I posted a comment on Facebook that defended Planned Parenthood. In response, someone said, “They hack babies to bits, then laugh about it over lunch.” I had no idea there was so much baby harvesting and hacking going on!

And it’s not just Sarah who continues to reap totally undeserved column inches and attention. Bristol-fucking-Palin held onto a spot at the top of the Yahoo news feed for two goddamn days because of her ignorant “opinion” about this. It was treated as a legitimate news story, which is completely insane.

I agree 100%, and that’s my beef with most of my conservative friends and family. They’re shills for Fox News and rarely take the time to seek out information from other sources. To them, it’s the gospel according to Fox.

He’s using the well-thumbed Republican playbook. Say whatever the fuck you want to say, then say you never said it.

Imagine being me, with a HUSBAND who thinks Trump would make a great president. Who also—when I broke our no-politics pact once and asked what he thought about her—said Palin would make a great vice president.

Psoriatic arthritis sufferer here. I’m on Humira and have taken hydrocodone regularly since 2009, with no increase in frequency or dosage. I take one 10mg pill every six hours. My rheumatologist will occasionally prescribe a few oxycodone if I’m having an unusually painful flare, but generally I can stick to the…

Not all spider stories have a happy ending. I was a committed rescuer until my husband pointed out that the cute little baby spiders I was gently relocating outside were brown recluses. I then became an equally committed assassin. I still shudder when I think about the nest we uncovered in our attic.

So true. I had multiple experiences and learned fairly recently that my sister did too. That made me so sad, especially when I discovered we had abusers in common. The thought that I could have somehow saved her from that fate is torturous, but I didn’t know it was happening to her at the time.

I was abused at a young age too, and it was all I knew—it was my normal. When I discovered that not every little girl lived my life, the emotion I remember feeling most acutely was shame. I was convinced the abuse was my fault for one overriding reason: It felt good.

Delusion is the operative word here. There are times I’ll wander over to some of the uber-conservative websites to take a gander at the insanity. I also want to be sure my opinions are based on more than information gleaned from the liberal websites I frequent (unlike many conservatives, who live and die by what they…

No, no, no, no...oh my god, if my mother had asked me to touch my grandfather in any way, my freakout would have been epic.

Exactly. I think closure is way overrated. My grandfather’s funeral wasn’t open casket, but the funeral home director invited the family to view him privately before the service. I had no intention of looking. He was the best, most amazing person I’ve ever known and I preferred to remember him as he had been. My…

You just described what happens to me at work just about every day. I received client revisions this morning that included changes to capitalization along with a note saying the very words you mentioned: “I know capping this is technically wrong, but I just like the way it looks.” They hire us (ostensibly) to…

I stole it too but can’t remember where I first heard it. It pops into my head every time Cruz speaks.

According to Cruz’s assessment of the conversation, it was all about “religious liberty.” Way to skew reality to fit your fucked-up agenda. His responses to Page had nothing to do with his religious persecution complex, rampant homophobia and general intolerance, of course.

The disconnect is simply astounding. I was unfriended by a family member who was railing against raising the minimum wage. I asked one simple question: So you don’t want to pay people a fair wage, but you also don’t want anyone to receive government assistance. Can you see how those two things contradict each other?

Jumping on the psoriasis-is-no-joke bandwagon here. During my worst outbreak, mothers actually pulled their children away from me in the grocery store. It was hideously disfiguring so I didn’t blame them, but it was still very psychologically damaging. It wreaked havoc with my self-esteem and confidence.

My Facebook page is teeming with that woman. I’m not sure how I ended up with so many Republican friends and family, but I see this shit about Trump all day, every day, and it’s escalating. Support for Ben Carson seems to be ramping up too.

When my married brother broke off an extramarital affair, his girlfriend took to Facebook to accuse him of cheating on her...with his WIFE. So yeah, that thought process definitely exists, as inexplicable as it seems.

Off topic, but your comment reminded me of the time I walked into my six-year-old sister’s bedroom after she had gotten in trouble to find her straddling the window sill. She said dramatically, “Don’t come any closer or I’ll jump!” I told her to go ahead, since the window was approximately two feet off the ground. Ah,…