doriancOcOcO: I so appreciate your beautiful response to my rather unbecoming whingeing.

I agree! And also starred and thanked radicalred; and (not to complain) but my response to her is in the grays while my argument with another poster (who seemed to be arguing against the little girl’s appearance) is in the black, and so I look like a total jerk who is arguing with someone who just gave us a beautiful,…

Thank you, but it’s alright. I could not think of a better example of where those awful pictures actually come from than my own. Had I been older I might’ve thought to get a lawyer. A lot have been skimmed from sites like those. I have been told those awful photos of shredded babies are medical photos from traumatic…

Oh my god I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry for your loss, and for what those horrible people did to you. I'm just a stranger on the Internet but my heart goes out to you. I'm so so sorry.

A decade ago I shared a picture of my son who died a few weeks after birth on a site for grieving parents. He was a preemie and had all the standard preemie problems and failed to thrive even after I was allowed to take him home. Official cause of death, SIDS. I was a teen and had no idea how to cope so I joined this…

I have video footage of Carly Fiorina in her college days getting a train ran on her, as well as footage of her walking into an abortion clinic 3 weeks later.

which says it mission is to end “abortion-related violence,”

For accuracy’s sake, the people you’re talking about are almost definitely not Mayans if they’re from Oaxaca, unless they recently moved there (and then moved again to wherever you are).

As beautiful as this is (and it is magical); the idea of a five-year old living in fear of her parents’ deportation is unimaginably sad. Add to this that the majority of Oaxacan adult immigrants (at least where I live) have learned Spanish as a second language. The language of their parents and towns is Maya. That is:…

That was my first thought, too: Everyone is so happy to see this man and what he means to them. It’s a bit silly, says my cynical side, but it’s a crappy world, so it’s too sweet to put down completely.

Maine has some cool Republicans. And yes, I am mostly thinking of Olympia Snowe.

It’s also insanely badly fitted. If you’re going to wear a suit it really has to fit like a dream. She should have gone to a men’s tailor to get this sorted.

Ellie what about this look???

Your proof would be what? I have to say, generally prisons are not, in fact, known for being an accepting or fun place to be trans.

I think that it’s possible to believe that she deserves to be incarcerated (I’m not even going to express my own feelings about that here, because it’s irrelevant) and still think that she, and all other inmates, ought to be treated with some basic decency, including respecting their gender identity.

This. But we all know who wins the Facebook martyr-off: stay at home moms.

1) It’s not a matter of perception. It is, in fact, a clock. Not a bomb. That’s not perception. That’s fact. They can perceive it to be a shark with a friggin’ laser, won’t make it so.

I would like to start out by saying that I know and love many nurses (my mom was one for 30+ years), I admire and respect the job they do, and Joy Behar is an idiot. Nurses are awesome!

-Because it was a clock

I’m very skeptical of their story. When police take a bomb threat seriously, they evacuate the premises and send in a little robot to investigate/detonate it. This is straight up “this kid is a Muslim and an engineer which means he could grow up to be a bomb-making terrorist, so let’s give him a scare he’ll never…