Quit ruining the movie magic, you jerkface!

My excuse?

MY excuse?

The fact that there is any amount of snark and derision towards Jaycee Dugard is FUCKING ASTONISHING considering what site we are on. That little girl was not only raped pretty much daily for the better part of a decade, she was forced to give birth to two children. She was in captivity for 18 years, which is an…

Elizabeth Smart also came away from her experience without any children. I think Jaycee Duggard's desire to protect her daughters has factored a lot into her decision to remain a private person. I read Duggard's memoir, and even there she says very little about the two girls (which I think is a wise decision).

No. This "everything is beautiful" trend ends right here.

Soooo... Does it make me a bad feminist that I don't think these pictures are "beautiful"? Educational, enlightening, fascinating, but not aesthetically pleasing to me.

Here's the problem with anyone who looks at cancer drug trials that are now shut down because of the GOP gov't shutdown and says, "Oh yeah, those are just trials so it's not a guarantee of effective treatment." For those who have no other options, it's not only their last chance to try something that at least made it…

I used to be a frequent flyer (thankfully that phase of my career seems to have ended) and I have learned that you cannot, under any circumstances, express any emotion other than sheep-like domesticity, when going through a security checkpoint in an airport. Many TSA agents have overblown senses of self, and if you…

He's a troll. He just called me a babykiller because I was a soldier.

My mother was diagnosed with brain cancer a few weeks ago. Her biopsy was sent to NIH like two days before the shutdown. She can't get chemo until NIH processes her labs, and there's no sign of that happening soon. This is kind of a time-sensitive issue.

Oh, Lydia.

I need to have vaginal ultrasounds on a regular basis for a health issue and I hate them, though I wouldn't normally care if an entire group of med school residents was staring at my snatch. The ultrasounds feel invasive, there is just no other way to put it. I can't imagine being forced to have one.

Pretty sure it would be right up Lydia Bennett's alley!

He's just mad that his attempts to outlaw fellatio and cunnilingus were overruled, so he acts like that was never his idea

I'm sure a determined terrorist could conceal several hundred grams of plastic explosive in his (or her) rectum. Shall we start screening passengers for that too?

I guess he got finally got round to reading it. Now we just have to stage some kind of intervention for Lizzie Bennet and we're away.

Ummmm No.

Nowhere does it say that old people can't be violent. It's not ageist to say that an 82 year old woman who isn't in the best health doesn't have the physical strength to be a real danger.

And the minute we say 'okay, a government agency has free range to do whatever as long as they potentially are protecting us' is the minute nothing matters anymore because the terrorists have succeeded in making us all paranoid AND getting more of our freedoms taken away. It's a double-edged sword and there's no…