These shootings are more tragic because they occur in what should be safe places. Schools and churches shouldn’t be war zones. And yet...

South Carolina here-keep emailing anyway! If we give up then democracy doesn't work.

Sending a hug from Charleston, as we just dealt with this a few months ago. Keep emailing-make your voice heard! I do, but my emails just go to Mark Sanford, Tim Scott, Nikki Haley, & Lindsay Graham...

I’m just here to offer support to this suggestion. I think the bar tab is falling more & more into the “groom” column for those using a more traditional system for pay & that would be a good place to start.

I read this while putting my wee ones to bed (during those few minutes when they are asleep, but not asleep asleep and will notice if I leave) and thought about how bad it coils get because at least Boehner isn’t completely irrational. Then I realized just how bad that is. THEN I walked into the family room and Donald…

STD screenings and treatment, free or cheap condoms, and, if necessary, examine breast tissue as men can also get breast cancer and are more likely to die from it because it goes undetected.

I taught college for 8 years & decided to go back to teaching middle school (my first teaching job) this year. I make more money, have a better schedule, and deal with significantly less drama from my students and colleagues. In a middle school. I give you Pink Barbie Jeep as evidence, as this does not surprise me…

Payless DexFlex come in wide widths.

Payless DexFlex come in wide widths.

Agreed-it’s disgusting. With two young kids, two large dogs, and a cat, we have tile and hardwood throughout our home-durable, easy to clean, and no scraping anything out of the carpet.

I try and clean the bulk of it up, but only because I was a server at a steakhouse and Italian reataurant, both with carpet under the tables, which sucked. I spent more time scraping potato and pasta out of the damn carpet with a soup spoon and cup of hot water before I could vacuum my station and go home than I care…

This 1000 times. This is exactly how I feel. It’s not the reprimand, it’s the yelling at a toddler that is my issue.

Or, say, if one of them had irregular periods, ovarian cysts, or any of the other issues birth control pills help with. I doubt all four females have zero reproductive system issues.

Without quality investigative journalism, people will fall for what appears to be the real thing, especially if it feeds their dogma.

It was. We were trying to figure out if they we also using her voice. It was all very disconcerting.

Small sign of progress: my little guy is playing club soccer now and we spent quite a bit of time watching WC games so he could see elite soccer being played. Not one time did he mention that we were watching women or ask where the men were.

I saw TLC a couple of weeks ago...were they singing over a track with Left Eye singing?

Oh, no. It’s very serious, especially for college in the south. For me it involves coordinated tailgating/football party supplies in my school colors, getting at least 1, but probably 2 new outfits (beginning of the season when it’s 100 degrees and November when it’s 75 degrees), printing football schedules and adding…

I do this, too! All the time! I don’t remember singing along in stores or wherever before having kids, but I do it all the time now and I usually don’t even realize it for awhile. Kids with me? Sing! By myself? Sing! Other adults? Yep, I keep singing. And I don’t care.

Those small steps add up and make way for more progressive policies in the future. ACA is incredibly conservative, but so many heads exploded when private insurances were really the greatest benefactor, there was no way to go for single-payer healthcare at the time. The court’s decision wasn’t because of Obama, but…

Mediocre? Mmmm. Moderate when we wanted more progressive? Yes. I think, when the dust settles, his presidency will prove to be pretty transformative in terms of moving forward. It doesn’t feel like it now, but things like ACA and DOMA are going to look pretty big in the very near future.