When I was a kid in Atlanta I could see it was an F, but it took until I was a teenager that I could see it was a falcon.

I am 40, and transitively, your dyslexic son just pointed that out to me.

Because the Girl Scouts do things like accept trans members and let you not say “God” in the pledge (although it’s still there) and don’t have hangups about gay people. I’m not sure at the moment, but as recently as the late 90s you couldn’t be an atheist and be in BSA.

oh oh oh I am excited about Nikole Hannah-Jones. Her two-parter on This American Life is one of those “required listening” works - I was bawling through a big part of it, but there was so much good writing, so much good information. She has important work to do and I’m happy that this will help her!

Sesame Street also did a great program in about 2007 to help kids and parents cope when a parent was coming back from a long deployment, sometimes with physical disabilities or serious PTSD (in the midst of the period in Iraq where some troops were barely getting a month between deployments).

It’s because five years ago, they had to protect themselves from Obama, but now Trump’s in charge and the Republicans have Congress and the uprising against the government has lost its appeal.

The Asian-Americans feel like they are being discriminated against because they aren’t always getting accepted into Ivy League schools with high test scores and gpa’s. It seems like they would be perfectly content with only Caucasians, Asians, and Asian- Americans being the only students admitted.

I knew someone who was in an accident in a PT Cruiser where the car was left looking like a wad of metal, except you could see where the passenger area was protected. The doctors said it was a miracle she wasn’t killed given the speed with which the other driver hit her and sent her careening off the highway. So, they…

I mean, it’s not weird if after I leave work I go get this as a tattoo immediately, right?

I can actually see that in this article - the videos are of normal surgery, not weird dancing in the OR shit wtf.

My husband is former active duty, now reserves, and saaaame. If it’s someone who served at some point, it’s fine, but so often it isn’t - it’s someone who doesn’t know what to say when they learn that someone standing in front of them is actually in the military (sidenote: perk about living in DC area is this is a…

My daughter’s name starts with a Q and she loves cats and the Ramona Quimby Q is my if-I-ever-get-a-tattoo

I loved the show! I really did! It was an incredible comfort to me when I was 26 and going through a painful breakup where my boyfriend of three years started dating a 19 year old (this guy was the least likely candidate for that bs) and my roommate let me binge-watch her DVDs. It was far from perfect, and a lot of it…

I would think it would take a particular type of person to want a third SATC movie.

(I’m not sure, but I think that commenter may have been making a joke at the expense of Trump supporters and their intellect.)

that audience that has been so vocal in wanting another movie

I read that line and thought, “Stars! They’re just like us!”

1) We DO NOT have strict gun laws. They keep getting struck down by courts. The handgun ban was struck down by Heller v. DC. The ban on gun shops was struck down. Concealed carry is legal in Illinois.

The strict guns laws were struck down by SCOTUS 7 years ago

ALSO, ALSO, I think that Chicago gun law was struck down something like 7 years ago (it was the SCOTUS follow-up to Heller v. DC that said that the holding in Heller was also applicable to the States through the 14th Amendment).