Wisdom tooth extraction can be pretty painful. When I had it done, they didn’t give me anything except Tylenol and Advil, and it was not enough.

Frontline did a piece on the drug crisis and they interviewed a narcotics policeman who admitted he had no patience for the drug addicts he saw over his ten year career. He thought they were criminals and sucked on society. But now he has been arresting more and more people who look like him, his kids and he thinks…

I remember an instant in that meeting I mentioned. A white parent whose child overdosed said something to the effect of their kid not being “the kind of person you would expect this to happen to” and they pointedly made eye contact with me, the only black person in the room, as they said this.

This might be callous of me to admit but I can’t help but be fascinated when I hear all this ballyhoo about opioids and think how different the narrative was, just a few years prior, when the public believed it was only black people facing the business end of a national drug problem. I covered an opioid awareness…

Running this through my Trump Brand Empty-Words-To-Bullshit-Translate-O-Matic:

I didn’t differentiate between two types of parenthood but my health insurance did. My husband and I could never afford adoption, IVF cost my out of pocket maximum. It was truly our option.

This facility should have staff BOC building operator certified and alarms throughout their BAS building automation system with redundant power backup. The fact that states operate crime labs that keep their dna labs within one degree of temperature bandwidth and their are literal teams called commissioning teams cx…

We need a Reese Witherspoon of porn.

I don’t think that’s entirely true. There are scary stories, and there’s porn that you can see just from watching it is abusive. It makes me sick too. But I mean it’s just sex recorded on video, and therefore results may vary just like with sex in private life. Some porn stars are vocal about liking what they do, I…

What I find very interesting is the information that they film the women involved after the scene was shot to have video of them saying they weren’t raped. This sounds like a male studio exec’s idea - no one would want to say she was raped just moments after she was while being taped surrounded by her rapist(s). Talk…

Before I started reading the comments, I mentally prepared myself for a whole bunch of, “When you work in porn, that’s what you get,” grossness. I am delighted to find none of that. Good on you, Jez community.

So much for the people who insist porn is a “healthy outlet” populated by happy well adjusted people with broad minded outlooks on personal freedoms. For the hetro men, maybe. The whole industry is sordid and sleazy, just look at the stats on how short a time most women can handle the business. Makes me sad.

I find it utterly terrifying. I am so worried about the girls of the future. There are dudes that watch this shit and think it’s normal and consensual....

Read the book Dear Sugar, by Cheryl Strayed. She has a wonderful column in there about how wanting to leave is enough.

“Black Panther” has officially crossed a billion dollars in worldwide box office. A BILLION! I don’t know why, exactly, but I find that number sooooo wonderful and heartening. That, and the news on Jezebel about inclusion riders becoming a real way for Hollywood elite to wield effectively their enormous power is…

This week can suck it. Repeat visitors might recall that I broke up with my ex-BF the day after Valentine’s day after he ignored me and, when I called him on it, he implied that I was selfish for expecting text or any acknowledgement that it was a special day.

It’s been a less than stellar couple of months but finally something fabulous coming up... my puppy’s 4th Birthday is this week! I took for her an extra special spa bath experience today. I know she doesn’t know any different, but it makes me happy to make a big deal about it. She’s consistently been the brightest…

Meanwhile meanwhile, Hillary Clinton had promised to appoint women to half of her cabinet posts

“Wives and Daughters.” Yay! In other words, “Receptacles” and “Bargaining Chips.”

yeeeaah. I find it troublesome that an article about “how Frida Kahlo really was” makes no mention of her wealthy and elite background. I think she was rad, and I love her work, but ya can’t really talk about who she was without talking about her family.