People will always seek answers to the unknown. Religion provides those answers. There is no “Getting rid” of it.

what the evangelicals don’t get is that THEY are the breeders of atheists. the conservative household is a perfect environment for little rebels (hi 👋) 

I’m an American living in Sweden now and get to hear a lot more about it given the proximity. It’s really kind of a conservative hell hole. Or conservative heaven depending on how you look at it. Their president has called LGBT “ideology” (which as a gay person I’m not even sure what the fuck that means)  worse than…

You can’t understand them, because their positions is inherently illogical.

This is really interesting. After the first season, I kind of feel like the writers wanted to create a new world and intended to create a utopian society. What ended up happening was that people of color became place holders. What I thought was going to happen was that this season would be different because the leads…

Huh? Seriously? I don’t remember Kavanaugh or what’s her name recusing themselves from anything. If so, ugh.

Judge Jackson, even if she was confirmed today, wouldn’t likely issue a ruling on that case.

Given the craptastic optics these days, why is the Queen hellbent on staying head of state of the former colonies? They all do realize how shitty that looks, right?

If it was based on the British legal system (likely given old colony and all that) then that is a distinct possibility they do.

Thank you. In all the concern over protecting the most vulnerable from covid, a lot of folks forget what those protections cost in ways that you describe. I work with mentally ill and developmentally disabled adults who live in care homes, and while I was going in person last summer I’ve been back to all telehealth…

I sympathize with the anxiety here and can’t imagine being a BRAND NEW mom during this time. However, I’ve been living a slightly different version of this story—my older son (just shy of 5 at this point) has significant special needs and, in the “before times” received speech therapy, occupational therapy, behavioral…

So what?  Are you trying to cure her anxiety, or concerned about an actual bad policy she is advocating for?

I guess I’m curious where she makes any argument about whether daycares should be open or not.  I may have missed it.

Becoming a mother changes you. You are not the same person. And it’s ok, in fact it’s great. I imagine the change of becoming a mother coupled with the craziness of the pandemic has made it harder to adjust. But maybe it’s time to reach out to the friends you haven’t seen. See them, do it safely. It’s important…

Aren’t you just bravest little toaster! 

I’m fully vaccinated from the earliest days of vaccine availability, I still wear a mask when I go to stores and I believe the medical and scientific community in their efforts to protect us all. However, I’ve also been around long enough to know that it’s delusional to the point of being pointless to expect everyone…

I’ve been saying since the beginning of this pandemic that some people have never sat next to their kid in a hospital bed and it shows. 

A rant in agreement with the author: I have a six-year-old and a four-year-old. My older (vaccinated, mask-wearing) kid got COVID at school about two weeks ago. She had a sore throat for less than 24 hours. My younger kid (less than 80 days from being able to be vaccinated) caught if from her despite our best efforts…

I don’t have kids. I can’t imagine the worry you go through. I do, however, have preexisting health issues. According to the back to normal narrative, I’m expendable. I’m never going to have a normal. I’ll be wearing masks for the foreseeable future. I literally see one person a week because I have to. I understand…

I ignore anyone who tells me that I’m safe unmasked around unvaccinated people because I’m vaccinated.  They can wear a mask or not as they please.  They don’t know my immune system.  They don’t know who I interact with.  They don’t know who I’m protecting by taking what they think are unnecessary precautions.  For me…