My mom and I had this shitshow on in the background the other day. We both stopped mid conversation to stare in horror.

My God, don't you dare apologize, hon. You make an excellent point. And I'm so sorry that this violence has touched your life and people you know.

Unfortunately, the victims of these shootings have friends and families left behind that would be traumatized by that. I genuinely don’t know how to get through to people. I just can’t wrap my mind around the mindset that values this bullshit right to a weapon over actual human life.

I don't think logic is a strength with these people.

A gun nut relative of mine tried to tell me the other night that the Sandy Hook shooting was orchestrated by the Obama administration to get everyone's guns. I asked his wife how often she must run out of tin foil because of the hats he must be making. He was not amused.

He looks like a manic turtle.

Oh damn! Thanks for the heads up, though.

If you feel like starting small, Korres makes ‘sleeping masks’ which are really nice and take a minimal amount of time. I have one on now!

I've been coveting, like, half of everything Atelier makes. This sale was my incentive to finally spring for a big bottle.

I'm replying to your post, but this is aimed at everyone in this Sephora-themed thread. When I shop online, I use ebates. Sometimes you get 4% cash back, sometimes it's 8%. It's a little something, at least. Oh, and if anyone needs a coupon code for the sale, it's ROUGENOTE.

Can you tell my mom that last part because I had chicken on a Friday last month and she acted like I had inverted all the crucifixes in her house.

I'm with you on everything but chiropractors. I was apparently one of those babies who puked multiple times a day. My mom complained about it to her chiropractor during her visit, just chit chatting. He adjusted me and the puking stopped. I get a lot of relief from adjustments, even now. The laser bullshit and all…

I immediately thought of that article, ugh.

I'm still not over his passing, and I don't think that I ever will be.

I just had some Dunkin munchkins and now I'm smoking a cigarette. At least death won't be a shock.

That might be out of consideration for people like me who have pretty intense claustrophobia. My brain immediately starts shouting when I get in an elevator car that there cannot possibly be enough air in this tiny space.

Even the most basic of data would be altered. For instance, specimens were collected from sites around the world and shipped to our lab. They weren’t willing to pay for faster shipping because that would cut into their profits. So I’d get a box of serum that was already too old to be tested; it should have been…

I’m a contract lab tech, and I had a year long assignment with a very large company that does the clinical trials for pharmaceutical companies. The things I saw in that year made me never want to take another pill again.

We would lose whatever esteem we gained by electing Obama twice, true.

I hope that you're wrong, but fuck...what you've written seems far too possible. This is legitimately scary.