They would certainly/sadly try their damnedest. I like to believe that the separation of church and state would prevent them in the long run, but I dunno. I have recently lost a lot of faith in the system.

I cannot agree more on all counts. Hardcore baptists don't believe in drinking booze, but healthcare still covers stomach pumpings and liver failure. I would personally prefer that my taxes pay for education and infrastructure instead of the biggest military on the goddamned planet, but them's the breaks.

Shit, that totally slipped my mind while I was blacking out (cause of trauma: rage. Coverage: debatable, as it might be against the religion of my employer. I guess we'll have to go to court).

Yep, that's exactly the problem. If they sign the paper, then they're giving someone else permission to provide birth control, to which they morally object. There was a group of nuns in Colorado who did the same thing last year. It's not about the actual money dedicated to BC, but rather the fact that the Catholic…

God fucking dammit. SINGLE PAYER SYSTEM. Down with employer-provided healthcare! Boo! Hiss! This makes me so goddamned mad, I cannot effectively communicate, and I'm sorry.

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no problem! There is lots of geological and archaeological cool stuff through there too! And the red rocks of Sedona, monument valley, and the Grand Canyon if you feel like straying from Route 66 a bit. But seriously, eat at the Turquoise Room because it's amazing.

It took me a bit to warm up to it, but after I ditched my ex I realized he was kind of a party pooper about a lot of things. At Christmas last year, my sister even gave my parents critters so they could get in on the fun, and left me out because she knew I was t into it. It made me feel bad, but also like an asshole,…

Right!? I felt extremely foolish because I am in the process of figuring out how to paper one of my living room walls...I just hope that accent walls aren't so gauche in Europe, and the wide availability of truly astoundingly loud wallpaper suggests to me that they're not. I mean, people can't put that shit over a…

I purged my closet at the end of college and again last year, and I really regret some of the things that I got rid of, like my hot topic miniskirt from high school that constantly caused me to be sent to the office. Sad face :( I have moved around a lot (like, internationally), which has caused these purges, but I…

oh my god, I fell down the rabbit hole of similar articles. I was either groaning or laughing hysterically while doing so, because who the fuck do these people think I am, and how much money, exactly, do they think I make? Truly ridiculous.

Ugh, I have a Neutragena scrub withy them that I looooove, but the beads really do gunk up the drains. I feel like it's the only face wash that's really made me happy in ages, but it is no longer available in my country probably for this exact reason. When I realized that the drugstores weren't stocking it anymore, I…

Oh man, Route 66 is really fun. It also runs alongside I-40 for vast stretches, so there are lots of options for driving until you're tired and then getting a room (it's a huge truck route). Just remember that those hotels can be more than an hour apart, sometimes! I love the nothingness of the west.

...my sister and her husband do this. At first I was like, "that's weird as fuck" and would not engage. Then I realized that it's part of how they communicate, and now I say hi to the creatures when they peek into the frame on skype (i.e. I took that huge stick out of my ass). I love those crazy kids.

That seriously sounds like my worst nightmare. Poor dudes. Baby fairs should not exist.

couples where one partner isn't exhausted and resentful are more than likely having more sex with each other.

Husband's response to headline: "Whaaaaaaaaaaaat?"

Oh, sweet merciful God, you guys are brave as shit for going to a wedding fair.

I take your point, but have you ever actually washed clothes by hand? It's fucking balls, especially if those clothes are actually dirty. I have done so. It is terrible. My mother in law has gone long periods of her life without a washing machine, and she cried when hers broke last year, and then cried again when we…

Hell, my mom grew up in the Midwest in the sixties and seventies, and they still had a manual washer with a cranky water squeeze thing until she was in high school, if I am remembering correctly. Hung up the clothes outside to dry, no matter how cold it was, too, as they didn't have a basement until her parents built…