I hate that people feel like a candidate should go and personally be gawked at by potential voters to effectively campaign. It is ridiculous that people need to be worked up into a mob frenzy by personal appearances rather than just fucking educating themselves on the issues, platforms, and records. Are people really…

Part (only part) of the problem is that people have a very distorted view of how much of the budget goes to foreign aid. I understand the inclination to say if we are borrowing money then we don’t have it to spend on outside interests since in my household budget if I have to borrow money from my uncle to pay my rent…

I won’t lie, I have toyed with the idea of a fallout shelter just in case. That thought just a year ago would have painted be a paranoid nut. Now...

What about eating fatty foods, or high sugar diets, or drug use, or using tanning beds? All of those things can cause health issues that the costs for are then spread to other health insurance consumers. I don’t necessarily disagree that that paying for the life choices of others is something I don’t want to do but a…

That makes it somewhat more plausible but I still say instances like this it is more of a not wanting to see something situation (and not unlikely that the wife was also abused.)

I am beyond side eying. There is NO WAY the father is not complicit in this. No way he doesn’t know about the padlocked, feces filled bathroom where a kid is being tortured to death in his house.

I know nothing about that case (but will be googling) but am inclined to call bullshit. You just don’t go into the basement for 24 years?

Every single Republican I know in real life is Republican for one of three, most often all three, reasons - abortion, the gays, guns. Where I am it stopped being about small government at least twenty years ago.

I have been both spanked and abused. There was a difference between the two. Neither served to correct my perceived infraction. While I don’t consider light spanking child abuse I don’t think it should be used, partly because it is ineffective, partly because it teaches violence is how to solve problems, partly…

I see this and think back to myself at twelve and the shit show my life was and how I could have so easily been this girl. I want to do more in my community to reach out to girls and help in any small way to eliminate such horrors. Time to overcome my tendency to isolate. Let’s get out there and do something. Anything.

 Beg to differ...

Ah yes, the emergency room,a place where, unless you are actively bleeding out, you sit at a little desk to the side to provide your insurance details or debit card. These people are delusional.

 Very large, nearly 100%, of the people I encounter in my daily East Texas life really do believe that. Uuuughhh.

Mine started January first. I am having surgery before tge end of the month. Hell I am trying to schedule every possible check up an procedure possible before the 31st.

And that makes me want to tear my hair out and run screaming through the streets.

I have insurance (via the exchange) for the first time in nearly six years. I am having surgery two weeks from today with a very real possibility of facing a cancer diagnosis. I went ahead and purchased an AFLAC cancer plan and an Aetna lump sum policy so I won’t be totally in the wind. It is infuriating that a bunch…

I am more in the I wouldn’t piss in him if he was in fire camp.

I hate that hurky jerky crap in both dance and horror movies.

Agree! My first thought was so we are just ignoring the appropriation in this thing? Even if I were Nike’s target customer and a fan of FKA Twigs this would bother me.

Feral pigs are a menace. They destroy property, destroy home gardens as well as commercial farm land, kill pets, and upset other wild animal habitats. The term innocent is more than a stretch.