If only it wasn't such a very long hate read.

Left Hand of Darkness. I slogged through it because I wanted to impress my new boyfriend and he liked it. Hated every minute of it. Then I got to the last page and suddenly I just 'got' it. I went back to the beginning and started reading it again immediately.

Yeah, we like the same razor so we just share. It's not cheapness, it's lazy. And I will admit I have no idea which toothbrush is mine and which is his. We stick our tongues in each others mouths every day, I don't really worry about it. I suspect this might be a bit of an 'old marrieds' dividing line.

And of course Head Start is also shut down, leaving already vulnerable families without childcare.

Humans explore, we need it like air. We need to feel like we're constantly expanding. Our need to continually find out more, push the boundaries, discover is the engine of progress. NASA is about this need and it fulfills that ache for the many who only experience exploration vicariously. It represents our focus on…

Zing!

There was no need for you to take that tone, you could have easily provided the information in a helpful way. Getting upset about firearm identification just makes you seem like an unhinged gun nut. I'm not familiar with you as a commenter, but I certainly would appreciate a more civil tone. The writers at io9 are…

But I want to keep believing it won't take off here. Shhhhhhhhh.

My husband jokes that he must come from the milk man because he looks nothing like his father but all of his full siblings look just like their dad. However, Mr. Downing looks a great deal like his half-brother (same mother, different father). I asked him once if he really thought he wasn't his father's and he said he…

Yeah, I can't either. But it's entertaining either way!

You are a good spouse. I would take that route too, as would my husband. Once you have kids you just don't get to be selfish any longer, and Walt was very, very selfish.

You just aren't pure enough in your intellectualism to understand her. I would be laughing very boisterously were this in person, as I know I couldn't have said that with a straight face.

No worries!

That's just so awful. There is this amazing medication that would really help and I wonder how it would play out in this situation. It's just wrong that suboxone would change lives and yet it's not advertised or distributed.

That is messed up. We really (as a country) have no real interest in helping anyone, do we?

I love this one!

God Monkey Robot by The Apparitions. This is my get up and go, greet the day song.

Very true, and I totally get wanting to wrap your head in oblivion. I just wonder, given that krokodile is such a terrifying and grotesque road that having a way out from the terrible withdrawal might provide an addict with a way out. I mean, dayum, krokodile is one hell of a rock bottom.

That is wise.

I completely agree regarding escapism. I think the addiction = disease model will one day be looked upon as quackery. You have to help an addict learn how to deal with their emotions and and the trauma that brought them so low.