“All lives matter - especially mine, first. After I’m comfortable and pampered, we can talk. But you’d better pull yourself up by those bootstraps - even if you have no footwear at all.”

So true. I live in San Diego, which has always been a conservative spot at the bottom of San Diego due to the military. Yesterday, local news station decided to cover “the debate” and discuss “both sides.” It’s not a debate. It’s science vs. idiots who want to kill us all because of freedumb. Giving them any airtime…

The problem is that Americans as a whole have a weird obsession with hiding behind the notion of “freedom.” They think that it means they can interpret that however they want regardless of whether it’s true or not. But in the case of this it’s only when things are inconvenient to them.

And all lives matter. Until they’re expected to treat all lives like they actually matter.

There are an alarming number of nurses who go into the field just because compared to other choices, it pays them okay, not because they have an inherent desire to care for people. And of those, many just scrape through. There’s no implicit assurance of broad intelligence. I understand that at this time we’re all here…

One of the scariest aspects of this nightmare is realizing that intelligence, training and education can’t save you from bad thinking if the right temptation comes along.

I work in a medical office as clinical staff and I sometimes just can’t believe the conspiracy theories being thrown around the break room by the nursing staff

The internet was a mistake. 

There are an alarming number of nurses buying into crazy conspiracy theories about COVID-19, or who are dismissing it as no big deal. This shit has very real consequences.

Gillian Darmondy played by Gretchen Mol. Won the pageant, was immediately trafficked to The Commodore, impregnated, became his mistress, then a showgirl, then a Madame, then a heroin addict.

Heck go full out: Look at Elizabeth Holmes and the scam of Theranos. Literally tried to coast of the grift and power that got her by looking competent while simultaneously pushing around bullshit lies and a system that never worked properly.

Yeah, but the problem is that assholes tend to look at their own successes and attribute it to their personality, because that’s the asshole thing to do. For every one Steve Jobs that manages to be an asshole but also a genius with uncanny instincts, you have a thousand hacks who like to think of themselves as the…

That is some Lovecraftian ‘And The Crops Will Not Fail’ weirdness right there, but... racist?  I’m confused.

They say the way to get rich is to find a need and fill it, and she obviously has done that. I think her rise coincided with my kids getting to the age where they were more self-sufficient and I didn’t have the need for a day planner any longer. I think this also illustrates a dividing line between the sexes. I can’t…

I’ve never been a proper planner, but I WAS an intense to-do-lister for years, with apps, and recurring tasks, merging my private life and work life goals into one massive daily list. I never had a day off from the list. 

Erin Condren aside, why so dismissive about “the planner community”? For people like me, a single mother with a full time job and several side projects to try to make ends meet, having a written down schedule is completely crucial. And I also use my Passion Planner (check them out as a very good alternative to…

I would like to gently push back on the idea that the writer’s friend was necessarily all that progressive. Some “liberals” are people who are more enamored with an inner narrative where they are persecuted, brave truth-tellers who stand against the idiot mob, than they are of really walking the talk of progressive…

Yeah, so many weird things people take for doping that are otherwise innocuous, or at least have legitimate uses. I think a bunch of fertility drugs are also used to balance out the anabolic steroid cycles. 

It inhibits gynecomastia, reduced sperm production, and other “feminizing” effects of heavy long-term steroid use.

Colonial Broad is a top-rated diss. It is classy yet scathing.