I have family that works on oil rigs offshore and in the Eagle Ford shale and despite the fact that they work with dangerous equipment that can kill people, they get the no-questions-asked treatment. History of family violence? Doesn't matter. Chronic alcoholic? Doesn't matter. I actually read an article in an…

Child of a drug addict here. Went a few days without food because mom spent all her money on Vicodin, so I ate at my boyfriend's house. If the option were between that and foster care, I would have opted to have a drug addicted mom and go without regular meals than be sold into sex slavery.

I don't think they did the breaking news segment across the US when it happened, which might have insulated most people my age from the disaster. I was in Houston watching Saturday morning cartoons when it broke to a special report saying that the Colombia was disintegrating over portions of East Texas and for people…

When I was in American history class in high school circa 2005, our American history textbook was from 1991.

I had a cop grab her weapon at a pharmacy when I reached into my bag to get my laptop so I could run statistical tests for my work. Apparently waiting at a pharmacy to pick up a prescription for strep throat while brown makes you a suspect. Coughing + runny nose + red eyes + waiting at a pharmacy = violent criminal.

What does health care have anything to do with social media platforms? There are protections for privacy in health care, zip for a public network like Twitter.

As a professor you're insulated from the actual abilities that will help people succeed in the world today. The real world of employment doesn't have tenure and you don't make your own hours or spend most of your time by yourself writing articles. You don't succeed in real world, common professions with any of the…

Everyone I know my age who is in a successful marriage started from a friendship that did a one night stand followed by marriage several years later. We're waiting longer to get married but we make sure we know each other for years before we cross that line.

In at-will states and with a large unemployed (and educated) workforce that's not exactly true.

We're just doing what your mom wanted to do but was unable to.

No, it isn't. A life doesn't begin when the splash of semen hits the cervix because the sperm doesn't travel to the egg at the speed of light.

I'll believe corporations are people with convictions when they get executed for murder rather than getting a fine for $10,000.

I'm going to safely make an assumption that you're 1. not a person of color, especially Mexican-American; 2. not working class; 3. not from Texas, especially not the valley.

"She" being a Mexican-American woman in the Valley who is subject to the whims of her Mexican-American husband who doesn't want to wear a condom and may beat her if she insists on a condom. Plus add residency issues and she won't go to the police because of language, legal, and cultural barriers.

Shit, the presidential debates set up a buffer zone where Ralph Nader couldn't get within half a mile of the place and set up a press conference on why he was being excluded without being arrested.

If you think any of us have the time to dox a troll out of the healthcare field you're really wrong.

Those Republicans put that oil in the ground and drilled that first fracking well in the Eagle Ford shale in February 2008 that floated the economy.

If abortion is murder, then it is first degree murder in Texas. The penalty for first degree murder in Texas is the death penalty. They never go so far as to say that women and doctors should be prosecuted for murder, but the banality of evil says they would be complicit with such a requirement.

Don't be stupid. These women are obtaining these death pills in pulgas in the Valley, and if they're getting them from pulgas they're probably Xicana. Xicano men see condoms as an affront to their masculinity and the more sons they have, the better. So women in these communities are marginalized by virtue of being…

I haven't had a problem with online harassment since I scared my creepy stalker ex off. Apparently if you post pictures of yourself on social media with a bevy of weapons ranging from Filipino execution swords to Zulu spears to shotguns people leave you alone. I also make it a point to talk about my trips to the…