My mom is a retired social worker that ran the in-home support services and my dad works in elder abuse prevention so while I don't have the first hand experience of having to provide for them, I have an understanding of the difficultly involved. My mom wants one of us to provide for her when she becomes infirm, but…

What about preparing them from a young age the reality that sometimes people leave us before we are ready to say goodbye. When I was a several years younger, I didn't think my parents were going to make it past my high school graduation. I thought I was going to have to bathe and clean my mother by the time I was 20.…

I think the greatest advantage that comes with late childbirth is the emotional security. If you're 16 and having a child, how do you honestly know that your child won't grow up to have body issues of their own if you yourself are still trying to accept your own insecurities at age 24. Not that it's the case across…

When I was 6 I figured out that my mom was going to be 72 by the time I reached 25. I am lucky to have parents that are good health, but I've known since I was little kid I've known I have to prepare for the day when they're not going to be around. I think it has made me more mature and appreciative of them. Sorry…

21 and similar story.

My mother was 41 when she had my brother and 46 when she had me. Having older parents is awesome. Seriously, they're the best. My mother remembers the days before Mad Men, the monterrey pop festival, and a whole bunch of crazy shit that younger parents had no clue about because they were still figuring themselves out.…

I have found her soulmate in a Mr. Father John Misty. They would make beautiful music together if you catch my drift. It's sex.

Wait, what?

Prejudice predicated on race is racism.

Thanks for the reply, I'm African-American and Mexican-American and I definitely see that what your describing is certainly applicable to hispanic culture, albeit much more nuanced due to broader understanding of race than in the rest of western society.

I think that the religious anti-choice camp run with the b.s. that God granted humans dominon over the animals. They'll conveniently ignore the whole "be stewards of the earth."

I almost agree with everything you're saying, but barring the whole conversation regarding the oppressor vs. oppressed, how do you look at it when it's two marginalized groups going at it with each other? If a Korean called a Black person a nigger do we look at that any differently if it was a Black person calling a…

Not to project my own thoughts onto this post nor suggest that you feel this way, but I'm kinda perplexed at how militant animal-rights activist can believe killing and eating animals is 100% wrong and that people should be put in jail for it, yet they don't see any similarities between their positions and…

dammitt, Peer review! Science wins again.

Ethics and rationale will be your downfall. Your side will never have the blind faith to push the button and hope sweet jesus that everything gonna be hunky-dory.

+1

I mentioned it to my mother and she could not understand how people could write things like that on the internet. She's approaching her 70's so its not like helped ruin the web for her.

Sorry, I mistook 'those' as the soldiers in general. Come on it's the internet. It's hard enough not to sound like you're giving someone a lecture in real life. With the internet you do get people who make overblown statements all the time that cause you to get defensive like you never would anywhere else. Ah, I'm…

yep.

Thanks, I read a bit more into it this morning. I don't know, I'm still on the fence about it. If I was in the administration I would have asked TNT to drop him with the understanding that the first family's appearance is closly tied to this event, which I'm sure the White House staff has already done in actuality.…