This is why so many people voted for — and continue to support — Trump even as he promised to gut the programs they depend on for survival. They honestly believe there’s a fundamental difference between the “good” programs for (white) people in “legitimate need” that keep them afloat and the programs that exist to…

Preach it from the fucking rafters for the rest of time.

I love how “working-class” is a term to mean white and employed in manufacturing, repair services, energy production, agricultural production, or police and emergency services. God bless those people. They’re the salt of the earth.

HOORAY!!!! Now can we depend on Trump following up with his threat/promise to not repeal Obamacare if the AHCA didn’t make?

Victoria pissed me off SO much. Beautiful production values, great costumes and setting, great actors and terrible, shitty, no-good writing. Victoria’s early reign was sufficiently dramatic (intrigue with ladies in waiting, assassination attempts, social unrest, controlling mother, evil step-father figure, and a…

DVRed Taboo - now I’m glad I did. But Mercy Street was one of the WORST series I’ve ever seen on PBS. I think I watched three episodes (maybe one more) and noped right the fuck out. WHAT a disappointment. They usually do historical drama so well (see literally anything else). Maybe it’s the Beeb, though, since MS was…

Harlots sounds right up my alley.

I have been assaulted by three different men. The first was my uncle when I was 16. He was drunk and evidently moved to tears by some song I sang for my family and he shoved his tongue in my mouth in front of my parents, who brushed the event off as “not a big deal.” The second time was a few years ago, when a man at…

there’s books and mini-documentaries about his love of LSD and how he introduced it to a bunch of Golden Age Hollywood friends.

Frontwoman: VagIna Garten

Cunt Punt will be your tribute band.

I pretty much made this face while reading that. The parts quoted are fucking terrible. 

Ughhhh that part with the

I think he had a van parked outside, you know,  to take her down to the river

Yeah, that seriously gave me the squicks.

I binge watched Chewing Gum yesterday and I loved it. I also liked Santa Clarita Diet. I’m not sure if it really was good or not. I’m unable to be objective when when Timothy Olyphant is involved.

OMG My history degree is potentially useful for more than beating my dog at Jeopardy (I’ll have student debt for no job, Alex!)

In this case, we’re talking about an incurable disease, a test that only gives notice of said disease (with risk of miscarraige and the only course of action to take is whether or not to abort), and only an implication that the decision was based on faith rather than a desire not to abort or risk miscarriage.

I’m seriously struggling to form a civil response to this, but I’ll keep trying in the hopes this can be a teachable moment.

Yep. The biggest reason people forgo amniocentesis in particular (which is the only test that would have been offered at that time) is that it can trigger a miscarriage and has some risks to the mother as well. Basically, it involves passing a large-bore needle through the abdomen and uterus and (hopefully) into the…