Congress has actually blocked the CDC and NIH from being able to study gun violence (even though 34000 Americans die per year).

I would respectfully suggest that understanding that nothing posted online is ever private is a more vital life skill than knowing how to correctly spell Ta-Nehisi Coates.

So expressing a desire to physically harm a child under your care and calling them fucking idiots is totes cool?

I get that what she did was upsetting and that you feel she deserves more punishment, but can I say I dislike this knee jerk thinking? Automatically thinking everything deserves time in prison, and the tough on crime mentality is how we ended up being the country with the highest per capita prison population in the…

it is definitely more a men’s health issue than a women’s health issue

You’re making us want to post the Atwood quote again.

I have already seen conservatives elsewhere suggest that she should have used that gun to kill her father.

Women are five times more likely to be murdered if their abuser has a gun.

El Salvador is the most glaring example and I don’t see that happening.

Then stop clinging to them.

I was enlisted back in the 90s and you didn’t get to touch a weapon outside of tightly controlled circumstances. All ammo was painstakingly accounted for each and every time you went to the rifle range or on guard duty. There was no fucking around. Because an M-16 is a deadly weapon of war. No one, and I mean no one,…

I know everyone is ready to crucify this woman and all, BUT.. my child’s father has these same sorts of problems. It isn’t anything you can see and it is due to Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. We’re not together anymore and its something you need some time with someone to recognize. We only had him diagnosed at about 25. I…

The Dory effect? It’s the new Twinkie defense.

That’s a not moral quandry. The moral position is obvious.

I don’t use the word hate lightly. I also try to remember that most people aren’t good or bad, everyone has some humanity, etc, etc.

I got my sweet puppeh from the National Mill Dog Rescue (http://milldogrescue.org). He is healthy and socialized now, but he was a mess for a while. He lost about half of his teeth, and the rescue had to cut away all of his fur in one gigantic stinky mat. It took him ages to learn to do normal dog things like barking…

Southern trees, bearing strange fruit. Blood on the leaves, and blood at the roots.

Cthulhu 2016 - It’s time.

guys, do you ever just feel like this country is too broken to be fixed? godfuckingdamnit.

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