i am so happy my stepdad is union and actually was able to retire with a pension, etc. it seems to me that everyone who throws shade on pensions and companies taking care of former employees are, FUNNILY ENOUGH, in positions that either are paid OBSCENE amounts, OR HAVE PENSIONS.

He was in the foster care system for the first two years of his life until he began living with his grandmother.

You had me until the Michael Sam thing, which seems incredibly out of place. Or just down right homophobic (your choice).

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Really awesome store that buys and sells all video games from new to super retro. Many locations in Texas or you can buy online.

instead of talking about how fucked up this is in so many ways, or about the prevalence of plastic surgery in sk, i will talk about something more important, like how my new life goal is to have this sentence be written again, sometime in the future, about me:

Its not a coincidence that the cops started cracking down tonight. They knew the autopsy report was going to drop and this is a great way to both distract from it and use the few protesters seeking confrontations as a way to build support for the police and their actions. The cops may be heavy handed and just plain…

I read about this yesterday, and despite all the awful things floating around on the internet right now, I won't deny that this made my day.

Yeah I think that's part of the problem. He lets out steam on the net because he can't release IRL. I don't care what people say, but couples who don't fight are suspicious as hell.

In our 9-year relationship, we've fought three times total.

I grew up in a missionary family - even did a short term mission myself once as a teenager. My mother does missionary work in Kenya. I'm... not really surprised. I mean... this guy is a monster, totally. But to be honest, missionaries creep me the fuck out. It's like they have to go halfway across the world to find…

One subtle thing that occurred to me recently about Obama's presidency is that he is (at least partially) the product of a single-parent childhood. This may seem like a minor barrier to cross in comparison to his race, but as the only child of a single mother, to me it seems like an important detail. I never really…

That is the best idea for a comic book ever. We need a kickstarter for this.

Points to Gatto for not using her prominence for something other than anti-abortion advocacy

If male nurses get so distracted by the female body, they may wish to reconsider their chosen profession...

I was at FanimeCon and I would like to donate this image to the lovely readers of Kotaku :D

They coulda made a donation to the Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation for Sensitivity to Orientals or Whatever, but i heard it got shut down.

Think Geek's prank was really cruel. Its plausible and I want it.

No love for thinkgeek.com's annual april fools products?