People will hate this following comment, but it has to be said.


Don’t respond to violence with even more violence. They kill a few hundred to try and provoke war, so we send planes and kill thousands of mislead people? That’s fucked up.

Beef up anti-terrorism policies and procedures, research new defense measures that…

*SIGH*, here we go with the “No true Scotsman” arguments again.

I hope this is not a prelude to making the same mistakes The Poodle and Dubbya made before.

Obama, the guy that had Osama killed and his dead carcass dropped into the ocean? The guy that is willing to kill bad guys with hellfires in so-called friendly countries? The guy that authorized the Stuxnet cyber attack on Iranian centrifuges?

Can we get away entirely from stereotyping one group or another based on the outliers? It’s as idiotic to assume that one woman’s false testimony correlates to those of all campus rape victims, as it is to assume that rapists who belong to fraternities reflect the actions and behaviors of all men (or women) in campus…

And, the next morning, once reality was pointed out, did they insist it was still an evil Obama plot for the next six months?

Troops pretend in Texas: ZOMG JADE HELM! DEFEND ALL THE WALMARTZ!

I believe Plumpy’Nut is a nutritional supplement, that has had great success in building up children in famine-ravaged areas. That, or it’s a Pokemon character.

They are profoundly insightful and comforting essays, and reading Wild after my mother was diagnosed with cancer soothed me in a way I didn’t expect. I’m glad there’s so much excitement for this.

Tiny Beautiful Things is really an amazing collection. I’ve read the entire book twice, and I’m on a third reading. It isn’t a novel; it’s a collection of advice columns which are essentially essays, so I read one or two at a time.

Her advice in How You Get Unstuck hit me in the chest like an arrow. I had just lost a son and she has this line: “everyone else lives on Planet Earth; you live on Planet My Baby Died.” It was so stark and real and relevant and it was the first time since that loss that I felt like maybe I wasn’t completely alone. I…

I can’t wrap my head around this. I think I’d have been more excited if they just said Cheryl Strayed was writing a drama about a Portland family.

That was wonderful. Thank you for this interview.

I’m a Scully in the streets and Mulder in the sheets.

god fucking bless you, Madeleine.

I love ghost stories and Halloween, but hauntings and stuff as much as I want to believe in, just aren’t believable. In fact I just recently read that the reason why most ghost stories and sightings revolve around the middle 1800’s and the Victorian era, is because of carbon monoxide poisoning from indoor lamps.…

A panel about dealing with online harassment was shut down due to online harassment?

Watch IV and V, and then don’t watch 10 hours of bad Star Wars movies after that.

I will stick my neck out and say that it *is* inevitable that even with proper oversight, evil, abusive thugs will worm their way into organizations and will proceed to act out their pathological desires. My jaw drops when people suggest that the innocent person’s presence was the problematic factor, and THEIR removal…

They’re not heroes. They’re citizen soldiers.

The problem isn’t that integrated units hurt morale and unit cohesion.