This is why I also believe areas with public transit are saner, more tolerant, more enlightened places. I’ve lived in a few regions of the US, and currently live in OC California where there is very little public transportation. Other than some beach shuttles I haven’t used any. This is a wealthy county mixed with…

My siblings and I are home schooled. Three of my siblings have speech issues, and our public school’s speech therapy class has made an amazing difference for all of them. My family couldn’t afford speech therapy, so the school was an invaluable resource.

The adage “When you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” applies here. When you’re an armed constable, everything looks like an armed conflict.

Change the color of the driver and the story probably takes a very different turn.

My husband and I are both dual citizens so we have legit options as opposed to the average internet blusterer and the answer is still nope

There’s still too many people who don’t have the option of leaving. I want to stay and try to help fix this shit before I give up.

I just want to shout out to Planned Parenthood for making my abortion decision as painless as possible.

As a mom of a daughter now, I often think about the day I had an abortion and they no way made me feel uncomfortable about my decision. They identified it as cells, and not as a person. They comforted me, and…

C’est vrai.

I feel proud that I live in an enlightened country that would never have anything to do with an old rich man who possesses no regard for the rights of women and.......

“a million fat women.” - A Million and a HALF fat women you stupid, pathetic moronic, fucktard. And that’s just on THIS continent.

I think living the rest of his days in a max security prison is a more fitting punishment than death. Even the victims’ families didn’t want Roof to get the death penalty.

The man is going to live out the rest of is days on Death Row. The chances of him seeing the executioner is probably less than 50% (much less, I imagine). However, I’d rather he rot under the jail for life as a lesson to other white nationalists rather than to die as a martyr to some incredibly stupid cause.

A few weeks ago I pulled up at a red light and there were a bunch of women on the corner with tape and giant signs featuring dead feti. Sounds better than fetuses. Of course they were fully formed babies and probably the result of a devastating later loss, but you know - semantics. This was across from the mall, a…

This also touches on another aspect I couldn’t really get into in the article because it’s much more cultural than religious, but many cultures value an equivalent exchange of gifts. Namely, if I give you a $20 gift, you’re required (or at least very strongly encouraged to the point of being shamed if you don’t) to…

Here’s something else I wouldn’t have thought of - in some cultures, gifts are kind of... taboo? I don’t really know how to explain except with the example I have. A coworker of mine is from Somalia, and apparently his culture doesn’t allow him to accept gifts. I don’t know if that’s a religious thing or just a…

Eucalyptus has been quite a problem in southern cal the past few years. The years long drought has weakened roots, and then sudden heavy rains soften the soil, leading to falling trees. A woman was killed in her convertible when a eucalyptus fell on her waiting for a light in Costa Mesa in 2011. A lot of cities are…

As an Australian I can tell you that we don’t call them “widow makers” for nothing.

They’re not being required to report though, which is good, or hopefully to intervene at all if they’re worried it would alienate the client. It sounds like it could set a stylist up to offer concrete suggestions in addition to an ear - in your example, more like “wow, I’m so sorry you’re going through that, I happen…