People have this idea that the U.S. can intervene for humanitarian reasons in other countries’ conflicts without (1) the appearance of illegitimacy or partiality or (2) losing American lives. Let’s be clear: intervene or abstain, SOMEONE is always going to be mad, both domestically and abroad, and humanitarian…

I agree. It is a lot of style over substance stuff (hey look where that got us!!!) and his infuriating need to have everyone like him. His lack of backbone in his second term has been tragic, and Syria is the worst of it. A lot of it is the utterly recalcitrant Republican assholes in congress, but he bears some of the…

thank you. I felt lately here I’ve been taking crazy pills. So many people here are acting like: why do we get Trump after Obama cured cancer, walked on water, and was friends with Beyonce; it often renders me speechless.

The people in Aleppo are surrounded. They have been since before we accepted any Syrian refugees. I’m not exactly sure how racist white people kept them encircled by Assad and Russia forces.

“We need to protect our clients and their minor children, so let’s release our email correspondence to the public.”

The Brad and Angelina divorce drama is not the kind of celebrity gossip I salivate over. It’s sooooo depressing and a little boring. Can we drop them down a little lower in dirt bag?!?!

I just want to use this opportunity to point out, again, that Voter Fraud And Election Rigging Is Extremely Extremely Rare.

I hope all your electronics were ethically sourced. They haven’t made a movie about conflict minerals starring Leo and a black guy yet tho.

It sucks because I am a big fan of Angelina and the humanitarian work she does but her attorney’s ties to that scumbag Harvey Levin makes me sick. I do family law and her bullshit of wanting the records sealed but only if he complies completely with her is emotional blackmail and bullshit. He does not have to comply…

Sunday Roast is fucking hysterical. Not sure if was an intentional typo, but it is the first out loud laugh I’ve had in a long while.

Not to minimize what you’re trying to say here, but Naomi Judd didn’t make it in music until she was in her 40s. She has written about her days of struggling in many shit jobs as a single mom, struggling just to pay the rent and feed her children, and of living in a battered women’s shelter with the girls for a time.…

I agree. A rare piece of self help advice I found useful: “Comparisons of pain are simply not useful.” I got an especially twisted lesson in this when, one Christmas in the 90s, my father gave me a copy of that horrible book, A Child Called It, telling me, “Since you seem to think you had it so rough- here’s a kid who…

I deal with mental illness. Amongst other things, at its worst my agorophobia can keep me housebound and unwashed for longer than I’d care to admit.

if their talking about health in a public forum I think they have a responsibility to address that.

She wasn’t famous until she was like 40, though. Before that she was raising two daughters by herself on a shoestring, from what I understand. So it’s not that she has nothing to which she can compare her current circumstances. So she can talk about her present difficulties with the perspective of having had other…

but fuck they never say anything like “i couldn’t imagine what i’m going through and having to get up every day and go to a shit job and make rent at the same time.”

In a hot car? At the very least, the child probably defecated as he died. The car was raging hot and enclosed. No smell at all? I find that hard to believe.

Presumably your cats don’t wake you up every ninety minutes and scream for thirty minutes for an entire year. Exhaustion like that is how you forget your baby in the backseat.

I actually respect you immensely for having that attitude.

Maybe people will hate me for saying this, but as much as I hate Trump, I find no joy in being on the “I told you so committee.” These people are honest Americans who were driven to a tough situation when both sides failed to make a concerted effort to help them. “In their desperation they turned to a man who they…