That pastor seems.....surprisingly level-headed and rational. That was a nice surprise.

I guarantee it is corporate housing. Oilfield guys often get a furnished apartment that their employer pays for.

yeah, question sir(s?): wtf are you talking about sharing coco on cold snowy days? i know you say you're in texas, but...have you been to texas?

I think— and I'm guilty of this myself— that sometimes we want to ascribe bad behavior to mental illness because it's the lesser of two evils. In the case of UCSB, I freely admit that I took a while to openly accept that he was just a misogynistic assbucket because that's how it's usually presented early in media.

I like how this terrible, terrible person must clearly be fat. Because people are fat because they are lazy and greedy and abusive to their children. Seriously, though, how is the weight of the wife or the father relevant here? The daughter wasn't starved because he ate all the food he would otherwise feed her. I…

Whether or not Janay Rice chooses to remain in this relationship is irrelevant. People stay in abusive relationships for all sorts of reasons. She can make that choice. It's not really about her at this point. If the NFL accepts a player who is videotaped beating his wife unconscious, it is sending a strong…

It breaks my heart that she thinks that being arrested is proof of her wrongdoing, or of her being complicit in her own assault. That she thinks being "suggested" to apologize was justified by her being complicit. Janay, nothing you could have possibly done justifies your being knocked unconscious and dragged out of…

Jesus H CHRIST - there is a lot of work going to defend the guy who knocked his wife unconscious on an elevator.

Waiter, *angrily*: "Well, maybe I will come to your country then. And eat all of your bread!"

When my two daughters were in elementary school, I took them to the local fast-food place to buy them an Arctic Rush. (It's like a Slurpee) My younger daughter ordered a blue raspberry Arctic Rush, and my older daughter ordered an orange one.

Nope, my sister attends Norman High and I graduated there in 2011. Students are genuinely pissed about the handling of this situation. Some of the protesters are recent alumni like myself and a few of them are other adult members of the Norman community, but most of them are current Norman High students who are…

I'm in the Panhandle. It's beautiful, and I love it, but, after almost two years I am still shocked by the racism and/or sexism, on an almost daily basis. The two things are expressed very differently, though. Racist comments are open and hostile. The sexism mainly takes place in the form of lowered expectations,…

Knitting is awesome, though, and I highly recommend learning. Once you learn, it's very relaxing and comforting.

Actually, I've always heard that the word ho came about because a general in the Civil War named Ho/Hoe/Etc. was famous for having a band of prostitutes following his army wherever it went. They became derogatorily called "Ho's Army." Your version makes also sense, though, and I'm pretty sure the last time I heard…

That Hoe Over There refers to a gardening impliment. I fully approve of this term.

I'm so proud of these young people.

This is awesome! I wish I could be there with them so they know many more people believe them and support them.

As a Winnipeger, birthplace of Winnie the Pooh, I can confidently say that no. Christopher Robin has no friends. Christopher Robin is actually AA Milne's son (Christopher Robin Milne). And Winnie the Pooh was actually a bear named Winnipeg. Christopher Robin Milne was so enamoured by this bear that he named his…

Maybe Camille Cosby is standing by Bill for a reason entirely different than one considered out here. Maybe she believes him. Not because it's rational, but because it's easier to believe the word of a person you know and love than it is to believe the word of a stranger, or 15.

There are so many possible versions of what could be happening here. Including an abuse dynamic (I mean, I don't have a lot of hope that a serial rapist's primary relationship is terribly healthy), including stuff going down between them that we could never guess at. And yes, she could feel stuck... this whole line…