Housing and education are two of the most important aspects of any legitimate anti-poverty program. Of course, leave it to the most craven Republican administration in decades to nominate completely unqualified people for those positions, and for the most cravenly Republican Congress to push them through.

Girl preach it. As I say, I’ve always been pro-choice, but being pregnant (34 weeks!) has made me even more adamantly so. Hell, they really ought to stay in longer than 40 weeks, but with us being bipedal their heads can’t get any bigger and still come out of our birth canals. Until very recently Fetus Is A Construct…

Every time a scalper loses money on tickets, and angel gets its wings. And every time Trump is ignored by someone, the world becomes a little brighter.

It’s not that I am not sympathetic to people who advocate on behalf of a full prohibition of spanking. I myself don’t like spanking. I don’t think it’s particularly helpful or healthy behavior. But I also don’t think it’s particularly harmful, presuming the parent shows restraint both in terms of the severity and…

Since all children are not the same, how about you parent your children the way the works best for you and let other people do the same? As long as what’s being done isn’t abuse, it’s done for the right reasons, and it’s not done out of anger, I don’t see a problem with it. You might, and you are free to do what you…

If your young child has run into the road for the fifth time, after you’ve pulled him out of the street, distracted him with an activity or toy, calmly explained to him why he shouldn’t do that, more firmly talked to him, etc., a firm smack on the behind can be the wake-up call that might just work. Not beating him…

Um...the list of normal things parents do with/to their children (and against their children’s will) that would be considered assault if you did it to an adult is pretty long. I mean, I had to force my 10-year old son to brush his teeth the other day. If I had done that to an unwilling grown-up or to somebody else’s…

I hope every single person who is happy about this bankrupts over medical bills and I hope it’s because of their children. I hope they have to decide whether to save their child or their house. I mean it.

i’m an autistic adult and i’m not offending by gilbertkittens words. the older the parent/s, the more likely their children will end up autistic. this is known and study after study is showing it to be true. trump was 60 something when barron was conceived--that means there were increased chances that barron would be…

bullshit. you spelled all that correctly.

Anyone else with older mamas out there/older mamas themselves? I hate seeing Janet getting shit for having a baby late in life. My mom was 45, almost 46 when I was born, both of us healthy and happy. (Unsurprisngly, I’m an only- neither of my parents thought they’d have children, but then they met each other!) I’ll…

This situation sucks, but the notion that all the Google/Facebook/whatever employees are all careless millionaires is patently false.

Blame tech companies all you want. This is a symptom of a larger Californian problem that is 30-40+ years in the making. We did this to ourselves.

After the last year or so, I’m way more defensive of Hillary Clinton than I am about my own mom. Like, if someone said something shitty about my mom, I’d be like “lol what the fuck is your problem, my mom’s the best” but if someone says something shitty about Hillary, I’m like “YOU WANNA FUCKIN’ GO, ASSHOLE?”

Do you know how hard it is to spend a third of your life in an environment that hostile? I wouldn’t call it short sightedness, I’d call it exhaustion. I have a friend who works at planned parenthood and that was tiring even under the Obama administration.

We didn’t deserve the Obama’s.

Our Dad, Mom, and Uncle (Obama, Clinton, and Biden, respectively) should be so fucking disappointed with us kids right now. We didn’t want to listen, we knew better that running off with that high school dropout meth addict Trump wouldn’t be so bad; we could turn him around and make him a decent man. Surely if he saw…

Who says they want to intergrate? Why do you assume they want to be part of Western society? A solid % of European Muslims (who differ greatly in this respect to US Muslims) hate Western society and want to live in enclaves that maintain their culture.

Yeah, I’ve eaten at Comet Ping Pong many times and had intended to go eat there again to support it. I don’t think I can anymore, and I kind of think this is going to be it for the restaurant. It’ll go out of business pretty soon because of this.

I’m also a woman working for a tech start-up (more of a re-boot, really) who works in ops/systems. The amount of time that’s been taken from me to schedule meetings for my boss (not my job) or take notes in a meeting (not my job) or pick up lunch (not my job) is astounding. I end up working longer hours to accommodate…