I can’t speak for Jinni (and any rate, Jinni is amazing at speaking for herself anyway) but I’m a restaurant worker and as a whole, this industry doesn’t provide health care. And in the country, if your job doesn’t subsidize it, health care is prohibitively expensive

Nobody is free until everybody is free... I suppose that’s true. But do all the bad things mean I can’t appreciate all the good things? “All men are created equally”. As a nation, we have never fully lived up to that but even having that occur is slightly miraculous. So many people and families have come here with…

What’s so awful about this is there’s just no happy ending. I think letting the child pass is better than what his life would be if they managed to keep him alive but I’m not saying that’s an easy decision to have to make and I’m not sure that I would have the fortitude to make it if I were in their position.…

My taxes are now paying to actively disprove climate science.

Obviously, no one is obligated to forgive him just because he issued an apology but really, I think he responded in the appropriate way. He apologized with zero implication that he felt it excused him. That’s pretty nice in and of itself, considering the kind of excuse/victim blaming that usually gets released.

But the problem is, are the parents really doing what’s right for the child? Parents are given deference in questions of child welfare and they should. Parents are certainly MORE LIKELY to know what is best for their child. But they can’t know 100%. But more importantly, parents are human beings and human beings are…

I have all the sympathy in the world for how horrible and difficult and unfair this situation is for these parents but it is unimaginably cruel and selfish to that child for them to keep him alive in his condition.

I’d be more surprised if there was anywhere in Mississippi that HAD desegregated.

I become increasingly depressed about this country’s standing in the world every time I see one of these stories. I remember last year when Last Week Tonight did that story on Kadyrov in Chechnya and how, while being an absolute monster on civil rights, he is now a laughing stock to us. Trump is doing that as well.…

All they achieve by doing this kind of stuff is guaranteeing American cities won’t host international events.

The problem is that the unpleasantness of pugs doesn’t come through in photos like this. Those face flaps aren’t nearly as endearing in person and they do that awful body shimmy when they move and they make those awful grunting sounds like they’re choking... ugggh. Pugs are awful.

Do the fundies think separation of church and state means they can’t put crosses on private buildings? That didn’t look like a courthouse or anything that he was bolting that thing to.

I liked Girlboss. :(

I started to appreciate wine when I was in France last year but the problem for me is I just don’t like sweet things. Even the driest red is too sugary for me and I have a hard time getting past that to the taste.

It’s definitely not the same scale. Like I said, I’ve never feared for my life in police interaction and I know that basically, all black people do. But my experience with police, while never particularly aggressive, has been mostly uncomfortable. They won’t come to my window anymore. Last few times I was pulled over,…

It’s been like this my whole life though and I’m white. My friends and I have always been taught that it’s our job to placate the, apparently highly excitable, police officer so that we don’t get arrested for upsetting them. Perhaps that’s the white part. I was only ever afraid I’d get cuffed, perhaps worst case, a…

Is this confirmed Joss Whedon? Because none of that sounds like his work at all.

I liked Joy. :(

Bannon seems like the kind of guy that would discriminate against overweight women and then claim that he’s fine because “Men are supposed to be fat”... And drunk, probably.

They must be real proud, saving america from a lone teenage girl.