Oh yes! Jane also has several stories about how she “really gave it to someone who dared to hold the door open for her when she was on crutches that one time.” She isn’t even playfully rude. 

I agree with all you’ve said. The confusing thing is that mostly none of these now ex-friends were like that when we first became friends - it always creeps up.

Agreed. I’ve brought this up before, but for some reason the scenes in the novel Jane Eyre where she has to go back to her horrible aunt’s house because she’s dying post-stroke have really resonated with me lately.

So well  said!

Lumps in the breast can be caused by hormonal changes in the body; they can occur during a menstrual cycle, even with young women; I had one when I was about your age. Many lumps are not cancer; many are cysts and go away on their own. You have to have it checked out, asap, if only for your own peace of mind, but it…

Collins is correct. He did learn a lesson. And the lesson he learned is that he can do whatever the fuck he wants and his base and republicans in the house will support it.

Ah, the Bachman approach to decision making.

He not only fired Vindman, but his brother as well. So, thanks republicans.

YES to every word of this. The man is a POS

The guy that was actively smoking cigars while mocking Michael J. Fox’s disease and saying out how billions of gallon oil spewing into the ocean isn’t that big of a deal got cancer... Hollywood ending.

That last paragraph. A-FUCKING-MEN.

I think that’s why Dump, Circus Ringmaster of Hell, did this--beyond the appeal to his base during that horrific speech, of course. Limbaugh paved the way for him and he wanted in on one last extinction burst of filthy approval from the choads who long only to hear how much they are oppressed.

The Medal of Even More Freedom.

Create a new award that’s higher than the medal of freedom.

My parents too, I hate how I’m slightly sad over the news, because Rush was just such a big part of my upbringing. He fed into my dad’s outrages, insecurities, feelings of unearned superiority and entitlement to be as rude as he wanted. I thankfully didn’t hold his worldviews as an adult, but it took a while to…

And this, friends, has been the person who provided the seeding for today’s extremist right wing. Not Fox News. Limbaugh has been on the air for over thirty years and the summation above is totally on point - he has spent four hours a day, every weekday on AM radio stations across the country, sputtering on about any…

I’m so with you re: the black wreath on the door. A few years ago when I was mired in some pretty deep grief, I wanted nothing more than to wear a black armband all day, that way people might see it and understand why I was a walking zombie. The world keeps turning and you’ve got to get back to your life after all of…

I’m so sorry. I think as hard as a lengthy illness is, a sudden passing leaves you in shock as well as grief.

I am so sorry for your loss. 

Hey internet strangers. I mostly lurk here, but I need to tell the void my dad died on Wednesday because of the flu. He typed an email to a friend at 4:30 on Tuesday that he wasn’t feeling good and he was gone at 5:30 am Wednesday.