I feel a very similar way. I'm incredibly passionate about these issues, and am pursing a career that will put me in a position to better fight oppression. I want to help fight oppression, and I see institutionalized racism as the largest oppressing force in America, so I want to spend my life fighting it. Problem is,…

There's so many smaller places doing the fast-casual thing so well. Today, I went into a pizza place where they give me a 9 in pizza and let me pick sauce, cheese (vegan cheese available), a bunch of toppings and spices, and it comes out in like 4 mins and costs $8.75. I paid $8.75 for a pizza with like 8 toppings and…

I'm embarrassed by who the guy is now, but not what he was then. Back then, he was a hot, wealthy, biomedical engineering major. Now he's a chubby dork who took six years to graduate with a boring office job. I hit it while the hittin' was good.

My cat's review:

Two of my cousins (who are sisters) had baby girls in the same year and named them Reagan and Kennedy. Which one do you think is going to end up with a Jackson?

Kara, you're shaping up to be my favorite writer on Jez. That's all.

The issues imprisoned women face are unique and terrible, yes, but I think we should just go ahead and abolish prisons in general. Rehabilitation services, mental health services, and assistance the poor would be a better use of money and better serve this population.

I voted, but I don't blame my age group for not voting. Dems who get past the primaries are by and large neoliberals with just as many corporate backers as their Republican counterparts. I went to vote against Rauner, not for Quinn. It's hard to feel motivated in one's civic duty when you're choosing between a goblin…

If I were her, I'd want to spend my last days/weeks/months not having to deal with media outlets who have an opinion on what I choose to do with my body.

Haha thanks :)

Rauner is a monster. I'm not a huge fan of Quinn, but I'm going to be heading the the polls to vote for him to keep that dude out office.

I never liked hugging as a child, and most of my family didn't care and hugged me anyway, but my grandma noticed and started giving me a firm handshake when we parted. It became a joke between us, and we still do it (before we laugh and hug) to this day.

This is why you should never fiscally support FKH8, even if you agree with their message.

It's also a for-profit organization that makes a buck off of whatever progressive cause is popular at the moment. They also have accused good non-profit organizations of "race-baiting" when they get called out on their BS.

Yes. This is not a good organization.

Clay Aiken was a dick to my boyfriend's former coworker on OkCupid, and then later an even bigger dick to my best friend (his wig stylist) in a production he took part in. I've begun to default to the idea that even minor celebrities are total assholes unless proven otherwise.

Wal-Mart can be defined as "closely held" under this definition, just so everyone knows.

I was spanked just a few times as a child, and while I don't think it had any long-term effects on me, I'd never do it to my kids. I remember when my parents realized how fucked up corporal punishment is. I brought home a paper with a very low grade in second or third grade. I was always a straight A student, and I…

Well, she got back together with him and got pregnant, so a marriage happened. I think if it hadn't been for baby Laura, she would have gotten out way earlier.