The presence of a gun in itself make the action more likely to happen. The presence of a gun multiply the chance of a woman being murdered by her spouse by 5. Part of it is mindset sure, a person more likely to kill their spouse is also more likely to have a gun, but part of it is that it doesn’t take the same mindset…

Texas reply: “The only way this could have been prevented is if the woman and baby had their own guns as well.”

“The Beedi Man”

The Servant

Honestly...even if you take all the toxic masculinity crap as true, you’re hiding in a building and yelling at women out a window. It’s not exactly the stuff of big-dick dreams.

I kind of need for this to be a Portlandia sketch. It was scaring me but another part of me was laughing at all the draaaaaamaaaaaaa. 

This app was doomed to fail. The women who are attracted to the kind of men who would be on this app start dating their future husbands in high school and get married as soon as they get out of high school or college (yes, sadly, some of these women actually a little education). Women who’ve remained single into their…

I thought Chris Hayes had a very interesting take. Not that we didn’t already know Republicans are devoid of values and care only about power (and “owning the libs”), but their reaction to this really underscores how absolutely hollow their supposed beliefs actually are.

This is about an uncle who was a real-life rocket scientist. He worked on the rocket fuel formula that got men to the moon. He was my favourite uncle, my father figure as my own was indifferent to me at best. It was a horrible shock when he got colon cancer. He married into my father’s family but was such a good guy…

When my dad was a teenager in the late 1950s, he used to work as a dishwasher at a Mexican restaurant that was near the local cemetery. To get to work, he could either walk the long way around the cemetery, which was twice as far, or cut straight through it. More often than not, he’d opt to go through the cemetery.

A little help from the other side:

A Single Flower

The Watcher

And here’s another tale from my mom’s time in the lab:

Pardon the repeat from last year, it’s my only weird experience.

“Tales from an ER Laboratory”

Posted this last year way too late and it got lost:

“one Oz-led study resulted in a litter of puppies being killed by intracardiac injection with syringes of expired drugs inserted in their hearts without any sedation. Upon being killed, the puppies were allegedly left in a garbage bag with living puppies who were their littermates”

“A local news outlet in Arizona reported this weekend that 14-year-old girl in Tucson was denied a refill on her prescription for methotrexate, a drug she’d been taking for arthritis and osteoporosis”

You’re missing my point.