The. Fucking. End.

It’s largely at the discretion of the local troop leaders. Way back in the 1990s we had openly gay scouts in our troop. A big deal was never made of it. Technically the leaders were breaking the rules but what was the BSA going to do, fire the unpaid volunteers? If atheists want to join the scouts they should approach…

Ebooks give slightly lower royalties because they’re cheaper, but because you’re less likely—or cruelly disallowed—to resell the book, you’re keeping demand for new books up. Best of all worlds, if you’re cool with the user limitations.

That’s a great idea for a future story.

My parents have even put aside money for their “container fund” that will finance dumpster rental to throw away all their stuff

Im a swede and I can confirm that this is quite common in Sweden.

When I first read the title, I thought it had something to do with a metal band or something. I’m picturing the album cover being a bunch of long-haired burly dudes in corpse paint wandering around a winter forest carrying mops and brooms (with lots of spikes on them), or some such.

I wish I had Photoshop skills. I…

My grandmother is 89 and she started doing this when she turned 70. She figured instead of having us have to sort out who will end up with what when she dies, she’d rather just start making sure things were with the people she wanted to have them. Which is why I have four boxes of crystal, china and silver that I just…

I never thought I would hear someone say that moving away from Lubbock might make them irresponsible!

Oh, I know that now. I think that his sexual choices weren’t very wise, and he was in denial about his practices and who he practised with. He might not have been the best judge of character, when it came to thinking with his other head >_>

Good for you on the flag-waving, marching and chanting - I wish I had that quality to be more proactive, especially, in more of a public setting. It always just feels like either I’m stuck in an echo-chamber or I’m talking to someone whose beliefs have been poured in concrete and long since become an immovable object.…

That is the most descriptive story about lice I have ever heard: probably because an adult who experience it is telling the story. And we were ALL that 23 year old (with or without lice).

It’s because “white” is the norm. I’m white and I only ever thing of myself as white if race is brought up. But I wouldn’t think of it on a list five things about me kind of way.

No, we aren’t in those positions; our positions are infinitesimally worse. So no, we frankly aren’t going to to bother “looking at it from this perspective”, because we don’t feel sorry for you.

...How’s Karen Pence handling all the backlash from this weekend?

How do you rate the quality of a Harriot piece? You look at how many rampant racists fill the grays.

My gut feeling is that many of these men are guilty of harassment themselves and are now panicking at the idea that they’re about to get busted.

She voted for him because when you buy into the patriarchy, and someone like Hillary Clinton’s existence alone proves what a loser you are with your little patriarchy schtick, then you react on a visceral, almost nonsensical level. Dressing it up in religion is a tried and true tactic of southern charlatans…

BINGO.

“They zeroed in on the one thing that united Catholics and Protestants: the question of abortion.”