I am so SICK of people telling me how to parent.

Dear god. My first reaction is to be disgusted with the boyfriend - but depression, suicidal tendencies, and addiction (which I assume is included here given his intoxicated state) are serious issues and I’m not sure that’s the right route. I do hope he gets help, though it’s going to be an extremely hard battle now…

The hottest new thing in Moniga del Garda is La Scaletta. It has everything. Waiters that whisper the specials breathlessly in your ear, pizza cubes, chairs made of shitty tippers, entitlement cocktails, lamps that look like upside-down boobs, ice with messages inside about everything you did wrong in your childhood,…

I’m hoping, from the last spark of hope I have left burning inside my cynical hull- that it can be BOTH what she actually believes AND a calculated political move. That being a decent human and supporting people is finally coming back to the fore front of what we want from our leaders. The calculated move is to…

...goddammit, I know that’s just a calculated political move but I’ll be damned if it doesn’t warm the rusty, empty and necrotic cockles of my useless, cold heart.

What is this supposed to mean? If he was the nicest kid in middle school, that she used to play football with, why wouldn’t she be surprised to see him there?

My problem with this situation and people talking about how compassionate the judge is is what if she didn’t go to school with the defendant? Then he’d just be another black criminal that doesn’t deserve compassion?

I agree. She had to remain professional, but she reached that man by reminding him of a history they shared. Had she been cold hearted, the judge simply would have ignored all that, addressed his legal issues, and moved the docket. I found it touching and wish him well.

If I ever find myself in front of a judge, I pray it’s someone like her. This is the kind of compassion a person in power should have and I hope she never becomes cynical.

She still has to remain professional in her position, and I think this is amazing and she is still conveying the person she remembers with dignity and hope to him. Makes me have hope for him that he will reflect with her remembering him “back when”, you know?

I hope her kindness is a catalyst for him.

I work in Ayurveda (alternative medicine) taught to me by Indian physicians. One day a lady came to me and asked

Don’t laugh at the stock photo of that child. My own daughter was recently diagnosed with shutterstock. She has watermarks all over her face and body, and she refuses to go outdoors.

Yeah, he's terrible, but—NO FATSHAMING, FOR FUCK'S SAKE. Isn't the whole point of having a corrosively divided political landscape to act better than your opponent?

Omg last night Rachel Maddow was talking about this editorial from Jersey’s biggest paper, and (SPOILER!) it’s a BARN BURNER:

Announcing at a public high school was fucking bold, considering his outright hatred of teachers and teachers unions. I will truly relish seeing him embarrassed on a national stage repeatedly in the coming months.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is running for president.

Anti-virus software gave my computer autism. #truth

Remember back when anti-vaxers were just a few misinformed hippies that no one took seriously?