As a lifelong Dem, I’ve been trying to imagine what it would be like if some nutbar had the Democratic nomination. Would I really be able to bring myself to vote for Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz? Navarro seems like a smart, principled lady, and though I imagine she and I would disagree on a lot of policy, I am giving her…

Lots of stoners that I know have anger issues. That’s the main reason they smoke pot. And it’s usually in conjunction with something like bipolar, which they are self-medicating instead of getting real meds. When they’re high they’re fine, but as soon as the weed wears off... things get real tense, real fast.

Some daily marijuana users are using it to cope with other issues. So, if you’re prone to anger and irritability, smoking too much or not enough might exacerbate existing problems. Some studies have suggested that very heavy use might even damage the reward circuitry in the brain.

It may not cause anger issues, but it can definitely exacerbate them. My stepfather was an angry dick a lot of the time, but he was 10 times worse when he was stoned because everything that upset him (i.e., everything) was “ruining his high.” We learned very quickly to stay as far away from him as possible when he was…

Stoners not having anger issues is actually a pretty big misconception. I’ve known plenty who are far from the happy panda stereotype. At the very least, people who are ALWAYS high tend to be incredibly unpleasant if they are in a situation where they can’t smoke. When I was younger it was acquaintances who knew they…

No food made anywhere can be guaranteed safe.

Please allow me to decipher the language of the emoji. Cara surrounded a *sun* with *middle fingers* and preceded @victoriassecret with a *heart*

Ivies don’t give out athletic scholarships. And very little of the school’s income comes from tuition dollars. Its endowment is $37 billion dollars—the largest in the world.

It appears there IS a limit to her powers.....

Now I know that not even Beyonce can make me like Country Music.

I knew Tommy casually when I was in college and he had People’s Place in Elmira New York. He asked me out a couple of times, totally wacked on coke and weed. I found him to be predatory and already full of himself.

Thoughts on Maddox, from one who’s been there.

plot twist: Taylor is Jennifer’s surrogate.

I know men do ballet and gymnastics, my point was more that there is far more pressure on women to reach elite levels and then retire at much younger ages than men. For example, the US Olympic Gymnastics team this year. Men’s ages: 23, 24 24, 25, and 29. Women’s ages: 16, 19, 19, 20, 22 (and referred to as “grandma”…

And even IF bra burning was a thing, which it wasn’t, femnist activism was the 70s, not the 60s.

I want you to point me to this mythical 16 year old with the great understanding of the history of the 1960s (especially one who’s essentially had a full-time job for most of her life). That person, if he or she exists, represents an infinitesimally small percentage of all 16 year olds who have ever lived. If we were…

As the parent of two sophomores in high school (which is what LH would probably be) I can say definitively that they have never been taught any meaningful amount about the 60s—a little civil rights and maybe a skoosh of Vietnam. If you asked a control group of “regular” kids what they know about the 60s, the answer…

So, snark.

I have no idea what Laurie Hernandez’s homeschooling was like. I do worry about fields where the requirement to succeed at a very young age means that kids are training full-time with so little time left over for academics that they’re almost assuredly getting a sub-standard education. It’s particularly troubling that…

She’s a kid with a weird childhood perhaps you could chill.