Yeah, the one thing I do like about this is that she’s saying, essentially, “Look, this is my take, but I never claimed it was an informed opinion and it’s kinda on you if you expected it to be.”

I get that because I'm going to be the worst empty-nester ever, but damn - there would a bill for room and board.

Can you imagine the nuclear-level shitfit some conservatives would have if a liberal clerk refused to issue someone a gun licence because they didn’t like firearms? They’d be furious, and you know, rightly so. People have a right to expect public officials to follow the law, even if they don’t agree with it. If you…

This seems like the perfect response. Fair, measured, sympathetic, relatable and common sense.

“If you want to, for your own-self-empowerment, take personal responsibility because you feel like you need to for something you did, that is one thing,” she adds. “But you don’t get to make that statement for everybody else.”

I was thinking of that cat when I read this. That was badass.

I would go full on Liam Neeson level of vengeance on the mother fucker who dare shoots my cat. Inigo Montoya. Carrie. Hamlet. THERE WILL BE BLOOD.

You know what? As a gay person who’s been subjected to repeated legal discrimination—including being blocked from marrying my partner of over a decade until a couple of months ago, being subject to a ban on LGBT adoption, having to hire an attorney to draft POA and hospital visitation documents just so I could see my…

I still don’t understand how someone who has been married four times can say with a straight face that it undermines her religious beliefs to allow gay people to marry.

Aw, don’t hate yourself. Grief is totally, entirely disorienting and fucks with memory and reasoning and all thought processes. Really. You're being WAY too hard on yourself for no reason at all.

I don’t know about bizarre, but my grandmother’s funeral was pretty kick ass. She was a neat old lady, if not a bit cold, who was always ready with a cutting remark to mutter under her breath. When she died at the age of 93, she had already picked out for herself a sparkly, pink casket with brass inlays. It was…

That’s so awful. :( And we are lucky that it’s so rare now. I sometimes get a little nuts when I hear about women railing against the influence of “western medicine” when it comes to childbirth - advances in western medicine are the reason that childbirth is no longer a primary cause of death in women.

Which is why when I hear people criticizing mothers for choosing “medicalized” births over “natural” ones “because women have been doing it for thousands of years” I reflexively respond “...and it killed many of them.” And no, making people wash their hands before helping deliver a child did not magically change that,

I’m Irish and Polish. From New Jersey. If I found out he was cheating on my sister, I would be in her house, helping her throw all of his shit out on the pavement and weighing the pros/cons of lighting a bonfire.

I didn’t like any of this. As someone who has been cheated on multiple times, this made me queasy. I didn't like his answers or candor about it. No I will not "find myself in this situation someday", if I am with someone and want to be with someone else, I'll end my current relationship first cuz I'm not a fuckhead.

My dad was a pretty serious LOTR nerd before it was cool, i.e. before the movies came out. He read all the appendices and books by Tolkien’s son annotating his father’s notes and books about the linguistics and collections of artwork about Middle Earth. Two of these artists were particularly considered to be experts,…

The ring from my first marriage was basically worthless (titatnium band) because she insisted on a specific engagement ring and wedding band for herself that was actually quite a bit more than we could afford at the time. I was quite thankful for that when the marraige ended because it meant I didn’t need to feel bad…

Fair enough. She seems reasonable. I wish the Republicans could allow a sane candidate to maintain a platform that doesn’t involve pandering to the fundamentalist Christians. My husband is distraught. He just wants a fiscal conservative that isn’t obsessed with peoples’ sex lives and/or bodily autonomy.

If Scott Walker is your version of a moderate Republican, I’d like to kindly request to be removed from the planet on which you live.

Once, an 8-top of Christians left one of those “Here’s a Tip for You!” pamphlets on my table, in lieu of a cash tip. I was sort of used to this, so I didn’t remark much, just tossed it into the bus tub with the rest of the debris, and a glower.