I’m from WA, and we vote entirely by mail, with marked bubble near text. Ballots are actually SUPPOSED to be marked in pen, and every ballot comes with instructions at the top showing how you indicate a change if you marked the wrong candidate. Bubbles are right by names, easy to see, and marking 2 candidates in the…

If y’all have a Michael’s nearby, I highly recommend them. We have a Hobby Lobby right next door to a Michael’s, and when they moved in, people predicted the Michael’s would be gone in a year. Then Hobby Lobby started in with its bullshit about forcing its values on the employees, and a decade later... Michael’s is…

THIS. Exactly this. I can’t even imagine trying to carry a gun in my walker or the backpack I use when I’m in my wheelchair, then asking a rapist (or mugger) to ‘please wait a minute’ while I go through the steps necessary to get at it. Jesus. This is just fucking insane.

Goessling argued that the “right to use a handgun or firearm for self-defense is especially important to women, the elderly and the physically disabled.”

I was in the same boat as you. Water broke at 32 weeks, hospital admitted me and put me on strict bed rest, then contractions started a few days later. Kidlet and I were both going into distress after 12 hours, so they stopped labor (THAT was a fun drug) and took me in for an emergency C-section. Didn’t learn until…

Don’t forget his hilarious turn as a phony psychic on Leverage! I love his older roles, where he really branched out to show off his character acting skills. He deserved so much better than this.

I’d love to see that become a running gag, where Janet decides that she is now so different from the other Janets that she needs her own name, but she doesn’t know which one she wants, so she keeps changing it, leading to a bunch of ‘that’s not my name’ bits throughout the season.

Pretty sure that’s the first rule of ANY diet, tbh. But I may have to start ‘recommending’ keto to the asshats at the gym that feel free to tell me allllll about their new wonder diet that I just HAVE to try, if only so they’ll get keto crotch in the future!

I’m for the puppers, myself. It’s incredibly easy to buy one’s way onto the team - a few tasty treats, some squeaky toys, and a place on the bed gets you lifetime membership.

I’m the same way. Absolutely love flying, but freeze up anytime I’m more than about 5 feet off the ground. I think it has to do with the enclosure of the plane vs the sure sense that, if I’m standing somewhere high up, I’m going to fall to my death at any second.

What I think she, and most people who are violently against a UBI, miss is that yes, people DO want to work. I’m on disability, and I’d kill to go back to my job. Losing that sense of being useful (and finding new ways to get it instead) has been one of the most challenging adjustments I’ve had to make. The thing that…

God, yes! I still cringe when Jingle Bell Rock and All I Want For Christmas is You, more than 20 years after my retail-from-hell job.

So very, very true! My hip and back pain have been undiagnosed for a good four years now (they keep trying labels and then discarding them when tests come back without expected results) and I swear, there have been times where I’ve thought to myself ‘PLEASE just let them find something. I don’t give a shit if it’s…

Talk to your dr about moving your visits to every other month. I’m in the same boat as you, and when my Medicare kicked in this year and I ended up with a $50 copay for the pain dr, I explained to her that I just couldn’t afford to come out every month. She gave me to scripts, one that was dated for the following…

Do you have kids? If so, do you/have you encouraged them to know what’s going on in the world? Kidlet was reading the paper every day by the time he was 10. It started as part of his school curriculum, then kept going when he discovered he was interested in politics and news. Now, he heard some liberal views in the…

Bear in mind, when you see someone fat with a walker or on a motorized cart, you don’t have any way of knowing WHY they’re using those devices. I have hip and back problems, and as one doctor said, ‘they’d be there even if you were 100lbs’. Sure, the weight doesn’t help, but it’s the actual issue that’s made me unable…

I’m right there with you! I spent YEARS ignoring pain and stiffness in my hips, knees, and back, using all the ‘play through the pain’ shit that had been foisted off on me through my years of sports when I was younger. It ended with me having to stop working at 40, since I could no longer sit up for more than 2-3…

You’re not alone, Kate! I do the whole ‘scraping the surface’ thing with pints of ice cream. It makes the decadent treat last longer and allows me to really savor it.

This. Exactly this. If a doctor told me that eating 2 bananas a day and reciting the alphabet backwards would fix my hips and back, then I’d buy stock in Dole and start reciting. But like you, no diagnosis or fix, just pills. (I’d love to give the CBD a try, but price points put it out of reach for me as a regular…

Absolutely! My son used to laugh at how I picked up multiple packs of toilet paper every time they were on sale, to the point that there was basically a stack of them in the closet. But then I had to medically retire and there was no money coming in for several months while I walked through the disability process.…