I’ve been sober since 2004 and it’s been amazing for me. I loved alcohol, my favorites were beer and vodka. At the end, when I was buying tall boy Budweisers from a bodega after having been to rehab twice, it was clear I was in a huge downward spiral. I lost friends, relationships, and jobs. I almost lost my car and I…

Being in recovery is hard. Addiction is a disease for many people, and for others, addictive behaviors are trying to fill some sort of hole left by trauma. It makes sense that one person would replace a substance addiction with something else, especially if you’re learning how to live in the world without the crutch…

Loved this. I quit drinking a few weeks before the start of the pandemic which makes it...checks watch...just over 3 years. My drinking wasn’t out of control when comparing it to the narrative we’ve been fed around what qualifies as worth quitting over but it certainly was gray area and as a daughter of an alcoholic…

thomas would make himself three-fifths of a person if he could

Just my jaundiced eye POV: Black people only win Oscars when portraying characters within comforting stereotypical boxes: The Magical Negro, Sambo, Stepin Fetchit, The Noble Savage, Maids, Slaves, pimps/prostitutes, Bad Parents, Dirty Cops. You get the drift. A woman playing a queen dealing with extreme grief that…

“Honestly, I find myself wondering why the hell we’re still fighting over straight cis men (arguably the most unimpressive of our species) in the year 2023"

“After that evening, Amelia says she continued to see Tate for a few months, because she was in denial about the reality of what had happened and didn’t want to feel like a victim.“If I go and see him again, and I want it this time, then I’m not being degraded, then it’s not the R word [rape],’””

Pass! It’s been in an accident. A pretty bad one, too. Severe enough that it knocked the steering wheel over to the passenger side!

Absolutely. It’s the hypocrisy from these people that get me. And the amount of money they have leeched from followers is disgusting. They are billionaires and it’s simply because they demand that followers provide them with 10%+ of their salary with each pay. Prosperity doctrine. They only help themselves and each…

Some of the worst evils are those done in the name of Christ. These are people who, if Christ came back today, would absolutely crucify him as a warning to others for daring to question the establishment.

Brian Houston, and his father and family and that cult they formed, are scum. Absolute scum.

Yes, but it needs a better slogan. 

I think that’s what they are saying. “Defund the Police” was a terrible catchphrase that never did justice (no pun intended) to what was actually being proposed. It was always about diversifying our investments in social outreach beyond (and in appropriate cases, instead of) police, but poor marketing on our part made…

That’s exactly what defunding the police actually means.

Once again for the people in the back

4. Lots of sarcasm.

First, did Stanford ever ask what this football player was doing in public? Why wasn’t he home studying or in class? If he’d been where he was supposed to be, instead of out with his friends, he wouldn’t have gotten coffee spilled on him. Assaults never happen at home or in class, and he should have known that.

This is the most verbose, well-though-out, and obnoxious example of blaming the victim I’ve ever seen. Bravo.

It’s nice you can so fully see her side and how she was thinking in those tremendous moments of despair. Thanks for letting us all know.

From the same campus that brought you Brock Turner comes this absolute bullshit.