Kaiser and Group Health are affiliated.

These people are "helping" the transgender community. As if we don't have to fight enough for our coverage.

Group Health is big over on the west coast. In Washington state they have their own "transgender care coordinators" but if you know anything about insurance companies, it's to keep us insurance users from getting expensive procedures.

The only half-decent answer I've come up with is to donate your money to NGO and non-profit organizations working in these countries.

yeah. he was his usual mindless-sack-of-shit self.

Did any of you happen to hear David Brooks on NPR yesterday comparing the people who killed Charlie Hebdo shooters to colleges who fire professors who teach "the Catholic view on homosexuality"? What an unrelenting twat that man is.

They were so great, and smart. A wonderful indie theater near me once had an afternoon Animaniacs marathon during the town fair, and I sat and watched for hours and hours. Did you know that the Nations of the World song lists Tibet and Palestine as nations? Serious political chutzpah, those guys.

I'm highlighting this post for a couple reasons:

Sounds like it was a family business and he was an only child. If his parents left him the business there's not much anybody can do, especially if there's no shareholders, which I'm guessing is the case.

Anybody can wind up alone.

you can't defame the dead

I forgive Rose most things since she was brought up in the unholy horror of the children of god. I don't know how anyone could leave that mess emotionally intact.

ahem. there are two divisions of cool rock star.

THIS. He reminds me of my first high school boyfriend who tries to FB friend me about every 12 months. He seemed sooooo coooool and sooooo weeeeiiiiird in high school. Now he is just some sad 16 y.o. poser goth in a pushing-40 body.

This reminds me of the famous Onion article, "Marilyn Mansion Now Going Door-to-Door Trying to Shock People."

That evening, Linda Schmidt was preparing to drive her daughter Alyssa to a Girl Scouts meeting when she found Manson standing on her porch draped in sheep entrails.

I would like to objectify a lemon cake right now.

lol @ "I'm not a misogynist you bitch"

i sooo want to be team#nobody in this case

And you expect me to believe this is different from any other night in your household because, why?