You’re most welcome! In the meantime, if your food situation gets dire, check to see if there are any non-profit emergency food banks in your area. I believe some of them (all of them?) are “no questions asked” with some restrictions (for example, needing ID and proof of the number of people in your home).

Check to see if there is a legal aid service in your area. They might be able to help appeal the denial of social services to you and your kids.

Hmm. This is terrible. It’s possible that she did give consent to Parker even though she was very drunk (and back then, drunk consent was consent) but it seems clear that she didn’t consent to having sex with the other guys. How completely shitty of him to invite others to participate. Worse, he seems entirely unable…

“Short term sacrifice”? You mean the “short-term sacrifice” of raising a baby you didn’t want after SCOTUS overturns Row v. Wade? The “short-term sacrifice” of having your family members deported? The “short-term sacrifice” of giving Nazis, white supremacists, and xenophobes a platform and a sympathizer in the White…

GO READ THE POLICE REPORT. The pictures referenced are IN THE POLICE REPORT. Look at them for yourself and you will see they are not porn.

Skip what is *says* and go look at the report yourself. It includes the images the cops describe, and they are not even slightly child-porny. They are artsy, risque, BDSM-y, and feature young people, but don’t in the least ring the “OMG THIS IS CHILD PORN!!!” alarm. You will find worse on the runway at Fashion Week.

Yes. I’m calling bullshit on this story. The PDF linked in the Radar article notes that none of the materials found rose to the level of child pornography, and a look at the included images would tell anyone that these are art photography books, which is exactly what Michael Jackson said they were.

Oil is optional, but of course, it makes the bag greasy.

Oil is optional, but of course, it makes the bag greasy.

REMEMBER: You can also make kernel popcorn in the microwave.

REMEMBER: You can also make kernel popcorn in the microwave.

She and Rosario Dawson have been AWFUL, parroting right-wing talking points and left-wing innuendo about Clinton, insinuating that Barack Obama is a “disappointment,” talking down to Dolores Huerta (FUCK BOTH OF THEM!!!) and other Clinton supporters, hinting that a Trump presidency would be a-okay with them— they…

Just think if a Democratic president is able to get one Democratic chamber and one closely divided chamber. In that case, the president would have some leverage to get something done which is why I think Hillary would be the better candidate. Her policies don’t require a sea-change in entire sectors of the economy to…

He wasn't a bad governor. He simply was in the uneviable position of governing during a huge recession. It's hard to start new, interesting programs when revenues are projected to decrease for years on end. The best he could do is "manage," and that's what he did.

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Her speaking fees are fees for speaking; they are in line with the fees paid to other famous people for making speeches. So no. It would bother me a whole lot more if she *didn’t* make them pay for her to speak to them. I do freelance work sometimes and I get paid by my clients, too, but that doesn’t mean they own me.

It’s also frustrating when Bernie supporters cite the ongoing “scandals” she’s had over the years, or her “shady reputation” as evidence that where there’s smoke, there’s fire—

Meanwhile, Joseph Fiennes was just cast as Michael Jackson . . . .

I don’t really understand why Twitter/Facebook/Tumblr/Gawker/Etc. have to be so all or nothing for some people. All of these media (mediums?) have their benefits and uses. The key is not to wrap your ego up in them. Can’t you just pull back a little? Realize you can go a day or two without them, enjoy them for what…

I know the theory. You and Bernie are both wrong, in my opinion.

As a black woman, I strongly disagree. Police aren’t shooting unarmed black people in the middle of the street because we’re in a low tax bracket. Abortion rights aren’t magically going to be secured the moment we get a $15 minimum wage. Undocumented immigrants aren’t going to feel any more secure with higher taxes on…

Everything that is not directly about economic equality takes a back seat in Bernie’s platform. It’s not that he’s against women’s rights, Black Lives Matter, etc., it’s that he doesn’t have a subjective feeling of their importance.