your embryo is a special baby snowflake?

Exactly. You can see him corroborating his version of events with the female officer, getting his story straight. He very clearly didn’t expect Bland’s protests to get far enough for anyone to see the dashcam video; makes sense that the entire department, top to bottom, genuinely did not expect to be given any…

Holy shit, you’re right. That white car drives up, disappears in the middle of the road, then reappears; then the same car makes a left turn three times in a row.

I thought you might be, but I wasn’t 100% sure and apparently I was in an Explaining Things mood. Sorry for the long response you didn’t really need. Thank you for taking it in stride. :)

Let’s talk right now about the fact that this looks like it’s heading for a grand jury and there has already been some implication that the DA, Elton Mathis, has some history of being called a racist. Is this going to be Darren Wilson all over again?

And let’s talk about a time-honed strategy being used by the arresting officer: see a “suspicious” driver, speed up behind them, wait until they move out of your way, pull them over either because (1) they made a minor traffic violation while attempting to get out of your way or (2) because they were so eager to get…

Where the fuck are all you free speech mouth breathing motherfuckers? Free speech is not the right to be a snide little shit on the internet without people calling you on it. Free speech is the right to criticize the state, and by association anyone acting on behalf of the state, like an on-duty motherfucking police…

I can’t tell from your tone what you actually believe about rape and serial rapists, so my apologies if you already know this & agree, but maybe it’ll be useful for other people reading the thread who aren’t aware of the stats. The most thorough report I’ve read is from 2002, but there’s no reason to assume the…

I know this follows closely on the heels of the Supreme Court decision, but it seems like it’s also a reaction to Obama’s Hobby Lobby loophole. If a fundamentalist Christian boss doesn’t want his employees taking birth control, under current law he has to submit an exemption and the healthcare department will provide…