Where are you at in Texas? Here in Fort Worth, my left pinky knuckle is cracked from dryness and we’ve had to run the heater for at least the last two months. It’s been barely above freezing all week. While summer is definitely wayyyyyy too long here, winter does happen....for a few brutal weeks.

The story states she was kicked out of the program on Christmas Eve. The incident at the hospital was on January 9. The two events aren’t connected.

The first time I went to a Korean restaurant, I was with a Korean-American friend and another friend who had spent the last two years living in South Korea for work. I was initially intimidated when they laid out the banchan, but having two people who were familiar with the customs made it a lot easier to just dive…

I work in the construction industry, and my boss (the company owner) came to work SINGING the morning after the election. The cognitive dissonance it takes to vote for an anti-immigration, anti-small business president as a small construction company owner in TEXAS and then SING when he’s elected is baffling.

For the first time in my life, we’ve gone long periods of time over the past year not speaking. It’s truly had a negative impact on our relationship, but disowning a parent is easier said than done.

My mother has been voting Democrat for as long as I can remember, as well. She was a struggling single mother who raised me to be a self-reliant woman, empathetic and with common sense. But Trump gets the nomination, and then all of a sudden she’s a xenophobe and she’s voting for him and while we haven’t stopped…

For real. My husband and I had been living together for about a year and a half and we both just sort of decided to get married. In hindsight, I don’t understand how anyone would just cool their heels in a relationship, wanting to be married, but waiting on the other person to decide when the time’s right to do so, if…

Oh, you haven’t seen Twitter then. The MAGA crowd is STOKED.

It’s not even the politics of it. Anyone who supports Trump, in my eyes at least, is saying by their vote that they endorse the truly awful shit he said and did before he was ever even president. To continue to double down and support him since his election is to say that the even more abhorrent shit he’s said and…

What you’re describing is my mother. I’ll never understand why she voted for Trump for as long as I live. I think she does regret it, and the only thing she’ll say is, “he would have won Texas anyway!”.

This was my mother’s justification for voting for Trump, when she’s voted straight-line D in every election that I can recall her voting in. And now she is so embarrassed by how it’s all turned out that she refuses to discuss politics at all and gets pissed off and shuts down when other people bring it up.

I live in the DFW region of Texas, and if you want to rescue a dog from a shelter (as opposed to through a breed-specific rescue), your options are almost always between pit-mixes and chihuahua-mixes, and I never see puppies. It hadn’t occurred to me that it might have to do with advancements in spay/neuter programs.

Angela only agreed to help Whiterose because the plan was for just one building to blow up and she was promised several times that it would be evacuated first. She started losing her mind as soon as she realized they lied to her, but clung maniacally to the idea that even though it was terrible that all those lives…

This. All of this. I felt it the moment I saw the cover and I didn’t know how to verbalize it without sounding like an asshole and this is it.

I know it sounds naive, but when I first heard there was a backlog several years ago, I couldn’t understand. What do you mean there is criminal evidence that isn’t being tested and logged to solve/prevent crimes? Oh, it’s for crimes against women? Ah, that makes sense, then. /headdesk

I don’t see the situation as a “he said, she said” situation. But even if you were to view it that way.....Winslet name-dropped Roman Polanski as well to somehow bolster her argument. Polanski has admitted to drugging and sodomizing a 13-year old girl. There is no “he said, she said” in that situation, and Winslet…

I thought the same thing. You don’t even want to know what EMTs make. The person that basically keeps you alive until you get to the hospital can often make less than a cashier at Costco.

Then maybe we’re both paranoid. Blue Lives and Military Lives only matter when those lives are about killing brown people.

If the governor of Minnesota, who will select Franken’s replacement, was a Republican, there wouldn’t have been a single Democratic senator asking for his resignation. This isn’t cynicism, it’s the truth. So while morally this is the right move on Franken’s part, I really hope people don’t kid themselves in believing…

It all just felt like some meta-textual joke about how the crazy lady pushing around a shopping cart might actually be a high-level participant in a huge conspiracy.