Word. I’m torn between pity and anger at my mom. Pity because she came from some truly horrible circumstances (her own mom was raised by relatives after her parents’ untimely deaths and grew up to be undiagnosed mentally ill with many suicide attempts and substance abuse issues that her children were forced to…

Why not both?

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…

I invited my racist step mother to my wedding (to an Indian man) and was super freaked out that she would say something horribly offensive to someone in my husband’s family (I’ve heard her call taxi drivers ‘dot heads’ on more than one occasion). A week before my wedding she fell and tore her patella, meaning she…

As far as I’m concerned, you don’t owe your parents anything unless they’ve earned it. [Wanted] children are a gift and you should treat them like one or, as Alex and Alyssa say in the linked invitation, you can suck it.

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,…

Girlfriend and I are expecting to get married in the next couple years (yes we’ve talked about it, I just haven’t proposed yet). And both of our stance on it is sort of:

Tsk, tsk. Everyone knows leaving your gun outside is like eating waffles with a side of emasculation.

So bets on what Canadian sex act it was on the video? Princess Alberta? Cariboukakke?

But Pope is super popular. And she’s an attention whore. So pretty much.... Total sense.

(the tagline of which is “Putting sweet D in the tender V since 2013”)

Baby Schumer.

I just want to say that I love Regina King. Love her in everything she’s ever been in (the best part of Southland, for instance), and I’m thrilled she won for supporting actress in a drama.

I am 30 today. I’ve decided my birthday resolution is to be Helen Mirren.

I almost got into an all out brawl with my ignorant sister-in-law about this. We were out for dinner and a gay male couple were kissing at a nearby table. She starts stage whispering “I’m not homophobic but there are KIDS here”. To which I replied “You are the definition of homophobia”. A great battle ensued, the…

Two points to consider. One, all the money (if any, because those funding sites are getting wise to this) this bigot gets will come from other bigots, reducing the total bigot rainy day fund. Two, if they do retire in luxury that means they won’t be bothering the rest of us decent folk.

I think he had an intent.

Another argument to add to those who’ve already replied: Some jobs don’t need to be paid a living wage! They’re held by teens / retirees / ex-house-spouses / college students looking for a few extra bucks!

I remember a Republican representative said that he supported a minimum wage hike because it would get people off of social programs that they currently to pay for food and housing. I wouldn’t mind my tax dollars going towards other things like repairing our nation’s failing infrastructure.

Regardless, if your business doesn’t make enough money to pay your employees a living wage, then it is not a very good business, and deserves to go broke.