It’s probably more another way to control her, nothing to do with sentencing, unfortunately. Ugh.

I’m reading the book No Visible Bruises, and it talks about a danger assessment for violent relationships (predicting likelihood of a fatal incident), and one of the key predictors on the list is if there are children not related to the abuser in the household. That’s for a violent relationship, of course, not the…

I live in the suburbs. I genuinely hope she is successful and makes a positive difference for the neighborhoods. Chicago is an amazing city with some of the best people, and it’s been struggling.

Yes! I find it so frustrating that so many people don't get it. They complain about the loud kids and miss the real danger.

I’m a public librarian. I don’t worry about our Muslim patrons, black patrons, Latinx patrons, or Asian patrons. I worry about one of our angry white male patrons coming in and shooting us, either because of some crazy anti-government thing or as a domestic violence incident. Like, no joke. I smile and nod at most…

Bullshit. “Liberals” are vetting 21+ candidates to find the one who has the solutions to our national problems AND can stand against Trump.

Same here, for Illinois.

I genuinely felt like “Any Idiot 2019" when I filed my petition, but I know I won’t do any worse than the guy who had the position for 18  years, so...

I ran for local office. The reason why there are so many dumb people in office is because so few people actually run. (Yeah, I know I just insulted myself, but I’d never say I’m a genius. I just want to serve my community.)

I wish you guys had a tip jar or something. That was perfection.

The punishment is the inability to participate. Parents get turned away and don't get to enter the school.

Counterpoint: show them in explicit detail. 

We do it the way they did: by building up our bench, municipal election by municipal election. It's going to hurt until we do it, because we've neglected to do that for DECADES. I'm in Illinois, and my county went blue for the first time ever, and it's because we've actually been recruiting and training candidates,…

Yup, 1000%.

I just buy whatever version of Crest is cheapest, because that's the brand I grew up using. Sometimes I switch it out for Tom's fennel flavor, but I usually just reach for my standby.

The McKinsey consultants I’ve run into during my career have been some of the worst people imaginable. Like, demonstrably ignorant of the subject matter at hand but confident about their opinions nonetheless.

I’d check your sources on the whole “no one said anything” statement. He got called out a LOT during his turn as VP. No one DID anything about it...

I literally do not give a good damn about her being a Bernie supporter. I don’t think Biden is a horrible guy, but he has never actually stopped doing the idiot shit he needs to deal with if he wants to run for and be elected president. If he can’t combat this, he doesn’t deserve the nomination. 

Nah. I’m not conceding a God damned thing until AFTER the primaries. The primary is designed to winnow out the wheat from the chaff. If Biden can’t survive this, he’s sure as fuck not going to survive Trump. But what do I know? I’m just an old white lady who votes.

Anti-fur people are fucking morons. I swear I genuinely loathe the animal activist world. Everything always sounds great on the face of things, but the people leading these movements tend to be the absolute shittiest people on Earth.