Except it doesn’t work that way in practice. Rich kids get exemptions to the draft, Poor’s not so much. Or rich daddy pulls strings and gets kid assigned somewhere safe, like George Bush.

I agree that selective service should be abolished, but since we’re keeping it, I think we should make it universal until such time that we can abolish the draft.

Alternatively there ought to be a national service that doesn’t have to be military in nature. Give 2 to four years to teaching in lower income schools, building bridges or improving infrastructure and in exchange free college education and health care for the rest of your life.

In all seriousness though, if anyone votes for this that didn’t vote for the Paycheck Fairness act, they can fuck right off.

I know! Me too. Brienne and Jaime forever. Cersei only loves herself.

God, I hope it's Melisander preparing some serious magic or something. Otherwise she's given up.

Who else is a fan of Varys? He seems like the only one except for the recently departed John Snow who might (MIGHT) care more about doing what’s best for the people of realm than about personal power or vengeance. Note I haven’t read the books.

“If we take care of morality,” David Brumbaugh, a Republican Representative in Oklahoma’s House , said during deliberations, “God will take care of the economy.”

Yes, there are! . And we seriously need to get out there and vote more. Even if it doesn’t make a difference immediately. This guy sucks ass.

I promise, there are intelligent, non-skeevy people in Texas. You just wouldn’t know it by who gets elected.

Thank you. And then one thinks of children being raised in war zones, and loses all hope, altogether.

Do you know what would be awesome? If we completely divorced health care from the employer/employee relationship. We could have some sort of, I don’t know, single payer system or something.

Linda Ronstadt losing that magnificent voice to Parkinson’s absolutely breaks my heart. Age and disease are cruel, cruel bastards.

It sure is.

After tonight, I only want Carol to bake me cookies 😱. Goddamnit, she better be ok.

I already made my comment over on the Gawker piece about Nancy’s passing. Basically I was a working nurse during the AIDs epidemic and to this day just thinking about the Reagans about gives me a rage stroke. Fuck them and their gay men are disposable attitudes. No one’s ever going to know the exponential death toll…

I recently re-watched “And The Band Played On”. Part of the “Butcher’s Bill” was on her.

This. My worst nightmare is to die and leave my children. How comforting it would be to believe we’ll all be together in an afterlife. Sometimes atheism is a harsh mistress.

Must be nice to believe in Heaven.

I want another woman justice