I can’t get that one!1!!! But I like a non-sugar/non-sugar-substitute sparkling water type thing, so I’m content with what I can get.

That must be the *hardest* thing ever. “Everything is basically great *except* this major issue.” Kudos for recognizing a no-way issue and dealing with it.

TOTAL congrats on taking your life back. I never had to deal with anything like that, and am in AWE of people who can. BRAVO!!!!

My kid is still reeling from TA’ing, but the summer courses were MUCH easier than the spoiled pre-med kids in what was basically a Bio 101 they had to pass. Talk about pissy immature dorks....

Congratulations! The only time I’ve been published was a piece in a small country rag about me being a NMSF foreign fisheries observer.

I. Just. Can’t.

You might want to talk to someone about repressing emotions that I would hope you have if someone raped your kid.

Child rape is just the same for you as adult rape?

Oh crud. I’m sorry for you and your sisters. This sucks. Big time.

We had *so* much fun thinking up names. Our parents’ and grandparents’ names did not mesh well, so we nixed them. My favorite for a girl was “Mizithra Brie”. For a boy, “Chomondeley Featherstonehaugh Stjohn”. And of course, the always popular “Rotifer Stentor”.

I think of a Teletubby when I hear “Po”.

When I was little, my best friend’s nickname was “Toad”. To this day, I wonder how he got it.....

And, having lived in a small rural community, everybody knows everything - even where someone is now staying. It can be weighted heavily against an abuse victim. A church near where I lived defended a child molester, even providing him with a lawyer. The victim hasn’t been the same since. Which brings up the whole…

It makes me PISSED OFF.

Because everybody is effing supposed to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, according to conservatives AND not be allowed to vote if they need to have any help from the gummint.

So... are you trying to figure out how to blame the victim here?

Change the batteries in your sarcasmometer, okay?

What are these optics you keep yammering on about? Some new trumpette buzzword?

silly trollette.

$2000. That’s a thousand for each of the one woman’s children. Let someone hold a gun to your kid’s head and shoot them and tell me a thousand bucks should cover it.