Honestly, our educational system is failing miserably in the history realm. I never learned about Japanese internment camps when I was in school (high school or college). The only reason I know about them is because I am an avid reader and spend a lot of time on websites that have knowledgeable commenters. We covered…

You poor bastard. Have a virtual bottle of wine.

I was heartened to see that a bunch of people called her out, including a Republican who criticized her for using her Christianity as an excuse for hateful behavior. It was one of the most reasonable posts I’d ever seen!

I made the mistake of looking up her Facebook page. Oh dear cod.

This is my marriage philosophy. Every time I am about to be pissy, I think, “Is this going to matter one day/one week/one month from now?” If not, I let it go. I’m not advocating that people have no expectations or low expectations, just that each partner be willing to cut the other one some slack. If my husband is…

My father-in-law is like that. Except he just shouts a bunch of words that have no meaning to me. Ex: I had to shut down his office computer (which is still running Windows XP). He stood there shouting, “On the line! On the line!” until I realized that he meant “Click the link that says ‘shut down without updating.’”…

Your grandma sounds like a lady from my church. Nicest lady ever, but every time I take her shopping, she invites me in afterward so that I can “fix” her computer. Last time I went there, her complaint was that the computer was talking to her in Spanish (I’m pretty sure she got a pop-up ad at some point). Another…

You’re making me glad to have escaped (I’m an OG Luzerne County resident and briefly lived in Lackawanna County)!

It doesn’t even matter at this point. My brother just posted something about how he gets up every day and earns an honest living, unlike those “welfare-sucking asswipes.” It is taking every ounce of self-restraint I have not to post, “You do realize Mom received WIC when she was pregnant with you, right? And that I…

Same here! I was raised to treat people with kindness, told that everyone is worthy of love and respect, and taught to stand up for what is right. Now my parents (and my brother, heaven help him) are all posting memes about how people are protesting Trump’s election because they’re “afraid their free housing is coming…

I love it here, too. Like you, I seem to do much better with dry air. I went from being so sick with respiratory issues that I had to buy my own nebulizer machine to (knock on wood) not being sick once since I moved. I had a few days of allergy symptoms, but nothing like the constant URIs/bronchitis I had back East.

You don’t give a shit, yet you set up a burner and then wrote 300 words more than necessary to express your opinion on the article you don’t care about.

Ugh, I’m so sorry. :(

Ryan Phillippe is responsible for my very first “special” feelings. I used to watch that scene from Cruel Intentions (you know, the one with “Color Blind” in the background) over and over again.

I’ve never been so happy that I moved 2,000 miles away from home. No more holiday dinners involving politics!

Honestly, the people who say “I support Trump, but I have black/gay/disabled/Muslim friends” are worse than the outright bigots. The bigots were idiots to begin with, but these people heard/read what Trump said and saw what he did, and they went, “Well, racism is bad, but I’m gonna vote for this guy anyway so I can…

Boy, being a racist really fucks with your ability to string grammatically correct, coherent sentences together. They need to find someone to be grand proofreading wizard for next year.

As did my mother, father, and brother. It blows.

Same. I was ungrayed a while back, but when I had computer problems, I got logged out and my key didn’t work even though I copied it into a Word doc when I got it. I’ve been commenting here since 2006, lost my old account when they first rolled out Kinja, and still can’t get out of the grays after 10 years of reading…

I am embarrassed to admit this, but I was once an anti-choice Republican who thought that people were poor because they just didn’t want to work. I also went door-to-door campaigning for a congressman who eventually got in trouble for punching a woman or grabbing her by the throat, or something like that (can’t…