We used to live in Dearborn so maybe my perspective is skewed but at least there Beruit is all over the news and part of everyone’s conversations today. We’re all thinking of you and all the people of Beruit and Paris today. Be safe and strong, I wish we could do more than “send” love and support right now. I can't…

I don’t really think the US Military has ever pretended to care overly much about human rights in its prison system. They care only about the rights explicitly laid out in the UCMJ which has greater penalties and fewer rights than non-enlisted citizens. There may be other female detainees in the system but they are…

Again; the United States does not currently have a maximum security prison for female military prisoners. I do not know that there has been need for one previously. The time that women have been allowed into US forces is relatively short, their numbers comparatively small, and the number of women sentenced to…

Intent is not really a component of determining where people convicted of espionage are held.

I don’t believe at this time there is an American maximum security women’s military prison. That’s part of the problem.

I think being Catholic is a such a key component of her worldview, ignoring how it shaped her and continues to influence how she builds her life would be weird. I always love when a character has a faith but it doesn't rule to movie or show.

I’m Jewish so maybe I’m just not that familiar with Catholic propaganda but it’s never stuck me as such. I like how they manage to honor Jane’s culture and religious beliefs without making her one dimensional.

You seem to have a reading comprehension problem or a willful desire to paint people with an ugly brush. No one here is arguing that this child didn’t deserve to live, no one here is failing to mourn a child’s life lost. They are just positing that this may have been heartrendingly preventable.

My mom is a historical preservationist specializing in the Victorian era and she always laughs about this. She’ll joke that she’s “probably inhaled enough arsenic to be immune.” Even though she now wears gloves and sometimes even a mask it certainly wasn’t standard when she started 30 years ago. Whenever we would…

My mom is a historical preservationist at a Victorian museum and until a decade ago they didn’t always wear gloves when handling the clothing. Anything green though, the gloves went on as soon as you even glanced at an item. Apparently archivists and preservationists who weren’t aware of the dangers could become ill…

Oh good now I don't have to take you seriously at all.

3 times no less!

Houston has an out lesbian mayor who they’ve elected 3 times now and they voted for Obama twice too. The failure of HERO is demoralizing but it hardly makes Houston (one of the most diverse cities in the US) the epicenter of discrimination in the country. Bigots were really successful at reframing the debate on HERO…

We just relocated to Houston and I’m pretty demoralized by it. Those “keep men out of women’s bathrooms” signs and radio ads made me so goddamn angry. I seriously considered pulling my car over, uprooting one, and then jumping up and down on it today.

I really wish I could head to Fargo and buy this guy a drink/ spend the day counter protesting with him. Anything that makes the anti-choice crowd cry fat angry baby tears of impotence while also highlighting their lack of self awareness is aces.

Matt Fraction and Kelly Sue DeConnick are kicking so much ass right now.

He played a cop on a summer show called; The Unusuals that vanished without a trace and I was hot and bothered about him. When he hit the big time and people started interviewing him and it was all down hill. I think he has some pretty decent charisma on screen, he just happens to be a gross human in real life?

My best advice is to buy a decent vibrator and become so familiar with your own orgasm that you can coach someone else through it pretty easily. As I got older I feel like my rule of thumb became; “Be with someone who can answer the question; what do you like?” I found that people who couldn’t easily verbalize an…

I’m pretty certain my mom was still wearing half this catalog in the mid 80’s.

I think that’s what we call it now. “I was thinking about going out but I decided to stay in and just Drake around the house while I cleaned up.”