But did you guys know she’s John McCain’s daughter?

I grew up in Alabama and was sent to Christian schools for many years. We were taught how the p goes into the v and that you shouldn’t have sex until married or you’d go to hell. There was no education around contraceptives and women were/are shamed about their bodies and made to feel responsible for the sexual…

I’m afraid so. I've got a fantastic imagination but even I couldn't have made that twisted shit up. The extreme right Republicans have an iron grip on things down here in Tennessee. We are every bit as backwards as Alabama and the rest of the bible belt.im feeling very hopeless and angry today.

So, I just did my nursing pediatric rotation. One thing I learned in the pediatric ER is that we are to presume pregnancy in a girl as young as 9 years old until it can be ruled out with a pregnancy test. Partially, it’s a liability thing for the hospital, because most medications have embryo damaging effects, but…

God is very convenient for evangelicals. God created the fetus. God bestows good health (or bad health to the sinful). Insurance moves people further from god. (Something a Tennessee Congressman and doctor! actually said. Google Dr Mark  Green and Medicaid expansion.) God blesses the worthy with wealth. (Poverty is a…

Who’s Paris Hilton?

I’m terrified of climate change but am pregnant. Partly it is a biological urge, I think, yeah; over the last few years my fondness for babies has become more and more insistent. Partly it’s privilege, I’m afraid; I live in a reasonably rich country that’s one of the top two most food secure nations in the world, with…

The one snarling into the comically large phone seems to be suffering from especially acute economic anxiety, or something.

She’s clearly on the phone with the manager.

I have a natural sense of direction and was always able to inherently read a map as well. Same with my brother and, during her lifetime, my mother. My wife, on the other hand, while incredibly smart, hard working, and diligent, cannot find her way with or without assistance. It creates anxiety when she has to go…

It’s only my first mother’s day but my gift to myself is that I do not have to see my mother in law (who is a pain in the ass and always makes people drive an hr to have brunch at 10am).

My mother has always hated the Hallmark Holidays, so I’m lucky to have grown up not giving a shit. When my sisters first had their kids, I did a call to say Happy Moms’ Day, but at best I’ll get my mom a plant (like to put in the ground, not vase flowers). Same goes for Fathers’ Day. I hope you get your nap!

“If I get a couple of hand drawn cards and sloppy kisses from my kids and an afternoon nap, I’m good. “

YES THIS.

We usually get my 76 yr old mother clothes suitable for her office work, as she made it clear many years ago she DID NOT want housekeeping items, like the ones Tracy spoke of.

A couple of years ago, the NYT ran an article about how Mother’s Day is bullshit. One woman talked about how on Mother’s Day, her family “gave her the day off” and told her not to worry about anything. At the end of the day, she went into the garage for something and found all the dirty laundry dumped in a huge pile —…

Having said that, you would still noticed a grown man going in and out every day. But just chiming in to say it’s not like he was on a floor with hundreds of students in a building.

I lived in Slonim 8, next door to Slonim 9 (but years before this whole mess). Those aren’t dorms in the traditional sense. They are more like townhouses (albeit fairly decrepit ones that a bunch of college students live in). You walk in, there’s a living room to your right, a kitchen to your left, stairs down to 4…

The thread by Julia Pulver is absolutely wrenching. Worth reading, but completely heartbreaking.

So how long before someone shoots up a neonatal unit because someone influenced by this motherfucker will think they’re trying to save babies?