While I wholeheartedly agree that we SHOULD have universal single payer healthcare, I just cannot get on any ACA repeal bandwagon.

“I was trying to explain that all hospitals are required by law to treat patients in need of emergency care regardless of their ability to pay and that the Republican plan does not change that,”

I’ve been thinking a LOT about this lately (and when I say “lately”, I’m talking heavy rumination on and off for about 5 years). Anyhow, an idea has formed and keeps taking shape, but it’s this: our current culture (especially the last 20 years, i.e. the internet/tabloid years) is obsessed with attainment. I’m not…

I read an article a while ago, the title was something like “What if all I want is a mediocre life?” The woman who wrote it talked about how she is content, but seems to be surrounded by people who are always striving for something more.

I was thinking about this same thing earlier this week - I started a new job recently and it’s fine but the main reason I changed jobs at all was to get health insurance. I have basically no career ambition. Sometimes I think maybe I’m in the wrong field but I can’t think of one that would be much better. For me,…

Right there with you, with the added (shitty) surprise that I thought that when I became an adult I’d be super goal-oriented - I was a massive overachiever at school and had high hopes for myself... And then... Meh.

Are you goal oriented? I think I figured out that the reason that I’m frequently jealous of other people’s successes isn’t because I want to be pregnant, get married, write a book, etc., but because I envy their ability to set a goal and then achieve it. I own a house and I have a job. But I don’t really have any…

I posted this is in the initial AHCA post, but there were 600+ comments so I’m sure it got lost. I just wanted to share my experience today in DC because it was so utterly sickening:

The reason no one mentions the dead man’s crimes is that they are irrelevant to the way he was treated while in custody. 

I have said this before and it never stops being true: Donnie sounds like someone trying to have a serious conversation on a ball of cocaine. I really can’t listen to him talk, and when I read the shit he said, he sounds like a puppy that has too many shiny objects and noise makers around it.

Not enough of a fuss has been made about Ivanka going to Berlin for the W20 summit. She has no qualifications to work in policy, international law or norms, diplomacy, or women’s rights. She has no reason to be the representative for our country, other than being the daughter of the president. She is not a fucking…

I think there’s a difference here between Alex Jones and say, Roman Polanski (and this isn’t a commentary on whether I think we can separate the art from the man in that instance, just where the difference lies). Roman Polanski (or Woody Allen, or Mel Gibson, or hell, Chris Brown or Bill Cosby) made a thing that’s…

Meanwhile, at today’s meeting on feline health care.

Should no better and no brainer. 13 year olds aren’t known for their stellar impulse control. Not to mention the need to look like a bad ass to all their friends, which never brings out the best in anyone much less teenagers.

I’m really trying to think of all the dumbass things I was up to at that age...granted, none of them involved guns, but looking back plenty of them could have gotten me killed.

I agree with a lot of what’s you’re saying, especialy the chick lit and pink covers. But I wonder if that’s the slippery slope that men’s decisions take us down - like male shareholders and executives, etc. Because you said it right on your comment: we understand men’s stories because we have had to. Men don’t have to …

So accepted statistics on rape and false reports are “extreme terms,” then?

This comment is stunning. You genuinely think there should be MORE disincentives against reporting rape? You genuinely believe that all rapes get reported, that women have no issues reporting rape, that police officers treat every allegation of sexual assault seriously and bother to investigate it, and that the real…

Because Ivanka has specifically positioned herself as a moderating influence to her father, as the “neutral” advocate for women whose goal is to bring her father around to a “better” position.