Speaking as a man, I don’t think the matress-carrying was discriminatory against men. Why, you could say that #NotAllMen were the target, but only one specific man was.

RIGHT? I will never, never ever understand the mommy martyrdom pressure in the US. I suspect it’s related to bootstrappiness (everyone is an island and can do everything on their own, with no help from anyone, with just hard work and elbow grease, and if you get a little bit tired or need a break, you’re a failure who…

Beyonce ain’t got a thing to apologize for.

Yeah, but legalization really cuts down on crime surrounding it. Prohibition was big business with big organized crime. That declined when prohibition was over.

While that’s certainly true, bootlegging today involves an absolutely tiny fraction of the murders that occurred during bootlegging’s heydey of Prohibition. I think it’s a little silly to say that legalization wouldn’t prevent murders like this. It certainly would. Just not 100%.

You would certainly have a lot less illegal drug trade of marijuana, hence the legal part, since the majority of consumers seeking marijuana will use the easiest source of it. The least risky and easiest source in a legal marijuana system would be the legal option.

Absolutely. Just last week in my neighborhood, a dispute over a few stills led to a gun battle between the Crips and some of Al Capone’s boys.

Today is my first day back at work after maternity leave and everyone is asking if I’m okay and if I’ve cried and I want yell, “FREEDOM IS MINE, AT LAST,” at all of them but I feel like that would make me seem like a bad mom. Newborns are BORING, no matter how adorable they are! I got to eat my breakfast with two…

Man, more power to any new mom who can get an hour or two to herself (or out with her husband, girlfriends, etc.). You suddenly feel like everything you have belongs to a tiny, adorable, demanding creature. A brief respite to wear clean clothes and engage with adults can help keep you sane.

“If we take care of morality,” David Brumbaugh, a Republican Representative in Oklahoma’s House , said during deliberations, “God will take care of the economy.”

I am, occasionally, suprised that capes have not made a come back. Just think of how awesome we would all look leaving a place when we’re in a hurry.

THAT IS NOT HOW YOU FRIEND

In Taft, you’re correct; in Silicon Valley, that’s poverty line dollars, there...

Dude. The largest district in my county (Sonoma) tops out at $89k per year and that is after 25 years, a BA/BS, an MA AND an additional 75 units of continuing education (and if we want units to count, we have to pay for them. It cannot be district funded professional development. I easily spend $1000+ a year on…

My mom was a teacher for a long time in an affluent school district. Once one of these kids who’s never heard the word “no” accused her of hitting him because she wouldn’t tolerate his bullshit. The union stood behind her until supported her she was proven innocent. Without the teacher’s union that little rich brat…

So you’re basing your argument on the theory that a living wage in California is $28,000, and a living wage in Ohio is $20,000. Does that make sense to you? You think it only costs $8,000 more a year to live in Los Angeles than Columbus?

I’m 100% with the unions on this one. Unions provide teachers with due process and protections. The “tenure makes teachers lazy” bullshit is exactly that: bullshit. This is just another right wing attack on public education.

It is in California, where real estate developers have gamed the system to the point where in most areas $90,000 is the bare minimum for a “liveable, human life”.

You have swallowed the Kool-Aid that the enemies of public education prepared for you. The only thing that tenure does for teachers is to give them due process and the right to offer a defense when an administrator decides that it is time to fire them and hire a less expensive brand new teacher. New teachers start at…