So proud of my sister for all her volunteer work for Rotary International to help eradicate polio. Every year since 2000 they hope that this will be the year it will end.

There is no fucking way I’m spending money or time on a gun course. I just want to know the classifications.

Charles Manson was brutally and repeatedly raped as a child. He suffered poverty, neglect, and abuse. Most children survive that without committing horrible acts of violence as adults, but some don’t. If we as a society don’t want to produce more Charles Mansons, we need to do better at preventing abuse.

She used the spoon backwards!

Excellent idea. The original system had “starred” commenters — commenters who were permanently ungreyed (unless they later did something that got them booted). Either writers or “starred” commenters could star other commenters, making them permanently ungreyed. That system worked incredibly well. It was a community…

My husband’s grandfather was a schoolteacher in a very small town where everyone knows everyone. He was in his 90s when his grown children started to get calls from townspeople about how he’d driven on the sidewalk when he went to the bank, etc. But he refused to stop driving.

Even the “women lie about what they ate for lunch” is sexist. Fuck her, it would never fucking occur to me to lie about what I ate.

LW1:

I mean it’s not about lady vs dude but about not automatically doubting or disbelieving people who say they are victims of sexual assault.

And Weiner.

I think that logic ignores the implied threat in small instances of harassment. There is literally no way for the victim to know what’s coming next or how bad it’s going to get.

It’s all part of the same continuum, though.

It’s even common for interpreters to make up sign language instead of using ASL!

That beard is truly ridiculous.

You pulled your premise out of your ass. Any gun control initiative, no matter how benign, gets shouted down. No one on the gun control side is saying it’s all or nothing.

Police said Monday that Samson had two semiautomatic pistols on him when he entered the church. Both were still loaded with multiple rounds after the shooting ended, and Samson was wearing a “tactical vest” with three more loaded magazines of ammunition, said Don Aaron, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Nashville…

Woah, I never watched that show but if that’s a true representation of what’s on it then I’m sickened. That’s severe psychological abuse that they’re normalizing there. I sincerely hope it didn’t give abusive viewers even more ideas.

We have a fucking 2nd amendment. What more do they want?

Excellent article, as usual for Michael Harriot. I would LOVE it if he did a follow-up article explaining the different types of guns and ammo.

That way, in the event I’m asked a similar question again, I can categorically deny and defend said friend/family member.