My best girlfriend from second grade did my hair like that a couple times during the summer. I looked cute, but I was seven.

A THUNDEROUS round of applause for “Drawer potato.”

One of my staff’s husband just od’d on heroin. It’s fucking awful. I know that saying stay away from it doesn’t really make any difference but please please get help if you need it. This poor woman is destroyed. Don't do that to the ones who love you.

I currently live in MA and it is becoming a bigger and bigger problem, especially recently.

That’s terrible. For everyone. Lowell’s like all the other old factory towns - it’s sad.

This is a huge problem in MA and it’s actually quite close to home. A former friend of mine somewhat recently “tried” heroin. And it was one of many reasons why I said nope, no thanks, goodbye. She was already a TERRIBLE friend without heroin, and I don't know if she's done anymore since then, but that's one rabbit…

As a resident of MA, the thing that irks me the most is the backlash on ordinary pain patients of the heroin/opioid epidemic. It’s become outrageously difficult to get even 10 percocet, from doctors you know, who know you and why you need them, because they are afraid of getting a visit from the DEA. It’s time to…

My mother was in the emergency room with her mother, and the patient in the bed next door was narcaned 3 times, mind you this was in Lowell, MA.

I have tried a few ‘things’ but heroin has always been on my nope list. Scares the bejeezez out of me.

Yea, that’s how I read the quote as well. I mean, he’s a dick. His Islamaphobia alone is a reason to find him despicable but I read that quote like he was referencing fantasy creatures. But as the original poster has declared over and over in this thread, s/he did not read the original quote. Did not know who said it.…

Precisely. Fuck her. She has no empathy, she’s only “reasonable” when it comes to things that directly affect her.

No, you’re right here, and everyone giving you shit about your supposed mistake is wrong. Tyrion is a “dwarf” in the sense that you understood, the pejorative sense, not in the Lord of the Rings, “short human-like creature that lives underground and loves gold,” sense. He is simply a human with dwarfism. A Song of Ice…

The only thing worse than making an asinine comment is following it up by replying 100 times to every single person who clues you in to your asininininininity. We get it, you’re not going to take a minute to reflect on your poorly calibrated outrage meter and general petulant irrationality and consider how you might…

Good point. I wonder if/when she leaves if she goes to another network and pulls off a Michael Steele-type role; moderate conservative who doesn't sound bat-shit crazy and reasonable.

My mother-in-law is a perfect example of this. She is from Argentina and we were speaking about back home and she was bemoaning the fact that there is actually a (heaven forbid) social safety net there and welfare. She was criticizing all these “poor, uneducated people” coming from other countries to collect welfare…

I read this entire stupid thread without once encountering the term “dwarf-shaming” and I’m kind of disappointed in all of you, honestly.

I think that’s a really common point of view. Conservatives I know (my dad for one) feel this way, and they always have one particular example of some guy they know who is on disability when he could actually work, or somebody on welfare they know who buys cigarettes and Pepsi. But they don’t think we should do away…

That bears an uncanny resemblance to the thinking behind “the only moral abortion is my abortion” kind of stuff: http://www.prochoiceactionnetwork-canada.org/articles/anti-…

I’m glad you got me all figured out.

Your heart’s in the right place but you’re doing this all wrong. When you come out swinging against something because your own mind has misinterpreted it or exagerrated it then you do the rest of us who are fighting for meaningful social-democratic progress a real and serious disservice. I’m not actually sure that you…