I don't actually think the only ones who do this vote Republican. I used people voting Republican as the example because the article is about people watching Honey Boo Boo rather than the RNC.

I would guess that that means like all the 24 hour news shows (Maddow, Cooper, O'Reilly, etc.). But Honey Boo Boo beat the actual network broadcast of the convention. Which is not all that surprising to me.

Ugh. That's part of why people are voting for Republicans - no one pays attention to what people are actually saying / doing except for the political junkies, who have pretty much already decided who they're going to vote for. And then all the people who were watching Honey Boo Boo show up at the polls and vote…

Here is what I am concerned about. We know that they are lying. People who are already going to vote for them don't care that they are lying. But those people in the middle aren't realizing that they're lying.

This reminds me of the SVU where Elliot becomes obsessed with tracking down the perp who stole his credit card - and then finds out it is his daughter and that she used it to get stupid matching tattoos with her boyfriend.

Why would you ever, ever, ever dip your baby's pacifier in an energy drink? Dipping it in whiskey or cough syrup or some other depressant, I understand. (I wouldn't do it, but I understand the impetus behind it.) But what is the possible motivation for wanting to amp your baby up?

My comment was badly worded and basically just should not have been posted. I know Oprah's audience is mostly white but she tends to do a great job of highlighting race issues and giving them a spotlight that other people can't. So it makes sense to me that they would want to emphasize this particular part of Gabby's…

Sorry - my original comment was ill-conceived and just all around stupid, and I shouldn't be trying to justify it in subsequent comments. I also hadn't seen the interview and thought she was saying something much different than she actually did - another reason I shouldn't have commented in the first place. I…

I wish I could delete this comment - I worded it incredibly badly and I should never have posted it, because it's flat out wrong.

Oh interesting - I did not see the interview and was going off of this article, which made it sound like it was the major focus.

What else have I said about race lately, besides this comment?

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that she was misremembering. More that it makes sense for producers to emphasize the bullying due to race since that makes her becoming the first Black gymnast to win the all-around all the more compelling. So perhaps an isolated incident became the focus of the story. This gym seems to…

There's not no thought behind it. She apparently owes this gym a lot of money, and this gym has had more elite Black gymnasts than any other gym in the country. So that gives me pause. I also perhaps worded my comment badly - didn't mean to imply that it was some sort of induced memory, more that perhaps one isolated…

I agree that there's a whole shitload of stuff that is about race, and I don't doubt that she's encountered racism. What I'm saying is, I would not be surprised if there was some sort of conversation along the lines of "Were you ever bullied?" and then when she said yes, saying "Did it have to do with your race?"…

The only person who can know whether or not Gabby was racially bullied is Gabby.

I'm on a PC running Firefox, if that's at all helpful.

Yup, it just loads Seize's and your reply.

Apparently there are 106 replies to this post. I can see exactly one of them - Seize's. Then I see your reply to Seize, and the two replies to that reply. Nothing else. No way to get to anything else.

It's to see how far along you are and to see the state of the uterus. It's actually more necessary for medical abortion than for surgical abortion. Since you will be completing the procedure at home without a doctor present, they need to make sure nothing is going to go wrong. Before the baby reaches a certain size,…