Shoot. That junk is still front and center at the stores around here. It's practically the first thing you see when you walk into Gander Mountain.

I hate this shit. Just this morning, the local news was talking about the Innocence Project and a man they just got out of jail. He'd been wrongfully accused of rape. I didn't catch how many years he'd been in (7, maybe?), but seriously. The idea of spending any amount of time, much less THREE DECADES, behind bars for…

Indeed. Where I live, beards like that don't warrant a second glance and camo is commonplace. It's not like there is a shortage of real rednecks to film. (Though I'm afraid it would devolve into the "look at how these idiots live", bodily-function-laden mess that is Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.)

(Also, I just need to…

They don't really want to marry him; they just want to be on TV.

My ex-step-mother was abused and raped by her step-father from early childhood until she got married at 17 to escape him. That man later became a bishop.

Your story makes my gut hurt. I'm so sorry you went through that.

The LDS church has many issues regarding women, and this is related to none of them.

This post is so much of the reason I'm inactive. I'm sorry you had such a hard time there, but I'm definitely not surprised. My family thinks I'm grumpy and jaded, but this stuff totally happens and everyone just looks away.

Chriiiiiist. Mayonnaise from the jar.... *hurk* :/ What an awful person.

Someone posted an episode clip somewhere in here....

I think that's a good guess. My boyfriend's nephew was 138 lbs at age 7 (almost three times the average weight for that age). I'm pretty sure they started giving him food to shut him up, and then he just got used to that.

I don't have speakers at work, but I think I saw her say, "I'm not going to starve my baby. That's child abuse!"

I think it's only okay if you are super tight with this person and they've been talking to you openly about their efforts to lose weight. Otherwise, nope.

Any space where you can store snacks is an extra space worth having.

As a kid in Tucson, I went to school with/was friends with lots of Hispanic and Native American kids. When I moved to Virginia, there were African American kids at the school, but none in my group of friends.

I'm rethinking my dinner plans now.... Christ, that is delicious.

The bolding was on the original.
I'm sorry, I wasn't very clear. Before I posted that, I mentioned that I was in Virginia and that our consequences weren't NEARLY as rough as what she was talking about in Texas. I then looked it up and came back with my findings.

That a first offense DUI gets you nothing much worse than a speeding ticket would. That even when you're in there for a THIRD TIME, they're only giving you six months in the pen. That it's only "possible" use of an ignition interlock.

So... pretty much all of it. DUIs will continue to happen if people know they can…

From DMV website:

Are those consequences for a first offense? Here in Virginia, it seems incredibly common for first-time DUI offenders to get off with a slap on the wrist. You MIGHT get jail time on your second, but I don't think serious consequences don't kick in until the third time. (Don't quote me on that. I'll go research it now,…

I had to stop reading at "'whole' kids". I just can't.