Not only it’s costly. Food stamp recipients use drugs at lower rates than the rest of the population. So it costs a lot to catch the whole 10 people who receive stamps and use drugs. http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/0…

Measures like this will only hit the most vulnerable population on public assistance: poor children. Why should they be punished because their parents didn't pass a drug test? Additionally, the amount of people on public assistance is so much smaller than anyone actually realizes it's just going to be a major…

Never do get a satisfactory answer to this, but remind me again why drug addicts don’t deserve to eat food?

Really? So she’d get zero tip from you if she did a “bad” job? On a $9 manicure?

Good question. Figuratively, yes; literally, no.

I fucking love the idea of using Socratic Questioning in the style of cognitive-behavior therapy in sexting. I’m just gonna ask you questions until you reach the conclusion I’d like you to reach; it’s much more salient if you’re able to get there on your own.

This is what I’m struggling with doing right now. I’m going to occasionally get pedicures, and I would really rather get them in a reputable place where the workers are treated decently and get to keep their tips. But I’m having a hard time figuring out which places those are (besides the obvious indicators of $10…

I think the thing is that the people that Jia are talking about are making the whole thing about their ego (this is inconvenient to me, if this is true than I’m a bad person and that can’t be) and not taking responsibility for the way they contribute to this issue and changing their choices

As someone who spends a lot of time in Jefferson City, and was down there yesterday fighting once again for Medicaid expansion, I can tell you that this couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. Although this has been one of the worst sessions in our state’s history in terms of sticking it to the citizens of Missouri…

Wait - so this one, albeit massive, douchewaffle behaves inappropriately with an intern and that’s it, no more internship program? What about other students who might be seeking legislative experience? This feels like a “our young people won’t be safe in the gubmt building” sort of response to me. Or even worse, “we…

Every time I read articles like this, the Disney song “Tale as Old as Time” plays in my head.

“ There has never been a time when an elected official is praised for his “family values” that it does not come back to bite him in the worst way possible. Remember this, family values Republicans. Learn it well. For once. “

ACK WHITE PEOPLE THIS IS THE ONLY REASON YOU SHOULD FEEL SORRY FOR YOURSELVES

Let me tell you about what life is like as a fat sexworker. My job involves sharing photos of myself as a strong, sexy, sexual woman, in varying degrees of undress. It involves me setting a figure - a not inexpensive one, either - on what I feel access to my body is worth.

This, for a myriad of reasons, makes some men…

I think a lot of people do equate skinniness with happiness. They work and suffer and try and obsess so that they can get to a size or weight where they think ‘happiness’ lives. And some of them manage to do that. So they think they’ve ‘earned’ their happiness. They ‘earned’ that boyfriend (who would dump them in a…

When an author trolls his own blog, then I know I’m in the right place:)

Did anyone here ever opt out of the whole bridesmaids thing? I’ve been a bridesmaid a couple times (9 bridesmaids in one-TOO MANY BRIDESMAIDS) and the general consensus is that it sucks, everyone hates it, and it’s a complete burden.

Women can now go to a women’s college! This marks the end of the women’s college!

Or maybe that’s alarmist bullshit.

Yeah, look, this is a posed video. You didn’t just fish your phone out as fast as you could to start shooting. There is no goddamn excuse for it being in portrait mode.