My son was born with a congenital heart defect. Nothing we did caused it. Nothing genetic caused it. Apparently, it wasn’t environmental. 5 different doctors explained to us, very patiently, that there was nothing that could have been done to prevent it, and nothing we did caused it. It’s just a crap roll of the dice.

Side note, I am your dog, and you shouldn’t use my name as your burner password.

Near the end of Paul Beatty’s excellent book, “The Sellout”, a black comedian hears the laughs of a lone white couple who has come to see his stand-up, performed in a donut shop in a poor black neighborhood in LA, and says to them, “This isn’t for you. This is our thing.”

And exactly WHY do you think this lousy plan was the best that they could do?Hmmm? You think it fell from the sky? The Democrats will give you bad food because its the best they can muster. The Republicans will laugh and kick you as you die. And say it was “God’s will”.

My adult child recently went to the emergency room with abdominal pain. She had to have her appendix removed and stay overnight. The total bill was $20,000. My wife is a teacher and her union has negotiated kick-ass insurance. The contractual amount was $6,000. The hospital is willing to perform those services for…

Stop it with this “I can’t afford healthcare” bullshit.

OT and I’m grey so no one will see this.

I am an atheist but I hope that there is a hell in situations like this, and I hope those fucking guards burn in it forever.

GET OUT.

Haunted kale.

How about the opposite? When I was a kid I had just started dated the man I’d end up marrying- I was 16? Anyway, we had a pool, and he’d be over a lot and he didn’t own a swimsuit. This annoyed my parents, particularly my mother, since buying to pool was a life goal of theirs (grew up poor) and everyone should enjoy…

+1 Iron Cross

If yer daddy was a member of a Nazi-affiliated group and yer affiliated with an antisemitic political party and ya wear that Nazi group’s medal on television and sign yer name in tribute to a Nazi group and that Nazi group sez yer a member and when yer asked whether yer a member of a Nazi group ya just say “No…

“The Energy Star program is an entirely voluntary program that the government spends a few million dollars every year to administer..”

My husband has a congenital heart issue that can cause him to go into atrial fib (irregular heart beat) — a condition usually reserved for much older people. About 6 years ago, he underwent a procedure that fixed the issue and of course, his parents and I did the waiting room thing. They put him under, installed a…

I watched a documentary about the criminalization of marijuana, and that’s pretty much precisely the whole point. The problem, as they saw it, was that it was literally a weed, so poor people, especially in the south (read: Black) and California (read: Mexicans) were able to procure and smoke it easily, and bring it…

As someone who has done All Of The Drugs and Drinks Too Much Alcohol I can say for 100% certainty that booze is way fucking worse than pot.

The laws have been pretty obvious since THC was labeled medically useless but Marinol (THC with a brand name and prescription) was labeled medically useful.

Given the republican nature of hate what you are, 10 to 1 says he has a drug problem and is thus compensating for it by going after drugs hard.

It’s used as an excuse to imprison black and brown and poor people to extract cheap labor from them. It’s not about public safety and never was.

It is 2017, we must stop litigating marijuana. The rank hypocrisy of a culture in which we are inundated with positive and affirming messages about alcohol and demonize every thing else is pure folly. Don’t like gay marriage? Don’t marry someone of the same gender. Don’t like marijuana? Don’t consume it. Problem…