If we’d listened to Carter on the environment, we would be in a very different position. Also, the Crisis of Confidence speech. I wish more leaders had the guts to say what he said in that speech and I wish more Americans could hear the truth about our country. He was right.

Prior to Obamacare getting me free birth control, my prescription cost $90 a month WITH insurance. I told me boyfriend about the expense and how difficult it was to get it refilled with Planned Parenthood, who offered it at $30 (they never answered phones or the refill line, it was on the other side of town, they had…

You are right, but I’ve found the Italian green beans actually hold up. They’re the only veggie I’ve found so far that don’t get mushy or soggy. We cook them in the bag in the microwave and poor them in a bowl with a little butter and it doesn’t seem so different from fresh. Only the Italian green beans hold up—I…

We tend to make similar foods every week, or make new foods out of the same pantry staples. When I work late my husband cooks up beans and rice or tacos using a bag of frozen sliced peppers and onions, jar of salsa, and can of black beans. Mondays is always pizza, either frozen or homemade depending on how busy we…

I’ve recently discovered how easy it is to cook salmon from frozen. And shrimp in the freezer is a fantastic way to cook up a surprisingly impressive meal!

I am the same way and yet I ended up in a abusive relationship for four years because I was young and didn’t believe it could happen to me. It wasn’t until years later that I was able to piece together that it was abuse. It’s great that you have drawn lines and feel confident in your ability to protect yourself from…

It took one long-term abusive relationship and a series of asshole short-term boyfriends to make me realize this: A dude who says all the right things is a scum bag. A dude who DOES the right things is golden.

Um, being raped by someone you know makes it pretty easy to ID them. Those women knew who Bill Cosby was prior to being raped by him. Being raped by a stranger, trying to ID someone from pictures provided by police, based on your memories of a traumatic experience—totally difference.

I’m talking about economic opportunity for people and poverty rates, not how far a dollar will go. I get that the cost of living in KY is lower than NY, but that doesn’t mean people are doing well. There are entire sections of KY that have no jobs outside of the coal industry which is poisoning the water table,…

That is why he won the election. But it is not the majority of the population, which is what the previous commenter stated.

Have you been to Indiana? May as well stay on the southern side of the Ohio. We actually consider southern Indiana to be part of Kentucky. Also, people I know who haven’t left Kentucky are just dirt poor.

Ha! I voted for the inanimate carbon rod and he was projected to win. Bevin’s win was shocking. Hopefully he’ll be a one term governor like the only other GOP governor we’ve had in 40yrs. Although, in KY it is very hard to tell the difference between the GOP and Democratic party. The Dems have lost their base because…

Not even close to most. Most people didn’t vote at all. Conway was predicted to solidly win, it did not play out the way anyone expected.

We will. Don’t worry about our poor as shit state. The coal companies will ensure we destroy ourselves regardless of which party is in power. Appreciating your compassion for a state that is literally being held hostage by special interests.

I think it was a mix of voter apathy and a piss poor Dem candidate

This Kentuckian cried pretty hard when Bevin won and the GOP won other races the Dems were predicted to win.

The sad thing is I voted for the Dem candidate while holding my nose. The Democratic party in Kentucky is crooked and stands for nothing, but at least the supported Kynect and kept Right to Work out. The Dem candidate was impersonal, unengaging, and pretty shitty—so no one voted.

Only about 30% of the state voted and he got about 52% of that. So no, not the majority of Kentucky.

Truth. I remember sometimes wanting my abuser to hit me, just so I would have the validation to go (maybe I still would have stayed, who knows). When people used to ask how we were doing, if he was nice I would say, “Yeah, I mean...he doesn’t hit me.” Like that was the bare minimum of what you could expect from a…

I wondered about this before my husband and I married, until I spent some time working with Hispanic teens who typically had two last names, with and without hyphens. When they marry they each carry over their mother’s last name or just the father’s last name. The added benefit is I imagine it makes genealogy much…