This kills me every time.

This kills me every time.

Michael Schiavo was treated horribly and got the worst raw deal when the fucking congress intervened to collude with Terry’s parents’ denial and he was straight up demonized in the right wing press. It was monstrous how this whole thing was treated like a political football. I had to stop watching. There was something…

In the US justice system as it currently exists, that supposition is nowhere near as true as we’d all like to think.

And yet...I have a feeling he wouldn’t exactly have been the target had a man not been angry that his ex girlfriend had moved on.

Yes, but that’s not really the point. Her friend was killed because of her ex boyfriend's anger towards her decision to break off the relationship. This is a fear women face while dealing with controlling significant others. It is an unfortunately reality that we have to deal with.

Is it Justin Verlander? It totally sounds like it could be him.

Comments like these blithely assume that all people consider slavery inuversally terrible, and a deeply shameful part of American history, but this isn’t the reality at all. There are politicians who talk about the good that slavery did for black people and black families (!!!), and George Washington in particular is…

Our Jewish New Yorker friend runs one of our favorite bars here in Ontario. We thought it would be a nice gesture to bring him some really authentic, chewy New York style bagels our professional baker friend made as a treat. Still hot! He said “It’s more annoying than cute that you think these are bagels.”

My (native New Yorker Jewish) boyfriend calls the bagels my parents buy from the grocery store “circle bread”

Good Idea: Paid telecommuting options should be expanded for new parents (particularly women) so that employers cannot use an experience differential to justify a pay gap.

Footage from 52’

“What if I got my puppy from a breeder in Canada?” A small child asked in the crowd.

Exactly. Also, in the new cabs in NYC, the cameras cannot be turned off.

Some day this sillouhette is going to come back.

That one time you dressed for lunch to go to the met gala.

That one time you dressed for the met gala to go to lunch.

This is why whenever I need to get some food, I just go to the supermarket and hang out by the checkout. I get to be in close proximity to people who have food, which is the same as having it, yourself.

Woman Has Brain, Doesn’t Understand Dumbass Men