I agree with you. If this guy is sincere in his move away from the views of his past, then I say welcome. While I am not nor I have I ever been religious, I live in a deeply religious area of the country. It requires a tremendous amount of strength for people in the grip of that community to reject it it and get out…

Good luck with one day having surgery for the seizures.

I am honored to have been one of the featured Harmless Lies! My dad would be thrilled. (And my dog appreciates the Westie love!)

Jost may have family money. Didn’t he go to one of the big Ivy League colleges? Harvard, I think. Anyway I think these two are perfect for each other. 

I know that violence is never a productive response. I know that the law of attraction says that whatever you send out into the universe comes back to you threefold. I know punching McCain repeatedly in the face wouldn’t change any of the massive injustices currently happening right now in the world. But in spite of…

Agree with you completely. I voted for him, too, even though I wasn’t crazy about it after he came out and said he’d have voted to confirm Kavanaugh. I don’t know what he thought was to be gained by doing that. I was also crushed and shocked when he lost to Swamp Creature Marsha by such a large margin. I was also…

I fantasize that BoneSpur, Barr, McConnell, Graham, and all the rest of the traitors may one day be found guilty of treason and experience this revival of the federal death penalty firsthand. Such sweet irony. 

As an American who has vivid fantasies about fleeing to Great Britain from the dumpster fire that is America, this saddens me greatly. I really thought that you guys would right the ship a lot faster than we would. At least once a week I’m convinced I’m either in a coma or purgatory. And every week this “existence”…

I thought exactly the same thing.

What does Ivanka know?

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As @sauvage says in another reply to this - women uphold the patriarchy and by extension white supremacy. It’s all tied together. The patriarchy could end in one generation if women stopped carrying the water for it. But like this article says, it all ties back into class and privilege and access. Too many women…

My dad grew up on a farm with horses and cows and all the farm animals so I also totally believed this was good solid info from a knowledgeable source. I had no idea this was such a common joke to play on kids. I still maintain that it seems like a thing that could be true. And now I really kind of want to tell my…

Apparently it’s a more common myth than I thought. My dad had nine uncles all of whom where very fun and joked around all the time, I bet some of them had probably told him the same story when he was a kid.

That’s great. I was also led to believe through my dad’s story that the short side of the cow was where short ribs came from.

That is great and also something I might have believed. I was a very gullible kid. Plus, like you, I had lots of faith in the intelligence and experience of the adults in my life. Surely if they said it, it must be true.

Sounds like an American snipe hunt! 

Awesome! Thank you for the link. My dad would have enjoyed hearing about the Dahu. Part of his story to me also included that part about some of the cows being longer on the left and others being longer on the right and how that meant they could only walk in one direction. Also, the short side of their body was…

That year sounds wonderful! It makes sense that this is a common myth because it really does seem like something that could happen to animals who live generation after generation on a mountainside. 

When I was seven or eight, my dad told me cows that live in the mountains had longer legs on one side of their body so they were able to stand on the slopes. Regular cows would fall over in the mountains. I totally believed this. The next school year we studied adaptive behaviors in animals like those fish in…