You also forgot:

FWIW - My new favorite hashtag, because it is so true, is: #yesnotallmenBUTWHICHONES

Not only their kids, but other people's kids, as well.

Few groups make me as angry as the willfully, proudfully ignorant.

I wish we knew each other in real life so when you're an "old woman" of her 30s or 40s, I can laugh when someone tells you you're too old to do something that makes you happy.

I actually like Al Sharpton, but he is a terrible host.

I haven't seen his show yet (I see most MSNBC shows via app through XBOX and have yet to see his show appear in my feed), although I like him in interviews. Didn't even know he was gay. And Thomas? Who is that?

That's good to hear.

And when a POC or a woman does make it on a news show, the POC is there to discuss race and the woman is there to discuss reproductive issues. Which of course should be discussed (and not exclusively by white dudes), but it's not like white dudes are the sole experts of everything else under the sun.

I generally love cat gifs, but I think this one out does them all. Thank you for this gift.

Looked online for the transcript, but could find it. Anyway:

Yep. I'll never forget the time I got verbally blasted by my kid's sitter the time I got stuck at work, past closing, by some customers who wouldn't fucking leave the little store I worked in.

Yeah, it's ironic that the Government in the Sunshine Act (which all citizens everywhere would be lucky to have) also allows bloggers easy access to stories like this. Section 119 is especially handy to citizens.

I think the real question is: Did Mr. Burns find love on Flag Day?

"And why the mom? Where's the dad?"

"point of the sentence/fines is to compel the mother to ensure her children receive an education"

Hi, yeah, I just saw this elsewhere in this thread. It is just beyond contemptible. Which I suppose is how many Americans feel about the poor, so I guess I shouldn't be too surprised when predator capitalism meets indigent defendants.

Have a non-violent, non-drug offense pay her debt doing nonprofit work for the community? Madness, you hippie!

I don't have time to find the source material right now, but remember all the push in Arizona to make being an undocumented worker a criminal offense? Plus the accompanying 'papers, please' laws? Shockingly, it turns out Arizona has a huge for profit prison system. So, yeah.

Poor Land in Jail as Companies Add Huge Fees for Probation