I didn‘t, but my mom did. She was one of thirteen kids, and she was the fourth oldest (and second eldest girl). She was pretty much on her own at age five and helping raise her siblings (my grandparents were old school Catholic and grandpa worked while grandma stayed home and reared children.) They obviously cared a…

As the child of a parent who has thirteen siblings (somehow ridiculously close-knit), I can confirm this. It also led to my grandma having two mental breakdowns.

I thank god I knew the words to “Enter Sandman”. (Probably one of my favorite Du Jour member lines. I love this movie.)

“When everyone knows I shaved into a soul patch for the ‘Don’t Tell Your Papa’ video.”

Totally unrelated,  but is that picture from that terrible Zelda CD-i game?! I applaud you, good sir. 

They’ve actually done some studies that show when you use more passive speech when talking about things like this, people tend to place blame on the victim more often, but when you name the abuser (i.e. “Joe drugged Jane’s drink, and then Joe raped Jane.”) and are more active about voicing the person’s name, people…

Exactly! This was my line of thought and my experience. What seems to get amplified when alcohol is involved are aspects of your personality that you already possess. Everyone I am acquainted with who is an asshole while drunk is still an asshole when sober, just perhaps “less so” in a manner of speaking. Some just…

Thank you! I truly appreciate any and all info I can get! ^ - ^

On the South Park DVDs, Matt and Trey do “commentary minis” during the beginning of the episodes. They talk for maybe five minutes, but the commentary for the episode where the boys have a sled race against the girls on “Phil Collins Hill” is great. They say they created that specifically because they were pissed Phil…

This is a thing that confuses me in the discourse about universal health care. People talk/act like the private sector would be completely gone, but to my knowledge, that’s NOT true, even for countries that DO offer universal healthcare. It’s my understanding that people still have an option to pick up private…

The podcast Throughline just did an episode called “She Got Next” about Margaret Chase Smith, Shirley Chisholm, and Pat Schroeder all running for president. It’s very interesting, and if I recall, the same sort of mindset existed in regards to Pat Schroeder (if someone else listened and remembers exactly who, please…

YES! I am always flabbergasted that Ron didn’t need years of therapy to deal with that horrific realization.

The idea that death somehow redeems a person is mind-boggling to me. The person dying doesn’t negate every shitty thing they ever did.

I’m just popping in to say thank you for this. I can only hope and wish it comes to fruition.

I am not fully literate in the way of trial law, so perhaps someone can explain it in more detail to me. But HOW in the world are they allowed to fucking BLOCK witnesses and evidence for something as big as this? I feel like that SHOULD be illegal. For something so important, EVERYTHING should be presented.

Is it just me, or does his wife/girlfriend look like Melania? It’s probably just me. Or that the picture is too small, and I’m too lazy to zoom in. Nobody wants to zoom in on Don Jr.

Was this man Charles Manson?

Thank you! And that’s exactly how I feel. There’s no winning if you’re an addict because everyone just demonizes you. I’m sorry your girlfriend went through that. It’s incredibly tough to watch someone be addicted. The friend I spoke of above struggled for many years before sobriety was something he embraced and took…

Thank you! While I myself have not done more than drink alcohol and very, very rarely smoke weed, addiction is something close to my heart, and I think we do not do enough to help anyone who is struggling. It’s rough to dig deep and answer difficult questions about how best to help those who are struggling — or those…

No kidding. The thing, too, in my opinion is that the stigma needs to come off of drug abusers / addicts — that they’re all evil incarnate, hellbent on dragging as many people down as possible and stealing, mugging and killing as necessary along the way. I have friends who are/were recreational users and friends who…