thank you. thank you. thank you. aaron taught me how to live, and i think the purpose of my life is to share him with whoever will listen to me. x

<3 thank you, seriously. he is loving this piece from the great beyond.

She writes beautifully. This is the entry that got me full on sobbing:

Thank you for writing this Rebecca. Purm was also a badass feminist and loved Jezebel.

Isn't it great winning the in-law lottery?

This reminds me of my wonderful niece, who, at the age of 4, was explained the reason why Christians celebrate Christmas.

"He's dead. Dead people don't get to have birthdays. This is pointless".

Unless Ms. Clary is dead, then this kid is just really good at covering all the bases.

Sidenote: If I was an elementary school teacher turned ghost, I would haunt the shit out of people with the smells of scented markers. You'll know I'm angry when an artificial grape + black licorice odor wafts past your desk.

I wonder how much of this "flirting and causing a ruckus" was women just sitting there eating salad while a bunch of guys catcalled them from the next table.

FUCK. It was Carter?!?!? Upthread someone was assuming Reagan. This... is heartbreaking and infuriating at the same time.

So, uh, you can be so sexist that it's illegal under Saudi law? In a country whose cops chase school girls back into burning buildings, you can get to a point where the authorities are, like, "Hey, come on, man. You're going too far, that's sexist"?

I thought Charles was just engaged. Which is proof enough that the universe operates at the whim of an insane child.

I could only think of this...

Michael Lohan and Charles Manson are both married. I think Republicans are banning the wrong people from marriage.

Just to note - up until President Carter deregulated the airlines in 1978, these low wage non union airport jobs were all good paying union jobs.

I feel the same way. The people who are rich enough to care about and want bathroom attendants are already in the private airport lounges, and the rest of us just feel awkward. Do I tip even if I didn't take the mouthwash/washcloth/etc.? What if I do take one and realize too late that I only have foreign currency in…

Did you spend time with my mom? When my sister announced she was getting a divorce several years ago, my mom went ballistic and accused her of not trying hard enough to work things out.

Not going to lie, I volunteer at a shelter where we get people coming in all the time who already have one aging dog and are contemplating getting a second, and a lot of them have mild to moderate guilt about bringing in a younger dog. It sounds terrible, but you really do need to overlap your dog acquisitions. Get…

I was married at 22, divorced by 24 (I wrote 25 in another reply, sorry it was right around my birthday) and I will be remarried at 28. And oh my lord, I am getting some reallll awkward comments from people, and so much side-eye. But it's not the people that really know me.

I met my cat too late to adopt her that day too! I was meeting a number of cats in sequence, and at the end of the day I picked her out to meet. She was bony and clumpy and ragged (she had just come off of stray hold, clearly had a rough time on the streets), but she rolled over on her back and purred when I rubbed…

The best way to get away with criticism legally, is to invent a Church of Hating Scientology and then get every statement covered by religious freedom. The legal standard for what passes for a legally protected religious belief is laughably low.