Part of our collective problem is that when anyone mentions the word election, the immediate reaction is president. We should be thinking about local elections FIRST. Those are the people you can call and meet with on a daily basis, if necessary. Those are the elections where your vote will actually make a difference.…

The whole world seems to be going nuts. It seems like we’ve lost our humanity and have stopped caring full stop. And as someone who lives in a red state who knows my choices at the local and state level are always going to be centrist democrats who are too conservative for me, your friends are part of the problem. I…

If her quackery harms Black Americans with disabilities or chronic illnesses I don’t want her. 

Like Delaney, the way she interacts with the legitimate candidates really bothers me. She so clearly has these speeches in her back pocket that she trots out at the slightest of openings. Fuck her for deriding “wonkiness” as a part of problem solving when she would have no fucking clue what to do if actually left in…

Nope to all these pieces today (at this family of sites and others) fawning over her for saying the bare minimum truths that progressives share in meme form on FB. Not to mention that the majority of her “points” have already been made by the top two progressives on the stage (barring the reparations commentary).

She did surprisingly well on that note. But her closing speech reminded me of an evangelical preacher catching the Holy Ghost and speaking in tongues. Is holding hands and singing Kumbaya the balm to Nazis with tiki torches? I don’t think so. The need to believe is understandable.

Those 38 times are only the ones where it ended in death.

Every time this discussion happens, the superb WaPo article is mentioned, and like clockwork there is a subset of commenters who think their brains are just simply wired better that the rest of us.

I think the general idea of the article is that no one is to blame, except maybe car manufacturers who won’t add warning systems in. Furthermore, while the person maybe the cause of their babies death that does not mean that we can blame them, blame requires the moral standing to hold the person responsible and I just…

Yeah, he is already clearly in hell, obviously didn’t mean to do this, his kids are dead, what would be the point of prosecuting this? You aren’t protecting society, you’re just punishing someone who is already being punished.

I think you’re equating blame with cause/responsibility. They are two different things. Figuring out cause/responsibilities absolutely can help figure out what went wrong and how to avoid it, but blame is not an essential component of that equation. 

Read the WaPo article Tracy linked in this article and come back if you have more questions.

I’m a new first-time mom with serious “baby brain” brought on by hormonal shifts and sleep deprivation. I also have an irregular schedule. I work from home two days a week (with a babysitter) and go into the office three days, but on one day family watches the baby and on the other two he goes to daycare. I’m pretty…

I have more than once got on or almost got on the highway I take to work when running errands on the weekend. When I get to one particular light my brain defaults to “going to work” and takes over. For the past 3 weeks of taking my daughter to her new swim lessons I’ve driven through an other light I need to turn at…

The commenters here who think a parent who has had their child die tragically somehow needs to be held more accountable baffle me. I can think of no worse thing than losing my child. People have no empathy anymore.

This is a fairly new feature on GM cars & trucks. If you have opened the back door before you first drive off, it activates the warning when you stop and shut the car off. Has nothing to do with temperature to my knowledge.

It really doesn’t. I’ve had my car for a year and a half now and it gives me both an audio and visual cue to check the backseat everytime the back door has been opened when I shut of the car. I still look in the backseat every time. And, my kids are 9 and 10 so even if I forgot them, they could simply open the door…

This would never happen to me.

Given my job, it’s not hard to guess where I stand. I think this is a clear-cut case of the world wanting to hold somebody responsible for a tragedy, whether it’s just or not. What punishment could be worse for this man than what has happened? This is not an intentional act. This is a horrible tragedy, and while…

I’ve been driving a rental for the past week while my car is in the shop and the only thing Hertz had was a full size GMC pickup truck. (Which is fun to drive, esp. not having to pay for gas for long.) It makes loud noises about half the times I turn it off, always when leaving it in hot sun, and flashes a message on…