This is the country we live in now, paying it forward to first responders for the next mass shooting from the responders in the “past”.......six months in the past. This. Is. America. Now. The gun nuts have taken over and all sense and reason is gone.

You cannot really have misunderstood this.

It’s sad that the frequency of mass shootings has created this tradition among hospitals. No one is criticing the solidarity or camaraderie.

Yesterday’s tragedy was in my hometown. Suffice it to say that my level of rage that gun violence occurs so frequently, and is so seemingly acceptable to a large proportion of the U.S. population, is palpable today.

I cry over pizza all the time. Especially as I eat it over the sink while drinking a handle of bourbon straight from the bottle.

I NEVER THOUGHT PAYING IT FORWARD PIZZA WOULD MAKE ME CRY SAD TEARS BUT HERE I AM, CRYING. OVER PIZZA GENEROSITY, THE KINDEST GENEROSITY OF ALL.

Yea, my sister and I are estranged from my father and when my sister got married, his new wife had the nerve to throw a hissy fit, demanding to know why he wasn’t asked to walk her down the aisle. We basically laughed in her face and were like, “You guys aren’t even invited. This wedding is for people who love and…

Thank you. One of my closest friends is estranged from her mom. Seeing how happy and successful she is (compared to how fucked up her life was when her mom was still in it) should be enough proof that not everyone should be close to their family. I myself had some terrifying encounters with her mom (and the man she…

actually “because they’re black” is why the noise rules were momentarily applied. the rule is supporsed to be ignored for “our kind of people”.

Several white passengers back up the black women’s stories and saying that there were rude, obnoxious white people but they weren’t kicked off the train.

Oooh I read about this when it first happened. I hope they get enough from the court case to have the best wine tour ever.

When we were planning our wedding, my mom told me that if I invited my bio-dad, she wouldn’t come. As if I’d invite the guy who beat the crap out of her and held a gun to her head. Then my bio-dad, who I had recently reestablished a relationship with, said if I invited my mom, he wouldn’t come. As if he deserved to…

I never get tired of this subject. (Not even just weddings, but cutting bad relatives out of our lives.) Out and about in in the world estranged adults of awful parents don’t have a lot of positive opportunities to talk about the estrangement, and it is so freeing to be able to be honest with our friends, coworkers,…

His parents. Seriously.

Jesus Christ, who the fuck even does that.

I only WISH we’d excluded my husband’s parents from our wedding. Just as we were saying our “I do”s, his dad jumped up out of his seat, shouted “F—- this!”, and stormed out of the room, dragging his wife behind him.

My boyfriend’s mother is absolutely the most toxic person I’ve ever met and through years of therapy he’s been able to put the past behind him and treat her more like an acquaintance than a parent. But I know that if we were to get married and we didn’t invite her, it would send a ripple... no, maybe a tsunami...…

We don’t do the whole fundie Christian thing very well down here. Nobody in the government or anywhere else wanted him here so he was told he wasn’t allowed into Australia and his visa was denied.

Or, to quote Fr. Jim Martin (formerly The Colbert’s Report go-to God guide):