I want to say I’m shocked, but I’m not. I toured U of M over 25 years ago while I was looking at grad schools. One of the reasons I chose not to go was the vibe was SO weird - walking through campus, my stereotypical Italian-American appearance stuck out like a sore thumb among the exceedingly blonde-and-blue-eyed…

Yep. Agreeing with you.

I wanted to find a new rage-punch gif and I found this Mashable post. All of them - I feel like using all of them with this.

Okay, fellow white woman stepping in to hopefully explain to you why Rooo is upset with you, since you can’t seem to figure it out on your own.

Oh, let’s just say I had a longer response I deleted about how sometimes, I feel like it’s over-diagnosed - because there’s gotta be a reason Andy or Jenny isn’t in the 99th percentile on the development chart - and I had a link to this article, too. But it was late and I wasn’t sure I was cogent.

I had to read that thread a few times before it made sense.

I had to slap a 20-something Bernie-supporting family member down - as did several of his other relatives - because he was saying that as a country, we don’t have a gun problem. We have a problem with the mental health system, and then he discussed the fact that the majority of gun deaths in this country are suicide.…

“You just need to have them. You’ll change your mind”.

First - I’m so sorry anyone said that type of stuff to you. I heard a lot of similar stuff and it’s the pits. (Especially if you don’t share your uterus woes with the general public, nor do you FEEL like sharing them because it’s not their business.)

All I can tell you from the vantage point of approaching 50? That…

I looked up the article - she does actually compare LaVar Ball to Marv Marinovich, and devotes the first part of the article to him and Tom Marinovich.

I made this soup last night. (Only 4 egg yolks.) It really does wonders for opening congestion up and it’s dead easy.

People who don’t have mental illness do NOT get it. It’s like they learn everything they know about mental illness from movies and TV. And that means: Mental illness = horrible, violent person.

All I know is that a white gunman went after members of Congress this summer, and they are still under the thrall of the fucking NRA.

Just to clarify - I think NOT calling this a terrorist attack is utter bullshit. Of course it’s a terrorist attack.

I want to rage at this, but sadly and incredibly pedantically, this is considered a “mass shooting.” Because at the moment, there’s no explicitly political motive for it.

It’s thought that Washington himself would have loathed it.

While I do do some things from a box and some jarred/canned ingredients - I’ve got some heinous hip injuries so days I need the shortcuts - I mostly do from-scratch cooking. Since that’s what I learned from my Mom, and it’s really not that difficult. My sister-in-law keeps harping on me to get a pressure cooker or…