Not... really. Things are very tentative, but we’re planning for the future on the basis of hope. Relations can’t get better between us under our current circumstances, but now everyone is being more honest about it and his mother isn’t shit-stirring. I guess the short answer is yes, but nothing significant has really…

I will say, a town named Calamity Corners appeals to my inner chaos...

Yes. Where I currently live the police have issued requests for people to not use it unless meeting in very public places, and have even set up “safety zones” designated abandoned parking lots with hours where they keep a squad car parked just in case. There have been several highly publicized murder-schemes and no…

Yeah, my husband is a nurse and will have his practitioner’s cert before we go, and we’ll have a kid in tow, so schools matter (but not colleges at that point). ;D

oof. I *really* don’t want to rely on craigslist since we’ll be bringing a kid less than 10 years old. I’m an adult and thrive on sketchiness, but my nurse husband and kid not so much.

Canadian-Adjacent post! Hooray!

Luck!

No, I’m a Missourian in KC (up north, tho, in Platte Co). I worked for a while for KVC at their Prairie Ridge psych hospital, and a bunch of my friends work in various flavors of social work, so the Kansas Situation is a third of our conversation content anymore. Another third is the Missouri Situation. :/

And Amazon!

At first I was going to make a joke about ‘who among us,' but then I kept reading and holy fuck. What.

Soooooo, my husband and I saw Widows the night before that interview was posted and he and I had to stop the movie to freak out about Neeson eating her face. It was noticeably weird and extra. We had to think for a while if we’d ever even seen him in another kissing scene and we concluded that we haven’t. I am…

That is my fervent hope.

In this case I disagree, as per the original article, these girls were the daughters of their assailant’s house keeper. He did know them outside of his assault. That’s the “he’s pretty familiar” that the judge was referencing. Not that the family was known to the judge.

I love you, Ashley Reese, but nothing on this earth can move me to willingly listen to any Trumpkin’s vocal garbage. Not ONE of them have nice speaking voices generally, and the more passionate they become in their honking and squawking, the less I’m capable of listening without being moved to violence. Soooo many…

I know the KC Star has a paywall, which is infuriating, but it’s worth it to read the entirety of the piece. This Leavenworth county judge not only blamed the girls for their assaults, he also openly questioned whether they were harmed at all by the encounter since they didn’t come to their assailant’s sentencing and…

That is absolutely the way this judge saw it. He completely disregarded this molester’s sexual battery conviction and focused on his ‘intellectual disability,’ to the detriment of those young girls AND justice. An issue that didn’t make it into the Jez piece: the judge questioned the level of harm both girls suffered…

Cool!

I’m sorry if I gave the impression that the gatekeepers were exclusively the purveyors of education. And to your point of the masses rejecting education, I would provide my own personal experience.

Curiosity is one of our most valuable traits. For me, limiting or dissuading a curious mind is tantamount to rape. This tradition we inherited of limiting education to either the nobility, the wealthiest, to the most stable, the most likely to ‘excel’ or are presupposed to further the field... it has only helped to…

Yeah, it’s in the original piece... he puts it in the context of N Ireland’s Troubles and revenge...