I’m from Chillicothe; I knew Tiffany and Charlotte from high school. People have their opinions of the town—I even agree with a lot of them. It breaks my heart, though, to hear the constant narrative of “Yeah, it’s such a tragedy, but they were drug-using prostitutes. The town’s riddled with poverty, what do you…

She’s also running a contest on Facebook where you can vote for the woman who should appear on the $10 bill, although she’s also made it clear she disapproves of the whole idea: “Since politicians just can’t leave well enough alone, and evidently have nothing else to do, they’ve decided to create a new $10 bill…

That is an incredible saying. It certainly seems to be true with a lot of people.

lol the fig thing will NEVER EVER EVER not be funny

obligatory.

The King James Bible is taught as literature. It is really beautifully written and very moving in passages. I personally believe it’s a bunch of fairy tales and mangled social history but it’s a beautiful piece of work.

I keep forgetting not everyone lives in California, & so not everyone knows automatically that “initiative” = “yet another batshit psychopath babbled out some suggestion that they want made into law”. We get so many of these idiots out here, which is why voting can be so painful (you have to actually read through and…

This is what happens when you have an insane ballot initiative system.

True story: I became agnostic on my way home from a Southern Baptist mission trip. To Germany, birthplace of Protestantism, but anyhow. The plane had a science program on in-flight radio about how ants have agriculture and domesticate other insects. My 13 year old brain suddenly lost the ability to fathom the…

Oh, are you one of those people who don’t believe that two things can be terrible at the same time. ARE YOU?!!!?!!??!!??!

“Asshole birds didn’t think I could come up here, huh?

Yeah, I think there is nothing incompatable about wanting the spotlight and having a legitimate story to tell.

Many moved on to live happy, healthy and productive lives

Man. It has to be a real bummer dating someone for money. Who would have thought that relationship was not going to even handed?

I don’t think “Checking for sleeping kittehs inside the wings” is covered in any manual or checklist...

well theres an old saying: 8 out of 10 therapists are useless, 1 is dangerous and 1 is actually good. thats almost exactly my experience

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I think I have seen about 10 talk therapists in my life. Maybe more. Not a single one brought up timelines and end dates. Not one. Am I just the unluckiest depressed person out there? Also: not a single medication helped either for more than four weeks. Fuck this profession.

A decade. To me this is yet another anecdote that goes into the pile of “talk therapy is a scam.” My own experience provides the bulk of the pile.

Hahaha. I was thinking the same thing.