Eh, he's just your garden variety douchey 20 yr old. Nothing to see here.

I'm an adoptive mom. When my kid was going through issues you know what I was doing? I was looking in to temporary residential care or other programs to help treat my child, not removing her from the family. My DHS was supportive, they know her behavior warranted the discussion. Thankfully we found counseling and…

I just want to be sure I'm following this.

Disgraceful, disgusting, craven, vile "do as I say not as I do" fair weather Christians. I hope they both rot in the foulest Hell imaginable.

Okay, as an adoptee, I am boiling with rage. Children are not ugly vases that you fucking regift. I hope this shitstorm drowns every adult involved in it.

That seems to be the case with the Christian families "rehoming" their internationally adopted children featured in the Reuters story from last year. But these people adopted from the state, and in order to do so, were specifically screened and trained by the state as foster parents to have these girls placed into…

The trouble with christian values: they never outlast ones' ability to embody them.

To be fair, he's a Democratic state legislator, so it's possible he's weak and pathetic and useless and also incredibly corrupt.

His kinks actually sound so boring and commonplace that they border on stereotype, really.

You know what, though? That's an ideal sub right there. Subs who want to be financially dominated, please come see LadyCoffeeSoul. Thank you.

I wish I even had the *option* of being financially dominated. That's like, the most first world kink, right?

Yeah, my Dad lives in a small town, like 363 people, and he won't keep his money in a local bank because he says the tellers are all gossips and everybody in town will know your bank balance. Same at the Post Office.

I read somewhere that people who don't participate in workplace gossip and just focus on work are more likely to be the victim of bullying.

I worked at a family-run business (not an office, though, a grocery store) and it was the gossipiest place I've ever worked. The second you said anything someone would haul off and tell everyone else. I tested people this way, by saying outrageous things and waiting to see who repeated it back to me. So I've learned:…

I think gossip bonding is somewhat common, and actually I can think of one situation where a co-worker hurt her career by refusing to partake. If any gossip came up around her, she would always say, "I prefer not to discuss others; I would rather we not gossip" or something similar. Which was very lovely and…