I try as hard as I can not to buy into party tribalism but the fact that Al Franken voluntarily resigned after a picture of him pretending to honk a sleeping woman’s breast came out, and people like Roy Moore and Brett Kavanaugh refuse to give up campaigns with the allegations they face is solid proof that Democrats…

The Republican modus operandi is always the same: They tell their slavish followers it’s a setup, it didn’t really happen, it’s all fake news, these are crisis actors hired by the Democrats to unfairly take down ________ (fill in the blank). We’re apparently living in a parallel universe, where everything liberals…

Also, “one of the good ones” and in favor of “fiscal conservatism and small government” are not compatible. Small government is code for keeping more of the money I made on the backs of working people and dismantling any kind of a safety net.

Every so often you see people declare themselves one of the good ones, one of the true Republicans who believe in fiscal conservatism and small government.

I was always generally premature as a kid, and when I was 8, I was terrified that I was going to get my period soon; The Care and Keeping of You was an incredibly reassuring resource. Not reassuring enough to keep me from being somewhat tortured by the experience of having a period at age 9 – my classmates didn’t know…

woah woah...  I’m sure there are asshole kids but lets not assume anything.  I’ve seen plenty of woke kids come out of super racist disgusting parents. 

Maybe they could just put up a white tent or something, right next to the red tent, for the lactating ladeez.

When my daughter was a few months old, we went to Mr Tooty’s company picnic at Hershey Park in PA. It was hotter than hell, and I needed to nurse her, so I sat down, in the full sun in a gazebo filled with senior citizens wilting in the heat-there was nowhere else and certainly nowhere air conditioned, and I was not…

Just politely suggest that if she delays the feeding until the sermon, there might be some choice sound effects to punctuate the lessons.....

To be totally honest, hearing a suckling child hungrily going for the boob in church (for me) would be the best thing about church. As a reformed southern baptist, I would find it irreverent, hilarious, and almost as good as a hearty “AMEN” from a little old lady in a big hat in the front row. If anyone has ever atten…

You can definitely get lucky and feed the baby before rage screaming. HOWEVER, babies being babies, sometimes they go from asleep to I AM DYING OF HUNGER in about 2 seconds. Or you try to feed baby before the big even but they’re too tired or distracted or cranky to get a good meal in, so they just get hangry 15…

Nah, all the kinds of Bible God. Having your son born of a virgin is a big flashing sign that you are grossed out by biological fertility.

Etched in the crystal section of my memory is a moment forty three fucking years ago* when I was visiting my mother in Palo Alto CA. The purpose of the visit was for her to get to know her first grandchild at age 5 months. We were out at lunch, and Baby wanted to eat as well. I excused myself and rushed to the Ladies…

She was being prescribed methadone right? Did her doctor ensure she was supervised or was assisted in reducing the harm to her and her child? What are her doctor’s responibilities here? Was she actually offered a cost effective program to help her ensure she had assistance balancing the independently overwhelming tasks…

But we also make it difficult for low income women to obtain birth control so that they don’t have unintended pregnancies.  And TRAP laws make it difficult to end unwanted pregnancies.  So this is what happens.  Women who are not in any position to care for babies end up having pregnancies forced on them and then we…

but a baby died and the ignorant religious elected to the judicial system must make a show so everyone knows that they will fight for the life of babies (except for the ones who are born/alive, of course)

I don’t know how to explain to people like you that addicts are generally not capable of that level of organization.

I worked as a nurse in a locked psych facility. One of my NAC’s lost a baby this way. She was not prosecuted because I don’t live in a shit state, apparently. She was just gutted over it, because she had no education in her life that had ever led her to be able to understand how the biology of all this works. She…

Oh my god.

Funnily enough, I'm at the end of my pregnancy now. I type this from the hospital bed as I wait to get induced! :)