It would be hard, though, to protest against defunding Planned Parenthood and other worthwhile things if we aren’t paying our taxes. “Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes. Just because civilization seems to be in the crapper lately is no excuse for us to turn feral. 

I wouldnt advise that. Keeping those people in your FB feed helps keep you out of the liberal bubble. I don’t think I was surprised at all by Trump’s win specifically because I have all the people from my rural, red, high school still on my feed.

That gave me my first laugh of the day. Well done!

No. I’m saying that if this obviously overwhelming despair is stemming from a mental illness, then get treatment.

Well, you were suggesting that he get off his ass and save us from extinction. That doesn’t seem like a bit much to ask on his last day of work.

Wow, hyperbole much? I read lots of comments lamenting the election results similar to yours in that they didn’t see a safe and/or happy future. I thought that would taper off months ago. Holy fuckin’ cow, get a grip! If this is coming from a diagnosable condition, get treatment. You aren’t helping anything or anyone…

... I also never had luxury of employer with group health insurance plan that allowed a worker to opt out of coverage-participation unless proof of coverage via another source ... to keep job, no choice but to participate in plan of employer’s choosing and pay my share, and that’s a lot more than the average…

Probably couldn’t find any latinx people who were unqualified enough to fit in with the rest of his appointees.

I interpret those in possibly a different way than you do (I’m not sure). “To do my duty” makes it sound like the Boy Scouts *have* to while “to serve” means that the Girl Scouts *choose* to.

We had a hard time training our dog to go down the basement stairs and we lived in tornado alley so it was important to get him to that. He had never had hotdogs before and that’s what it took to finally get him trained one afternoon — a bite of hotdog on each step.

Hello, Past; that was a blast!

I think I *heart* you!

Where’s Sean Hannity? Hasn’t anyone called him yet?

I did the Nielsen survey once. It was for a week and I was so proud to have been selected. Then I got the materials and it was the most work I’ve done outside of actual work that I resented it pretty quickly. I started leaving the TV on the same channel so I didn’t have to update my TV watching journal (by hand! I…

You can put your tablet or phone in a Ziploc bag to protect it from splashes. You can still use the touchscreen like normal. It’s pretty handy.

I love everybody in this thread. I don’t have anyone in my real life with whom I can debate the components of pen design. I nearly had an orgasm when you people stepped in to fill that slot. (Pun definitely intended.)

I need my cookbooks to be “real” books too. The iPad is handy if I’m making a specific recipe off a blog post but I love physical cookbooks for browsing.

And the dictionary is right there literally at your fingertips! I have learned so many new words since I’ve been ereading. Before, I’d be too engrossed in the story — or too lazy to get up — and look through the analog dictionary. I’d make a mental note to do it later but I’d usually forget.

Well, it’s the #1 story right now.

(Formerly, I worked for child protective services.) It does seem like there are more predators nowadays. However, based on my work, I believe that it’s actually roughly the same amount of predators — and most child predators are related to the victim — but we, as a society, are getting better at teaching children…