The answer to that, at least in my neck of the woods, racism (with an emphasis on foreigners) and misogyny. Not to mention a blindingly irrational hatred of what they think is socialism. I phrase it that way because I don’t think they really have any idea what socialism is or how much a better social safety net would…

Conservatives would still hate Planned Parenthood even if abortions didn’t exist. They don’t want women to have access to birth control either, although oddly many of them seem to successfully use birth control themselves. And to be honest they probably don’t really care if poor women ever get a mammogram or Pap…

I agree with you about Jon Snow being the likely one to make it out alive if for no other reason than the fact that this show seems to have a track record of punishing women in incestuous relationships while giving the men a well-what-are-ya-gonna-do shrug.  

I’m surprised that she thought tweeting about her dogs would somehow discredit her. Given that she’s a musher, how could her writings NOT feature the dogs? 

I am constantly astounded by how little things have changed since GG originally aired :

My late mother-in-law died from Crest Syndrome which is a form of Scleroderma. Her diagnosis took years. True, it is a rare disease, but she literally went all over the country looking for answers. Most of her first doctors’ visits resulted in referrals to psychiatrists and/or prescriptions for antidepressants. She…

So true. She is the luckiest of his children though since he spent almost no time at all with her. Marla was smart enough to move completely across the country after their divorce. Tiffany will turn out the only decent one of the bunch.

I’m beginning to think that Eric may be the “smart” one. Smart only in comparison to the rest of his family, of course.

I live in hell, too. You’re right. The trumpanzees around here haven’t been crowing as much (except for one person who invests heavily in the stock market who as recently as last week said tRump had made them a lot of money), but they’d still vote Republican tomorrow if there were an election.

Every thing about this story makes me sad. I also really want to know if the dog is okay. 

I’m glad to know the program is continuing in some form. And this Title X stuff is pure bullshit and proves the GOP doesn’t really care about reducing abortions just about putting women in our “place” and keeping us there.

But didn’t Colorado then stupidly defund this truly awesome and effective program because a few fundamentalist lawmakers said they thought IUDs were abortificants? I don’t understand why states (like my state of Tennessee that is determined to return to the 1800s) that claim to hate abortion and welfare won’t provide…

I think young women expect reciprocal treatment when fooling around in high school now. I’m glad you got to benefit from that. 

Not only do I have age blindness, I’m kind of bad about keeping up with what year it is. I mean, if I think about it for even just a second or two, I know that it is 2019, but if someone were to just suddenly demand I tell them the year without any time at all to think about it, I’m not sure what year I’d blurt out.…

I told someone the wrong age once, too, in front of my mother. Afterwards, when it was just the two of us, she corrected me. I’m not sure she believed me when I told her I didn’t keep up with how old I was.

Happy early birthday! Aren’t you glad we were teenagers before everyone had a camera on them all the time? Anytime I bemoan the bad things that come with middle age, I try to remember that all the stupid stuff I did is largely undocumented. And then go take some more ibuprofen.

I will be 48 in a couple of weeks, and I often forget how old I am. I mentioned to someone last week that I was a Pisces and when we started discussing birthdays, she asked how old I would be and I honestly had to do the math. I just sort of quit keeping up with them after 40. I’ve never been big on birthdays as an…

The more the merrier!

Whil I doubt Jr has ever given or will ever give a woman an orgasm, his perp walk will give one to millions.

I know it isn’t a nice thing to admit, but I get a great deal of joy from bad things happening to horrible people. An incredible amount of joy. I’d almost like to find out where this FEMA cheat will be jailed so I could go visit her just to point and laugh. I’m that petty about these people.