I attended a great conference once where a speaker explained something about domestic abusers that is commonly misunderstood. She explained that the idea of a husband flying into a rage and hitting his wife in a fit of passion is a stereotype of abusers that simply IS NOT TRUE.

She didn’t know her son was dead yet, so that wasn’t a trigger. Though it’s easy to assume that there was some kind of escalation going on that pushed him to suicide and her to murder in the same approximate time frame.

Goddammit I’m pooping right now and y’all are freaking me out.

That settles it then.

Documented US born-and-raised citizens don’t make good money working in child care, either.

The long time residence are the once being displaced. They are legal citizens. You literally have no idea what you are talking about.

To the person who thought it was a great idea to say Britney Jean Spears was dead:

Not exactly. My advice is not that if you do this, someone will come along. Maybe I should have stated it more explicitly, but my advice is more like: feeling like you need something you don’t have is making you unhappy. Instead of worrying about that, work on doing things that make you happy, and accepting yourself…

I picked up a “foster” Sheltie the other day. Foster is in quotes, because he is so not going anywhere. He’s a “bi-blue” — meaning predominantly grey. And very, very serious. So, I made the joke that he was grey from stress, and the lady from rescue laughed and said he started out as a sable. Our quips were slightly…

This person may be a troll. But their central point - that Taylor is probably the biggest and most successful celebrity in the world, whereas Rooney Mara is relatively obscure and obviously planted this gossip item - seems sound

Oh, another difference then. TaySwi made her money herself. Still no idea who this girl is btw. Someone’s daughter, I guess.

No idea who this girl is but this is her desperately seeking attention.

But why does it matter to you if she feels that way? You know that your kids are more important to you, so who cares. I don’t see why you felt the need to teach her a lesson. It seems mean and unnecessary to ‘shut down’ a (presumably) childless woman (and perhaps one that did not have a choice in the matter).

This is the best post you’ve ever written.

You are sending your readers to a site that asks them to provide their credit card information just to read the results. That’s lame.

California has the 6th largest economy in the world, most states receive funds from the taxes we pay and that’s okay. California is heavily in favor of social services, human rights, personal freedoms, alternative energy. People want to live in a place that aligns with their beliefs. If they are poor artists they are…

Nobody is saying they’re “owed” the privilege of living anywhere. I’d argue the people living in a warehouse “collective” in the city are just as gritty and scrappy as those who pack up and move to BFE.

No one thought they were risking their life to live here. Sure, the crime in cities is usually higher, but my partner didn’t think she was risking her life to go fucking dance. She didn’t even know what ghostship was, she was meeting a friend who was taking her.

People want a community. This group/party attendees included a lot of queer people for whom community means a lot. Just moving to a bumfuck cheap state is not an option for everyone. When I see queer people living in misery in some low cost-of-living place, I always think they need to move to an urban location where…

I just heard a report on NPR denying that they’ve determined the cause or source of the fire. They played a clip of their fire chief saying so in unequivocal terms.