They’re a pretty bullshit device but when I lived in LA I figured better to pretend I’m somehow filtering that awful tap water than just drinking it straight. It made me feel better (and that weird carbon taste was better than the dirt taste the water there usually had)

My dad is a civil engineer with a water treatment specialty. He was all Wut. Omg.

It did happen. What they did to her was monstrous.

Evil. Completely evil. I remember when this happened and I had to stop reading the description of her injuries because they made me physically ill.

There’s plenty of mob justice videos from India on LiveLeak to show that this will likely happen to him.

How is she supposed to put food on the table if she doesn’t perform for dictators?

She also shared this photo with the dictators daughter, who acquired her wealth while the rest of the country lives on $2 a day. I usually really like Nicki, but this is a major bummer.

please do not equate the irreparably stupid and evil to the mentally ill.

Terrorists using an act of terrorism to advance their terror agenda.

from this huffpost (ugh I know) article about 3 UN workers coming to america to assess gender inequality:

Someone/ones needs to follow protesters around with signs that say “This person is a terrorist.”

When I was on mat leave I joined a playgroup with my older son that offered on site babysitting for infants to give the mothers a break. There was an older gentleman who volunteered because he loved babies (he was the only one that my fusspot allowed to hold him besides myself). Now wouldn’t something like that be…

My neighbors are vehement protestors. Did they help during my high risk pregnancy? Nope. Take my poor kids to the park to run when I couldn't? Cook a meal?? BIG NO. Did my pro choice neighbor come take out my garbage and rough house with my boys and do my dishes? YES.

“No one deserves to go through what they have gone through, even though they put themselves in harm’s way.”

The one in my city has nutters who wave around rosaries that, I shit you not, have plastic babies as the rosary beads. They’re out there when it’s closed, and waved their beads in my open car windows and shouted at me after I got in a car accident outside of the clinic. I loathe these people.

I also base my social awareness on reality shows. Like, have you ever noticed that every group of people contains exactly one gay guy? Weird.

I don’t want to seem like all of the things that are words that that are used for women; they don’t have those words for males.

I think so. Especially if they are talking about social issues. A lot of people think actors/celebrities should just shut up and do their jobs and be pretty. They shouldn’t speak up because who cares about what they have to say?