“I’m moving to the barn” is the best goll-darned sentence ever uttered.

Yes. It costs hundreds of thousands of dollars per year to keep an inmate on death row. They tend to stay there for years due to the appeals process.

You are a good mom. I agree that there is far too much hyping up of talent and praise and inventing ways to make kids feel good about everything. My friend’s kid was in a kindergarten “gymnastics meet”, but at the end, every kid was put on the 1st place podium and given a medal and certificate. All that part was…

Good! And I hope and his family WIN. American racists and bigots need to be hit where it hurts and learning that you cannot be an anal polyp on the earth and feel no recrimination.

It was so weird, b/c my dad was never like that. It was like, around buddies, he was like any other stupid boy who just giggled with his friends about some stupid shit.

I was about 12. My dad had buddies over to watch hockey or some such. I was asked to bring snacks, etc. into the room for them. One or two of them made digs at me about having “small tits”. My dad agreed with them, and some other sort of joke was made. My face burned, and something inside me broke. Totally stopped…

My employer does offere sick days, HOWEVER, if people actually take them, your name gets literally highlighted on a list. If a person takes too many sick days, they get a “talking to” and definite vibes that their contract may not be renewed. This happened to me when I was dealing with severe clinical depression. It…

This reply is vastly more eloquent than mine. :)

I hate Twitter for the most part, but will follow you there so I can be sure to find out where to find you next!

Me too. This sux ballz.

BCO and Kitchenette were the only reasons I came here. Guess I’ll check back to see where Pinkham gets picked up.

This is a beautiful story - I’m crying now. *hug*

There is no shame in crying because of books. I bawl all the time - some of the worst in-public moments: The end of Time Traveller’s Wife, in the Kuala Lumpur airport; the end of A Thousand Splendid Suns on a flight to Hong Kong

Oh my, oh my, oh my....the hug in the parking lot and the ice cream from the little boy. Does the heart extra-good. Living wage is a must - and we all sometimes need a hug or ice cream. SOB!

One of the primary missions of schools is to keep kids safe. My school (I’m a teacher) has also stepped in to stop kids from doing stupid/dangerous things off school property. A recent example is that the admin found out (I don’t know how...) that a bunch of seniors were selling tickets to a massive party, and had…

hahahahaha! That’s sort of adorable....

Yeah, he had that super-tight foreskin thing and sex was painful. Once they circumsized him, then he could “do it”

He just had a backpack and was still dirty from the race. He had no way to clean up b/c his hotel key card got stolen. Some jerk security dude probably thought he looked homeless.

How is it possible that a major international airport doesn’t have translators all over the place? This guy spoke ITALIAN. New York has Italian speakers. How could a person do so little to help???