I like your mom.  Mine was similar, very much told her daughters that being “nice” and compliant” was not worth it if you meant you’d be stepped on. Be a bitch, because you don’t owe a stranger anything. 

Also a former staffer here: 1st job in the Senate was in the mid 00's and I was paid 27K/year before taxes, and was even told they would have paid me 28 if I was FROM the state I was working for. Pretty nice, but I was 22 and wanted the job. Parents had NO money, so the only way I got by was finding the best group…

Came here to write this.  Now, I don’t have to. 

Beat me to it.

This. I got in a fight once with a friend over fracking. She, admittingly, is an energy policy expert and said that reports of fracking being injurious to people/water/the environment were overblown. I told her my argument was just this: when it costs more money to acknowledge a problem than to ignore it, businesses…

Are you my soulmate?

Take your fucking star.

Going through this right now. So far I have lost almost 55lbs. I was feeling good about myself and then I went out a few weekends ago and a friend of a friend decided he could slap my ass. I was luckily sober and yelled at him right then and there in front of witnesses that he was not allowed to touch MY or ANYONE…

What I feel like is GLORIA FUCKING SWANSON!

Kevin Kline at his absolute peak.

+ALL THE 1's!!!

Brother! Yup, Vernon escapee here. Our mayor ended up endorsing Gottheimer which shocked the shit out of me. Made me want to drive home, go to the George Inn and buy everyone a beer.

I am from this ass backwards district in NJ. Before Garrett it was represented by Marge Roukema, a moderate pro choice Republican who pretty much got run out of any Repub leadership position because of her moderate beliefs. Then she was replaced by this psychopath. He lives in pretty much a compound in the the most…

One of the last true troubadours. Safe travels, Mr. Cohen.

Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack, a crack in everything.
That’s how the light gets in.