Apparently there is a local haunted house called Bowling Green Massacre. Maybe that’s what she was talking about.

Reading the Daily Beast article, apparently the civil damages/injunction part is only applicable for D&E procedures, not all abortions. And the Rep is like “lol, the injunction part doesn’t really have teeth, because it’s for a procedure that this law bans anyway.” Which I’m pretty sure means that was done entirely…

I’ve been quoting that section of Exodus all over the place recently. I especially like verse 23&24.

Did they suspend the rules in the parliamentary sense, in that someone moved to suspend the rules, and then they voted, and the motion passed? Or did they suspend the rules in the sense that they just said, fuck it, we’re doing what we want?

I have several friends who went to the march in Topeka. I was going to go the one in KC today, but woke up with an incredibly sore throat, and from experience, that means if I had gone to the march, I would have lost my voice for several days. I generally like my job as a receptionist, but today it pissed me off that…

Oh joy. Because existential dread about my job (I work at a rape crisis center and we get a decent amount of money from the VAWA grants) is exactly what the doctor called for.

Huh. I’d never seen it called the Just-world Hypothesis before. Always the Just-world Fallacy. Which is a much more accurate name for it.

Thank you. Seriously, those words are pretty much exactly what I wish I was hearing from my friends and family.

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For me, I’ve always really wanted kids. But a genetic mutation make it really unlikely I’ll have biological kids. Of course, there are other options, but I always planned/wanted to have genetic offspring. I’m still working through that grief. I swear, if one more person, after I say I can’t have kids, says “well, you…

The language and mentality regarding chronic illness is so difficult for people without chronic illness to understand. A couple years ago, I had a diagnostic laparoscopy for my doctor to officially diagnosis my extremely obvious endometriosis and clear out what he could. Except, when he got in there, turned out I…

They also don’t tend to have a lot of people on them, or require payment, or have other problems. Asexualitic is paid, and only has binary gender options, and only allows you to select “man” or “woman” in “looking for.” As someone who is biromantic, that’s a bit problematic. Asexualcupid also only lets you search for…

Yeah, that’s my same issue with dating websites, with the added twist that I’m actually ace. It’s not just that I don’t want to fuck immediately. I don’t want to fuck at all. Not a whole lot of people on dating websites who like that idea.

It sounds to me like she does want to talk about it, but wants the people she’s talking with to acknowledge her reality and have the conversation she’s actually trying to have, rather than insisting that she’s wrong and she won’t be alone forever, even though, as she points out, there is no guarantee of that.

They were voting for someone who, if enough electors defected, would actually have a chance of being elected by a Republican congress.

Oh god, I hadn’t seen an image of the back before. That’s just hideous. Which, I guess, is probably the point.

....obviously the girl who took the picture and posted the caption did it on purpose. My point was that the men in the picture may not have been aware what she was doing with the photo after she took it.

When you’re a cheerleader for KU where those sweaters are official gear that all the cheerleaders are given, it becomes a lot more likely it was an accident.

I think the university did the right thing, suspending all four of them until the investigation is complete, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they conclude that…

Kris Kobach isn’t either of those things though. What makes him so dangerous is that he is incredibly smart.

I’m not sure which attributes in that list are supposed to apply to Kobach, but, to be clear - he is not incompetent. He is SCARILY competent. I know this photo makes him look stupid, but he is not the kind of person you want to underestimate. As a Kansan, Brownback is awful, but Kobach is the one that is really…

“There’s some speculation that Kobach did it on purpose, but that gives him a lot of credit, I think.”

As a Kansan, this is totally believable to me. The scariest thing about Kobach is that he is *smart.* He doesn’t just have horrible, evil ideas. He’s really really good at making them reality.