I have met him three times and he was a delight and wonderful and we danced a lovely impromptu waltz in a shoe store. Sometimes you should meet your heroes.

So you’re saying we should address those issues too? Cool cool. But they kinda need water and power RIGHT NOW, not later.

Jake Gyllenhaal also wasn’t a Marine.

Any self-respecting parent of a preschooler knows that when you’re reciting e.e. cummings, you have to change the words just a teensy bit for maximum bonding power, i.e.:
i carry your fart

Yeah, that was not funny.

Ok, thank you! I was *floored* by that closer. It is such a mean, fucked up, unnecessary thing to say!

I went through the EXACT same line of thinking. “Wow for once this advice isn’t terrible.”

*Reads answer to LW1*

#neverforget #doingthelordswork #whitejesus #whitesanta

“Democrat Congresswoman totally fabricated what I said to the wife of a soldier who died in action (and I have proof). Sad!”

Yep. However, the one thing that must be said about Trump is that he’s such a fucking buffoon that he is actually slowing them down a little, I think. Don’t get me wrong, I think they’re pursuing the exact same agenda now as they would if Pence was in office without the dipshit, with Pence at the top, the White House…

Kevin Just Can’t Even

“We literally didn’t have any ideas, so we just killed off the main female character in order to juice up the plot.”

Can Kevin Not?

I was adopted as an infant, but know my biological family and I totally agree.

From my perspective, trying really hard and two bucks will get you on the subway. If your best isn’t good enough, it’s not good enough. My mom’s best was certainly not good enough for me and I resent her for her efforts to prevent me from being cared for properly by others when she wasn’t fit, regardless of her…

Usually I see this post too late to comment, but I am enraged by it every week. My mom’s story would sound exactly like this, that she was a good mom and every external force in the world separated us - it was my dad’s fault, it was the neighbor’s fault who reported her, it was my fault for telling my teacher I didn’t…

Thanks so much for sharing your perspective on this. I know that the purpose of this series is to highlight the parents’ perspective in the system, but having worked on the “child’s” side of the system, I think the children’s stories are necessary to give a complete picture.

I’m an adult now with a good life, but I was a child with a mother like the women in these stories. She was stripped of her parental rights by a Midwestern state in the early 90s. I don’t know how much you all know about the Midwest, but for my home state to decide that a woman was not fit to parent, her behavior had…

In my day, you just couldn’t go on Jezebel and call a fat chick a “balloon animal.” My, how the times have changed.