Of course they need outside independence. It’s taken me a LONG time to recover from my overprotective, terrified mother. I doubt I’ll ever be full recovered. The point is to raise a kid to be an independent adult; you can’t do that all at once when they’re 18. It has to start when they are young. If you can drive your…

I think it sucks more when the breakup is about circumstances or timing. Here’s a perfectly good relationship we can’t have because of X,Y, or Z. Plus, you get old and realize that love doesn’t really conquer all; that there ARE real reasons to not be with someone and sometimes nothing can be done to change it.

And some of the horrible people in the world are police officers and prosecutors who are more worried about closing a case than getting the right person and who will gladly run roughshod over some poor, barely mentally capable person if it gets them glory.

Well, have you read about the Innocence project? I hate to live in a society that blithely kills people in the name of revenge (while calling it justice). It’s even more disturbing when you fully recognize that “justice” is bought and if you don’t have the power and money, you’re fucked.

Who knew that this would actually be a needed product 4 years later?? Someone needs to resurrect this.

That’s not how kids get forgotten in cars. You’re traveling across the country, not in familiar surroundings, likely on a bit of alert if you’re a woman traveling alone, and having your cats with you isn’t likely routine.

Mostly because of how much we’ve had religion rammed down our throats for so long. Makes one a wee cranky.

Uh, no, it’s actually a process. First the stats people have to figure out the target houses based on demographics and statistical sampling methods. Those house addresses go to the marketing reps who head out to recruit the houses. If they can’t sign that specific house they have a bunch of alternates they can try…

Never ceases to amaze me the number of parents who are surprised that a baby actually turns into a person with his/her own needs, wants, opinions that may be very different from their own. Add in the concept that parents own their children’s minds and bodies and you have a very nasty combination.

Well, maybe if so much of life didn’t fucking suck I wouldn’t be tempted to avoid so much of it.

Straight, middle-aged, white female and terrified because I’m also pro-science, atheist, liberal too. My own mother, who I live with, doesn’t understand me and hates me (for being a pro-science, atheist liberal feminist), so totally not looking forward to the next 4 years. :(

I just...can’t. WTF, US, WTF.

It’s sweet when they remind you and nudge you when you’re too content and lazy to bother to get up.

Have you read about the food processing industry, especially slaughter houses, before regulations? Do you really think industries police themselves and the free market will take care of it?

A long time ago I was sitting in my car in a walmart parking lot and some guy walked out of the store and then proceeded to blow his nose onto the pavement. He closed on nostril and blew a big wad of snot. Very gross and I’ve never been able to get the knowledge or the image of that out of my mind.

It’s an example of the trolly problem (doing something vs. allowing it to happen). So, if you saw a kid unconscious in a tub or pool you wouldn’t act to save them because there’s nothing wrong with not acting?

The necessity or lack of action doesn’t change the inherent morality. The question is what is a human life and…

I’m living with my elderly mother and let me say, this part of it is.......challenging. The other day my mom told me that there’s this huge organization that wants one world government, one world currency and her cousin is going to send her a paper on it. I tell her it’s a conspiracy theory and explain what that is.…

I tried it for a while, joined a local pagan listserv, realized how much infighting and dogma was still involved and became completely disgusted. So, I realized I am an atheist and stopped trying to fit into any religion.

I’ve killed plenty of potential people in my lifetime because I’ve never been pregnant and won’t ever be. However, it’s ridiculous to think that a potential person should have more rights than the living, breathing, thinking, feeling, PERSON whose body it’s invading. And it IS an invasion because there’s a struggle…

You got issues if you think you have the right to dictate what a living, human woman does with her body.