Yeah, I’d place the date a little earlier than 1989, probably early 80's. The pictures of my young childhood look like this and I am turning (gulp) 40 this year.

Great post. Bannon has in the past expressed his desire to destroy the apparatus of the state. Whether or not Trump knows that or shares the same philosophy doesn’t really matter since he’s been given such free reign. Trump did say that he thought that there were too many federal employees and that he wanted to be…

Ha! You are right...I shouldn’t wish that on anybody. She just gives off this sense of generic wholesomeness that I associate with the Mormons I grew up with.

I know! I read it back hours later when it was far too late to change but thought it was a kind of perfect auto correct error.

Everything you said is true. Also, I’ve been irked by her since long before they split (perhaps even before they got together). For all I know she could be a hard partying super freak who is into suspension hooks and pony play but she really just seems like she should be married to one of Mitt Romney’s sons.

It is entirely possible that the drinking and the cheating are linked. People do things when they drink that the wouldn’t when they were sober. They probably still THINK about those things, but a sober mind can exercise some impulse control.

Not that we have any way of know which is true and which is not but I read a blind item that was very clearly about Ben and Jen. It said that they have not called off the divorce but they are not moving forward because they are working on things. His absence before and after the Oscars (in the blind item it mentioned…

I fear that you are right that it could only be done away with via some sort of extreme circumstances. I hope that it is sooner than 20 years and that it doesn’t take down the country as a whole. There seemed to be maybe a little bit of precedent developing with the Obama administration phasing out for profit prisons…

Maybe they should. But regardless, people within the party having a favorite isn’t the same thing as stealing the nomination. As you say, he lost by quite a bit.

Right? By no measure did Bernie “rightfully” win. He lost. Was the Democratic Party maybe a bit more zelous for Hillary? Probably so...and the reason for that is because Bernie was not a Democrat. Strangely, the Democratic Party wanted a Democrat to lead it’s party.

Exactly. There are always going to be unintended and unforeseen consequences. We can’t “fix” history. And you are so, so right...there is nothing short of full revolution that is going to give us the healthcare system that other Western countries have. Private insurance groups and other very powerful lobbyists will…

The DNC simply wasn’t going to let Bernie be the candidate even though he rightfully won the honor.

You are absolutely right. Unfortunately, I don’t think there is any way in hell to get rid of private insurance companies and for-profit healthcare in this country. I think that this might be a very good use for a theoretical time machine. Everyone always wants to go back and kill baby Hitler but I would go back to…

YES!!!!!!!! That is exactly it.

That is the perfect descriptor.

Constantly feeling like shit vs. being told what to do by Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner. That really is a horrible choice!

I completely understand your story. It could easily have been my own. I suffer from chronic pain issues that destroyed my 20's. I am a smart person but it took me ten years to get my BA. Had I not had an amazing husband (then boyfriend) who was willing and able to support me both emotionally and financially, I don’t…

There must be something big to counter his horrible personality and face.

Yeah, the success of the Medicaid expansion is the thing that might save us from a disaster. People may hate it in theory but there were just too many people who gained coverage from that one part of the ACA.

It just makes sense that a person who expresses such a love for big lashes that she gets semi-permanent lash extensions would and who in her quest for full lips talks about her love for the lip tingle in plumpers might also seek a more extreme method of lip plumping. If she didn’t, then she needs to thank whoever or…