I'll be placing a strongly-worded call once my work shift is over.

Yeah, our private practitioner when I was growing up was super fundie, and ugh, the things he would say to me as warnings when prescribing me birth control (because of other medicine I was taking) were just awful and straight-up untrue. But, nope, mom loves him because he believes in "miracles" too when she brings…

Damn straight! Born & almost-completely raised here in Texas, and I've said for the longest time that my PROUDLY Liberal ass is staying and voting every chance I get, making sure that I'm heard, and giving the Republican asshats that end up somehow representing me a piece of my mind every time they send me an…

Ann's reign was brief but beautiful. I was a preteen and thankfully went through sex ed when she had better-than-abstinence-only courses being taught, and my school years were improved by her focus on education in general. It was right about the time I actually started paying attention to politics and what these…

Awesome - and it looks like there was a particularly thick grouping of folks in front of Ann's portrait, which makes me even more happy and weepy. (I love Ann SO MUCH.)

I was leaning toward "Wormtongue's long-lost great-great-great-great-granddaughter," personally.

I always thought of Ft Worth as a step-sister, but she's secretly better than Dallas anyway. ;D

Yeah, those Republican asshats hate coming here for a couple months every two years. I do my best to not be nice to them if I can.

What she continually is standing up for, and so strongly, just keeps reminding me of Ann - and I've been saying that we need a new Ann in this state since she passed. Long live Wendy, may her influence and awesomeness continue to affect positive change!

I clapped and yelled "Oh snap! He just got TOLD!", which echoed loudly through my little North Austin place & woke up my sick boyfriend.

Yeah, but that second time he "won" with a tiny bit more than 30% of the vote, because our state won't have a runoff system until a Dem gets in office with less-than-50%. Goddamn Texas GOP.

That might be the best description of it (at least when it comes to the fundie branch of the Southern Baptist Church I was raised in) that I've ever heard. In far more ways than I care to explain or remember.

Pardon me, I just need to breathe a moment after all that ROFLing.

My mom's been going on about The End Of The World since I was 12, and she still won't answer this question when I bring it up to her. Same thing goes for my "Why should I start a family? Why should I buy a house? Why should I save for retirement if the End Times are just going to come along anyway?"

NOM Facebook page freakouts, you say? Please tell me there are people trolling them, because if so...

Yeah, any small girl who is willing to go that hard on the rock scale and name songs things like "Zombie Skin" only fuels my ovaries' ever-increasing demands to be used.

No, I don't mean maliciously cruel. I meant "Oh! The feels!" "cruel." If they ever win, then that switches to "awesome" instantaneously. Totally my feelings here, not the ad itself.

Per the Texas Tribune Live Blog:

Yeah, "shady motherfuckers" could be the best description of the Texas GOP that ever was. They've been that way as long as I've been paying attention, and surprise-surprise, they still are today.

Any word on WTF just happened there? All my satellite-based clocks said 12:02, but it sounded like they were standing up at the podium voting.