I couldn’t have said it better myself. God, I hope we are wrong. If we spend all of our time waiting for these New Feudalists to die off and release their stranglehold on our society, and on the Earth as a whole, it will be too late to save the planet. Not to mention the wasted lives, the human suffering, and the…

This is such an awesome comment, albeit a very depressing one. My solace is the increased activism. The fact that constituents are making things uncomfortable for GOP congress people (I mean, they don’t really care, but it IS annoying for them.) The Indivisible people and everyone involved in that is also giving me…

Ok, this is depressing. I’m concerned you may be right, though. The Citizens United thing was a truly devastating development, and the voter suppression and gerrymandering that has followed may truly be the last undoing of representative government in these United States. The Supreme Court thing grows more…

It’s truly incredible to me how much hard evidence we have — across long periods of time! in multiple places! — as to how much more VASTLY effective (and less costly, particularly to lives) community policing is... And yet, NOPE. No more of that! Makes far too much sense, doesn’t allow room for nearly enough racism.

How ‘bout a bill that requires classes teaching police how to interact with kids?

Even Leona had a dog, and provided handsomely for him in her will.

Oh my! I just went down a rabbit hole because I’d never heard of this person (I was born in ‘88, so I was too young to appreciate this drama).

Wait, isn’t this guy Attorney General of the United States? Even if he’s convicted, it’s not justice. He’ll die in a few years anyway, and that innocent 27 year old had decades ahead of him.

And they’re like a minority in a minority among Jews!

Could have been worse, it could have been Walmart.

So very, very true! Kidlet never skipped a day of school (and swears he won’t, even now in college) because I told him, on his first day of junior high, that if he ever skipped, I WOULD find out and then I would show up at his school in the shortest, tightest, miniskirt and loudest, cheapest top I could find at the…

My husband has multiple plaid jackets and pairs of pj bottoms. I make a point of getting him the most lurid and clashing plaid bottoms I can find at Christmas (WALMART yo!). So far my best find is turquoise, bright orange and lime green. He always wears a plaid jacket and pj bottoms to walk the dog at night and…

I have a similar threat that works wonders: “If you don’t ________, I will come and find you at the Mall when you are a teenager, and run up to you and hug you and kiss you and tell you how adorable you are and ask to hang out.” He’s not even a teenager yet, and this still works every time!

Listen, when you’re a parent it is your job to be as embarrassing to your kid as humanly possible. That’s just science.

True story: Even 2-3 years AFTER Roe V Wade, evangelical christian magazines were pointing to biblical SUPPORT for abortion. this ended when Falwell made abortion a POLITICAL issue in order to get Catholics to stop voting with democrats

Same here. 1981,when I was scared and pregnant and could look up Abortion in the yellow pages and go to the clinic free of fear and harassment.

“Washington and defend his liberal special interest friends.”

Also, Obamacare was “rammed through” in more than a year (about 13 months) with, if I recall correctly, more than 50 hearings, 25 days of debate and acceptance of Republican amendments.

Jenn Culp (Too Much, Girl!) had a nice Fathers day post on the Establishment, and it made me notice something about my own dad. Similarly, he doesn’t say much about my personal appearance. No pressure to look a certain way, no tsks when I get weird (though he’s not a fan of the tattoos). I have no idea if this was a…