They’re so beautiful but so soft. For earrings, a necklace or a ring you only wear occasionally? Sure! For something which needs to withstand 24/7 use for 50+ years (one hopes) set into a ring? Alas.

Way too skinny.

That gigantic Congolese man has beautiful arms.

Clinton has also expressed general concern about the cost of higher education; an aide of hers generated minor excitement earlier this month when he mentioned “debt-free college” in an interview

I always cringe at the concept of a ‘useless’ degree. Its such a bullshit term, when you think about it. Fact of the matter is, all degrees have a use. All of them are necessary to break into certain fields. Some fields are booming, some are going bust, and there are varying degrees of competitiveness in every field.…

Or unions. While greatly diminished in size and power, a lot of the ones that remain will still train people in their trade for free.

We traded nice things for “the right to work” and cellphones that take pics and play music. That’s why.

No one fights more than Bernie. I mean, he gives zeros shits about saying something that might be unpopular if he believes it.

Why does it have to be a forgone conclusion that Hillary will be the nominee?

What a great, strange time to be a family pet.

At least among people I know (millenials), our parents are paying for expensive weddings because they’re the ones who insist on expensive weddings. I have two friends whose parents paid for the entire wedding, because the couple just wanted to have a courthouse marriage, and a low-key celebration potluck in their…

My mom is a full 10 years older than my MIL. My MIL has been pressuring me to have children since I was 20 - almost a full decade. She announced to my mother one year when we were all out to dinner that she started going to church again SOLELY to pray that our condoms break so we can give her grandchildren before she…

to be truthful: ambivalence, pregnancy phobia and a deep love of being irresponsible for hours on end may actually be the main players

Attention, parents of millennials (or tail-end gen x-ers as it were): nobody can effing afford anything-weddings, babies, rent, food... Help out with all those labor rights you worked on rolling back and then we can talk. Maybe. “Finally” got married to LT partner at 33, very low-key deal, and still have not produced…

She is a child. A child. Far from home, living with strangers, and whose grasp of English is still nebulous. The ones who need to be ashamed of themselves here are the American host family who was supposed to be looking after her but were instead blithely standing around in close proximity to the animal and ignoring…

I think people don’t often consider the impact their behavior has on the animal(s) in question. I often bring up “a fed bear is a dead bear” as an example. If a bear gets used to eating in campsites because you left your food there, it’s going to come back again. Eventually it becomes a problem bear, a hazard, and to…

Please, please, please keep your distance from bison. My partner sucks it up and becomes That Annoying Wyomingite all the time and scolds people at the park, because there is just so much idiocy on display around these animals. They are not tamed, they are huge, and they can move very, very quickly (which nobody seems…

While I totally understand what you’re saying (and I’m also only 41), I have found that “anger” does more damage to me than it does to them, or forwarding the cause. I tend to try and shift that anger to amusement, rebellion and mild derision.

That is exactly what my mother told me when I was an idiot teenager. Now I’m 38, she’s 70, and our combined disgust at the surges of anti-female legislation is enough to power a small town.
The woman who came before us must be so pissed, wherever they are.