Women have provided vital services in every conflict in US history. Nurses, administrators, spies, soldiers, home front labor, etc. Plenty of women volunteered for service in Vietnam and served with honor and distinction. Don’t you dare denigrate service just because it doesn’t involve gunz’n’bomz.

I’m for it on the grounds of both equality and taking a major MRA talking point away.

White men in camo out of hunting season in Michigan are worrisome, especially in large groups. I know of at least two private militias besides Michigan Militia, they take their shit very seriously and are generally armed to the teeth.

I saw a huge amount of donated water being loaded at my doctor’s office this morning. I love that people are helping so much - we are on the other side of the state from Flint - but I really, really wish it weren’t necessary.

Is... is she on drugs? Dumber than a box of hammers? Some kind of alien infiltrator with dodgy translation software? All three? Inquiring minds are not entirely sure they want to know.

I’ve tried her books multiple times, and somehow her style just didn’t clicked with me. But I’m clearly in the minority in this, so grain of salt and all.

I think she was talking about the intensive sf/fantasy writing workshops.

If he gets the nomination, he’ll hand the general to the Dems, right? Please?

My nephew basically refused breast milk after about six months. We think he figured out that people around him were eating lots of different things, and he wanted in on that! So he got lots of baby food with formula mixed in, and he’s doing amazingly well in kindergarten.

Oh, please, everyone knows ‘government transparency’ is just something that happens to other people! The True Elect, the Tough Nerds, are above such petty considerations! How dare you doubt the word of the glorious and benign Tough Nerd?

Snyder literally thinks he is above the law - not only did he set up the emergency managers to be accountable only to him, he’s made ti so that the entire governor’s office is exempt from Freedom of Information Act requests. I understand that the Legislature can act to kill the FOIA exemption, but I don’t expect the…

The only Robin Hood with an English accent.

It’s only in reading this thread that I realized just how many of my favorite movies Rickman was actually in. What a terrible loss.

In his defense, I think Jeb (and everyone else) thought he would be The Anointed Heir to the Bush legacy. He was the serious one, W was the loser ignoramus druggie brother. Then Jeb had to not only watch his dumbfuck wastrel brother start winning, he ended up having to deliver Florida and the Presidency to W. Doesn’t…

My sister was very careful about what tv shows she allowed my nephew to even know about. Thus we were spared the horror of Barney. Though watching the same Curious George episode four times in a row got annoying.

No offense to Cher, but I’m just not sure how much she’s gonna be able to help with Flint’s water troubles. Unless she’s talking about praying?

Pretty much this.

If I had a time machine, I wouldn’t go around fucking with historical events, I’d go to places like the Savoy, see Benny Goodman play Carnegie Hall (then to the Savoy to see Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington have a cutting contest with Chick Webb and Ella Fitzgerald), and Bessie Smith any damn where I could.

I don’t think there is enough NO in the multiverse.

The only success story I can think of is the Muskegon Heights school district, and that only came about because the private charter company that took over the district ran out of money and dropped out of the contract. So I guess it’s improving in spite of the governor and his appointed dictator, not because of them.