it’s hilarious how many people I’ve been able to enrage by pointing out that impeaching Obama at this point is hopeless because of the time frame. my Australian friend got particularly apoplectic over that, he thinks it should be done to “send a message” and punish Obama as a human rights criminal. I’m just over here…

I think he’s already leaning into it, he’s had an interesting couple of weeks in a good way.

DAMN STRAIGHT. I hear people make prison rape jokes and I just look at them like....wat. I’m pretty hard to offend, and even jokes I’m not cool with I can play off, but that’s not one of them. What the fuck is funny about people stripped of their freedoms getting raped in an enclosed space? Maybe it’s our modern day…

.....this may not have been good information for me to get.

Weed isn’t all that interesting, but it helps a lot of people and can be fun. I’m not into stoner culture, but I smoke every day. It’s great for managing medication-induced nausea and anxiety, although I know a lot of people who don’t get that effect. It’s like any other loopy medicine, except the addiction rate is…

I’ve noticed a lot fewer teens smoking or approving of marijauana, and I think it’s because mary jane is now mainstream. It also has a decidedly uncool cultural past; stoner culture is considered dated and stupid. But teens shouldn’t be smoking the stuff, it does affect your brain before age 18. Unfortunately, from…

ty, purchased! I’ve been on the lookout for a nice pet fountain.

ty, purchased! I’ve been on the lookout for a nice pet fountain.

But what’s the benefit of a developing system at 12 weeks? You can’t donate 12 week old lungs even to a newborn. Hence why I call bullshit on most of these nutjobs.

eeeeenteresting. I haven’t had any procedure like that, but it does make a lot of sense.

At least here, they never perform the abortion at PP — they give you information and set it up at a clinic that does them or even the hosp, depending on who they have contracts with and what’s nearby. If it affected Bobby Jindal, they’d take a nice trip up to NY and return with a decidedly not pregnant woman/girl.…

If you need to make up horrifying ways for them to “kill babies” to make your point, you might be taking a flawed stance.

It’s not sound because it’s not true. A fetus has to be pretty fuckin’ developed to get hearts, lungs, etc so in that sense, it has nothing to do with traditional abortion — the tissue women donate is undeveloped fetal tissue that does contain, among other things, stem cells. But it’s a donation, there is no crushing…

My study abroad program offered a choice — you could stay in an apartment or dorms, in which case you were responsible for following whichever building’s rules and taking care of your own bills and groceries etc, but you got a lot more independence and were usually closer to the university. You could also stay with a…

There’s a healthy mix when you meet the people who actually don’t want to shit all over the US, and you want to be realistic without coming off as a chronic pessimist. To be honest, I just let them think that stuff most of the time unless there seems to be some kind of plan in the making, in which case I’ll offer to…

Or if you had to move stuff beyond travel stuff and clothes.

Pretty good rule of thumb, although some of my stories, while harrowing, paint the places I’ve been in an unfair light without some context. People would still rather hear those than the umpteenth person talking about how the French all eat lots of chocolate and wine and still look bangable, though.

Let’s please add that we don’t need to hear about how America is so shitty compared to where you’ve been. Especially if it’s like a 10 day study abroad to Paris/London/Rome. It’s one thing to appreciate different things about another culture, but if you get home and start spewing about how the US is so fucked up and…

To me it’s all about what you were doing there. If you were living your life — going to school, working, over a month is passable but probably better to be safe and not make any declarations until month 2 or 3. If you’re touristing, whether that’s living it up in Istanbul staying on someone’s couch or backpacking…

Interesting, we definitely could use a nonprofit agency like that where I live. I haven’t personally faced housing discrimination but I’ve seen a lot of it, some ways are sneakier than others. But it’s usually hearsay — I worked at a call center with mostly low income WoC with young children and it was known to…

I’ve heard a lot of people say the same thing. Soda in general, diet or not, just isn’t a substitute for water but a lot of people fall into using it that way. Both diet and regular make me feel weird if I consume more than about 8 oz, but they’re different kinds of weird.