WE NEED A RECURRING DAILY GOOD NEWS (NON-CELEBRITY RELATED) POST ON JEZ. MY BRAIN CAN NO LONGER TAKE ALL OF THE MADNESS AND HURT IN THE WORLD IN ONE SMALL SPACE.
This is a great opportunity to learn about being a good friend and family to someone working on sobriety. Don’t be a dick and tempt them with bars, getting drunk, and then fault them for drinking. I see this too often with my own family, “If s/he really wants to be sober, s/he won’t drink.” You literally just ordered…
35 year old male who has been sober for 8 years now.
This is my 5 year anniversary month. 5 years ago I woke up and realized I was done and started attending AA meetings. I love how you said that you’ve met sober women who scare you— I agree! But thank you for covering the flip side which is, you can meet women who are normal , funny, sensitive and witty in sobriety…
Mary, this is all relative. Part of it will depend on you, part of it will depend on your social situation and friends. A lot of it will depend on your ability to be sober around other people who are drinking. A lot of people don’t drink for lots of different reasons, whether it’s temporary, or long-term. This can be…
Whenever any article about someone includes the words “in an interview with Taki’s Magazine,” you can just stop listening there because what’s coming up next is going to be racist filth. The “magazine” is just a thinly veiled Stormfront wannabe.
Me too. His ‘British Milhouse’ joke killed me.
It is appalling how long it has taken to get any attention on this issue. The disappearance of Aboriginal Women and girls in our country has been routinely swept under the rug. One reason why that shitbag Robert Pickton got away with being a psychopathic murderer of women undetected for so many years. The scary thing…
“The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear.” - Will Ferguson
People do care. This is why we voted in a man who promised to set up inquiries and channel more funds towards First Nations people.
I first heard about the Highway of Tears in the early 90s, pre-internet, from my Lefty friends who spread the word via zines/etc. It’s insane and unbelievable that we’ve taken this long, as a country, to officially acknowledge it.
A United Nations report last year described measures by the previous government to protect aboriginal women from harm as “inadequate”
I wish I could pretend that this is just a weird blip, but it’s not. The systemic racism towards indigenous people in Canada is so very entrenched. Beyond even the horrifying cases of women, missing indigenous kids frequently don’t even warrant an Amber alert. People living on reserves go without proper resources or…
This is what that The Secret, truthiness, Donald Trump shit gets you. A complete inability to grasp that what you want to have happen and reality are two different things.