Well, I'm an American, and I'm pretty sure our country's "situation" is pretty fucking secure. I'll see your Pearl Harbor and World Trade Center bombings, and raise you Iraq, Afghanistan, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, internment camps, the slave trade, and Native American genocide.

The "holy shit I want to kill myself" comedown is how super-villains are born, though. That's why they're so grumpy.

Isn't it?! Holy crap, how I miss chile. I'm in New England now, and it's a bummer, food-wise. If I ever get my kitchen in order, things will change.

Good point. I suppose all species have their own creepy flashers.

I knew it! I knew aliens couldn't possibly be so stupid that they'd find their way to Earth, only to spend a decade in the US and still not understand minivans or jackets.

Will this be judged by scariest-most-fucked-up nightmare or scariest-but-super-cool nightmare? Because I can't decide which to submit yet.

I'm not from NM, but I lived there for several years and miss it terribly. I'd cut off an arm to smell chiles roasting in the grocery store parking lot again.

Same, here. I'm afraid they're setting her up to have a pregnancy later in the series, probably with Miles, and then it will be all drama and angst and ugh and everyone will tell her she can't go on this mission or that recon because it's tooooooo dangerous! what about the baby?!

Well, fuck. You're right. I assume it's cool with you if I want to find a therapist to help me be a better lesbian? I mean, I keep my fingernails short, but I haven't eaten a lot of pussy yet.

Seriously? False equivalency, much? This ban just prevents minors from being subjected, often against their will, to harmful anti-gay 'therapy,' which is not at all endorsed or condoned by the APA. If a minor is having difficulty with their sexual identity, they can still see a therapist, as long as that therapist…

Finally! Every time I try to talk about feminist issues with other people, they're all "OMG, YOU ARE TOO FUNNY AND COOL! WHY DON'T YOU SHUT UP, I CAN'T TAKE HOW FUNNY AND COOL YOU ARE!" This is a real problem.

I'm [mostly] recovered from self-injury, and I agree that it sounds like that could be part of it, in which case I'm all the more supportive of it. I was a lot more self-destructive when I felt like I needed to hide and be ashamed, and a lot more likely to not take care of myself afterward or process what I did in a…

There are people who genuinely do need help to lose weight and/or watch their diets, as determined by themselves and [hopefully] their trusted, competent, non fat-phobic doctors. That is not WW's target audience. They trade on manufactured insecurity. And that's the whole fucking problem. They don't make money by…

My only problem with these is that I'd have to start walking backward everywhere. What's the point of T-Rex shoes if they're not stalking *toward* things?

Just knowing that romance existed is THE reason it avoided Angel for years, despite my epic love for Buffy. I love most of it now, but I still kind of wish Connor could have been erased from my memory, too (though I'll admit I think he was redeemed as a character a little bit at the end of season 5).

It's not always a matter of not having ID at all, but of not having the RIGHT ID, like others have pointed out. When I moved from NY to MA, I registered to vote, but didn't get a new license for a long time because the $50 I'd need to change my address was something I couldn't really afford, and it didn't have any…

I agree with you, and I'm married - one of those "nothing really changed" marriages, even, where we got hitched by a judge, then went out to dinner with a few close friends and drank ALL the margaritas (it was an amazing night!). But I know that I'm privileged to have a relationship that's legally recognized, because…

Unrelenting squee!

Yes, exactly. That he *only* meant to say that the middle class *includes* households making up to 250K is the most generous possible interpretation, and it still demonstrates a dangerous lack of understanding of income inequality and our tax structure, and lack of interest in learning, even if only to get his facts…