yes! Her partner, Gabrielle Wolohojian, is an associate justice on the MA Court of Appeals. People like Maura Healey make me ok with the fact that Charlie Baker is our governor.
She's also, unlike some politicians who shall remain nameless, a huge, huge advocate of sex education & making sure that all women, regardless of income, have access to reproductive health services & safe abortions. Healy's the first ever openly gay AG in the country AND just to prove how bad ass she is, she spent 2…
when I was at UMass (circa 2004) everyone was gung-ho about eating st the diner and it ALWAYS made me feel so uncomfortable being in there. I guess I now know why......
I've tried pretty much everything, including taking Plan B, accompanying a friend to a abortion & joining a women's health group at my college that focused on safe sex, regardless of sexual orientation, and who handed out cartons of cindims to pretty much everyone. The bishop still politely ignores my letters. Sigh.
If you're excommunicated, you're removed from their official numbers and not "counted" as Catholic. The church uses these numbers (which are clearly inflated) as political clout. I'm not OK that, personally. I don't go to mass, I don't identify as spiritually Catholic, but I'd be nice to have to option to remove…
That sadly seems like less work than trying to be excommunicated!
In short, yes. They consider you among their numbers since you never formally left the church. You're a "lapsed" or "non-practicing" Catholic technically.
Oh totally, I haven't been to church willingly since I was 14 (I went to Catholic high school so my graduation was in a church); I'm not active and consider myself more culturally Catholic then spiritual. My biggest pet peeve about wanting to formally leave the church is they use their "numbers" as political clout and…
actually, once your baptized you are basically in for life. You csn be the worst, most lapsed Catholic ever and they will STILL included you in all officially counts, numbers, rolls, etc etc etc. to formally cut ties, you have to be excommunicated, which is harder than it looks(and involves a formal petition to a…
Polls conducted by the Boston Globe have consistently shown that Massachusetts residents favor life without parole over the death penalty. because of this inherent bias, I'm really curious as to of the jury will reflect the liberal views of MA in their deliberations. I live in Massachusetts and those days following…
if you live near or travel to any major metro areas, most have ghost tours They are fun and historically fascinating, as you get a ton of information about the people who used to call that city home thst you probably wouldn't read on a plaque or hear on a normal walking tour. Check one out if you can!!
pretty much every park or green space in New York City was a burial ground at somepoint. Washington Square Park is supposedly extremely haunted. They also used it as a "parade ground" (for training militias) back I. The day and had problems with uh, sinking because of the decomposing bodies.
completely 100% true story: when this was filming, my second cousin in New Jersey was a well respected breeder & shower of show dogs (my family dog when I was little was actually one of the 'rejects' thst she gave to us instead of putting down)....the dog that played Roach was one of her dogs! Every day for like two…
Five-year old me gamed the system & somehow came up with the idea of requesting the Tooth Fairy leave me the tooth...and I would then proceed to bring it with me to each of my grandparents' houses and let that Tooth Fairy visit as well. Minimum of $5 per tooth. Those were excellent years.
I'm gonna throw my feminist trump card...Susan B. Anthony was my great-grandmother's cousin!
I must try one! The beauty of living in Massachusetts is it's pretty much a town ordinance that there be a Dunks within 10 minutes of your house. The one by my office is 5 minutes on foot :-)
I've been known to hit up my local donut shop for donuts (delicious donuts) then proceed to Dunks for coffee. I guess I've written off their crullers because of the "meh"-ness of the donuts...are they really that good?
As a born & bred New Englander, I'm happy to admit that Dunks has amazing coffee, but both their donuts & croissants are pretty shitty. I can't see how combining two lackluster pastry offerings will create anything other than a disaster....
I didn't say Clinton wasn't blamed, but most of the country seems to have forgiven him, whereas Monica is constantly reminded of a stupid decision she made at 22 every damn time she dares to make any sort of public statement.