In my head the other giraffe is the nervous, pacing father who eventually has to go out (gently encouraged by April who really didn’t need that kind of energy in the room) and get some air and think about what this all means and how bringing this calf into the world really changes your priorities and who you are and…

Twitter wins:

That is wonderful! What an amazing gift to give your son! I love that your mother ‘tossed’ her names overboard on the way to America, she sounds like such an interesting person, thanks so much for sharing!

I honestly think Miller is a bigger problem than Bannon. Because, for some ungodly reason, that white supremacist pseudo-intellectual sits on policy and mainstream Republicans seem more comfortable with his thinly veiled white supremacy than Bannon’s. Everyone knows what Bannon is. Miller is the same kind of toxic,…

Yeah, it’s bizarre. I’m several years older than him and seriously ill to boot (and was never exactly a looker to begin with), and yet I’m pretty sure I still look younger than him. And it’s not even like it’s just the receding hairline - I have friends in their late 40s with much less hair than he has who still…

That describes most of his Cabinet. His EPA administrator hates the environment, his Energy Secretary wants to get rid of it, his Department of Education is against public schools, his HUD Secretary admitted a few days before his appointment that he was unqualified to be in the Cabinet, his Attorney General doesn’t…

There are plenty of aesthetically challenged people who are good at heart. And plenty of pretty people who are completely evil.

Uh, being ugly and being a terrible person are totally unrelated qualities.

It sounds like he’s been your dad’s bigoted doppelganger since he was 17! That counselor’s quote about listening to a 70-year-old, spot on. I knew kids like that in school, the ones who were born 45.... by the time they’re in high school, they are SO depressing to the rest of us....

When Ivanka called to request Miller’s help on women’s issues, he reportedly responded “...you mean like periods and stuff?”

Another commenter told me that Horace Mann was a famous educator in the 1800s, so I’m pretty sure it’s named after him (because they target educators and give them discounts). Which is a relief, for sure.

You know, that actually makes perfect sense, then. I’m not sure exactly what you’d call it, but I just got some mail from them the other day, and their letterhead says something to the effect of “providing insurance for our educators”. So I guess their main target customers are teachers, etc., and that would certainly…

Jesus, wtf is wrong with those people? Like, you’re not only teaching students (education, obviously, but also social skills and about life), but you are their damn authority figures. How you could do that to the people you’re supposed to be helping to learn and grow, and protect, just is totally beyond me. It’s an…

No, definitely not your responsibility! But—yeah, I agree that Rebelgirl’s arguments were different from yours and the one other trans person’s I read. I’m sorry, and you’re right, I shouldn’t have conflated her argument’s with yours. Totally my bad.

The old Ahmadinejad Gambit: Homosexuality is illegal here; therefore, gays do not exist; ergo, we cannot possibly be persecuting them! Human rights whaaaaat?

No. That’s exactly the claim he wants to make. And he’s proud to do so.

SOLID DEFENSE, DUDE. Can’t imagine why people are worried about your treatment of gay folks.

Do ‘conservative’ papers ever hire liberals for ‘balance’? I sorta think they don’t, and nobody ever thinks that should be redressed. It’s only the papers people think of as liberal that wingnut have to be courted.

In 1996 Rod Carew’s teenage daughter died of leukemia. The doctors wanted to give her a bone marrow transplant, but because she was half black, half white, they never found a match.

Samesies. I have no idea if it’s still around. I didn’t go by Korra over there.