I figure I fall into the “Presidential Assassin” category more.

Yeah, it’s always fun to look at a list of serial killer traits, then your own life, and feel vaguely worried for your future.

Doesn’t everyone have one of those coworkers?

The fundamentalist LDS followers call this “being sweet”, and they encourage women to always “be sweet”.

This explains so much. Where I live, fundamentalism is not common at all. But I’ve noticed a similar kind of thing with some very religious acquaintances. Happy smiling all the time, soft-spoken and ultra feminine always, everything is love and blessed. Facebook posts of a painting featuring Santa Claus and Jesus in…

Yeah. I just...yeah. I’m so glad I was born to the parents I had who let me rage out when I needed, cry when necessary, be happy for joyous events and grow up learning how to manage the range of emotions that happen in this here life thing.

I wish I could say this was uncommon. But growing up in fundamentalism, we were taught that the only acceptable emotion was happy and blessed. You weren’t allowed to be angry or sad or disappointed. I wasn’t in a cult like this (Thank the Lord,) but what I was taught wasn’t so different. I actually had to learn how to…

I agree, but again that’s back to his upbringing. He grew up in a culture that considers men to be wicked sex maniacs who can’t help but take any opportunity offered. In an act of self-interest, he takes the “out” that is provided to him - that it was “sin” and “temptation” that drove him to it. And again as an adult,…

I think no snark is the appropriate response. This shit is so sad. And it has to be looked at through the lens of the cult. She was raised in a cult, she has lived in one her whole life. She is quite literally brain washed. It breaks my heart. It is so difficult to get away from any cult, much less one that you've…

It’s sad that your comment makes me realize at least she’ll get a six month break from pregnancy to heal both emotionally and physically.

I think he definitely needs treatment! But it needs to be cognitive behavioral therapy so that he can learn to actually empathize with others and take responsibility for his own actions. “Sin” and “temptation” are not to blame for him molesting those little girls or for his extramarital affairs: only he is to blame…

“They always got 15-minute, one-on-one sessions with their mom every week. That was the time to share their feelings, but other than that they had to keep their feelings to themselves.”

Someone asked me if I thought he really had a sex addiction, and I said, “no...I think he’s a human.”

Maybe I’m rusty from being away for so long, but I have no snark for her. I legitimately feel sorry for her. To feel so trapped that you can’t leave your husband after you find out he’s molested 5 little girls, most being his sisters, is a horror I could never imagine. His infidelity is just the sick cherry on top of…

As much as I can’t stand this guy, he doesn’t need “treatment”. This is what happens sometimes when your family expects you to fulfill a role that is perhaps not what you want for your life. This guy ISN’T about family values, being married etc. And that’s fine. But the pressure of his family and church’s expectations…

Based on your three things they get right, at least one of my coworkers is a serial killer.

my son i know from experience that there is good kinja and great kinja and i’ve got to say this kinja is some great-ass kinja

Ban all guns. Make them illegal to posses. Getting caught with one is an automatic jail sentence. This nonsense has gone on for too long. This amendment was authored by people who were okay with slavery. It does not, and should not, translate to 2015 America

They are almost certainly fine. But if they ever kill a bird in a spectacular fashion, or fall into the toilet after you’ve let the yellow mellow, or come down with a case of fleas that won’t respond to the usual treatments, or refuse to back down from a skunk encounter, or get old and are too fat/arthritic to clean…

I love the noises cats make when bathed.