I didn’t realize how much this needed to be written until I read it. My god.

“I’m fine” = “I am not fine, but if I say I’m not fine, you WILL tell me to Calm Down or Settle Down or Relax or You’re Getting Hysterical or It’s No Big Deal or basically tell me You Have No Right To Feel Whatever It Is You’re Feeling”.

But at this point, the Republican party is just a flagrant circle jerk of uncaring assholes who are only interested in getting their policy to impact those they feel are beneath them, while they are risen up.

Definitely. I try to start out with even-keeled, measured responses like this most of the time... but I generally just cut off political commentary by them immediately when it starts, literally by telling them “if you appreciate my company and still want me to come around and visit, I will not talk politics with you.”…

I should be shocked that Kavanaugh won even more support after he crumbled at the microphone, but I’m not. Centuries and centuries of religious doctrine codified into law, into how society views itself and its constituents, into who is more or less equal. Women created “sin”. Women besmirched mankind’s perfection.…

Uh no, this is not remotely a good point. Working with rape survivors means absolutely nothing with regards to judging the culpability of select individuals as being guilty of rape. Forget ‘serious’  conflict of interest, it’s not even a minor blip of a conflict.

Look what happened?

Ahh, yes. The wife is a psychotherapist, ergo this is a SEX WAR.

Probably.

I don’t mean to sidetrack from the issue but it drives me nuts, as a Deaf man, that a website that touts and makes hay from touting (or ramming down) progressive ideals constantly pushes out podcasts without transcripts or videos without captions.

My cousin who is on a very limited income is a champion reuse/recycle queen and has been for many years. It used to be out of necessity, now it seems to be her calling. She actually washes her plastic ziplocks, repurposes bottles and other disposables into crafts and has been a strong influencer on the rest of the…

I have a theory that “everyone has a cousin” (PS, if you don’t have cousin that acts this way, you are the cousin)

Please understand that all antibiotics (and all medications) have risks and benefits, but don’t imply that “if your doc is handing out cipro for a UTI, at this point they should know better.” You also need to know the local drug resistance profile to know what you should be prescribing. Where I work, E. coli (the…

My addendum to that is to cut magic erasers in half or even thirds. They seem to go a lot further for me when I split them up a bit. I think I tend to dig in with the corners, so cutting them up maximizes the corners.

I honestly believe I have PTSD from the two road trips to CA from FL and back I was forced to take as a kid. A dad who fought with everyone, a sociopathic cousin, a passive aggressive-OCD grandmother, a die-away great aunt, a sister that had to pee every 10 miles, and a miserable mother all trapped in a van for 6000…

Burnt pans: soak with water and a dryer sheet.  Leave overnight, the burnt crap should come right off in the morning.

‘Sup Jezzers, hope you’re all having a better weekend than I am. Because my poor dad hasn’t been subject to enough transplant related he has now been diagnosed with cancer. 1% of organ recipients develop this particular type of post-transplant lymphoma, so of course he has to be in the unlucky percentile. I’m so…

The bear is trying to figure out how to get these pesky and fragile-looking barriers out of the way so as to make the entire house more porch-like, and is thinking that the porch’s suggestion of pussy-grabbing is sounding pretty good right about now.

He can ask. So can she. In fact, I think she should have. “You first. Who are you? Do you live in this neighborhood? Should you be using this pool? I think you’re trespassing. I’m calling the police.”

No, it would be awesome if the cops enforced the damned law and arrested the white man for filing a false 911 report.