I agree. Having been raised in a little pocket of Trumpland, I get prickly when people suggest the “liberals” just aren’t listening. For some “liberals”, that’s definitely true. Lord knows anyone can be a myopic ass hat. But for many years of my life, all I ever friggin did was listen...to conservatives shouting in my…

A bunch of people threw a temper tantrum to get Mommy and Daddy’s attention, and now here we are.

Is that the start? Lol. Makes a pretty huge difference. From awkward on both sides to...yeah, here’s a woman whose first instinct is to forge an us/them relationship? At the expense of gays? In the support of misogyny? Thinking I’m the kind of person who wants in on this? And our mutual kinda friend set this up? Great.

It’s interesting to be with someone from a different economic background, to say the least.

Nearly every one of my back home friends bought homes in the last down turn. We all had similar paying jobs, and I felt like such a loser! Then I realized their parents all threw down the down payment, and I...didn’t feel much better, but stopped berating myself.*

Liberal cities are bad! Except when I want to invest in real estate, or dine at the premier restaurants, or hob nob with the rich and famous, or grab my kid that internship, or take the mistress to a show, or, or...

Lol, you DO live here!

But age and race are just about appearance in screen, so you don’t need to know what the reality is, just what your eyeballs tell you.

Can we be done with the 90s?

Every time I hear someone give some blanket cop hero pitch, I always ask “Do you know cops?” Because if you have interacted with or personally know more than a handful, you know they’re not all heroes. It’s dangerous to pretend.

Ha! I still remember an AP English essay with “Were you asleep?!!” scribbled on top.

Do you have her range?

My fundy mentors used to say “Ask questions. God can handle it.” And then I’d ask toooo many questions and it was “Why are you giving the devil a foothold?”

7th Generation Californian here! And to this article, I say hooray!

Love it. Mostly because my white daddy def chased down my Latina mommy. And my white hub def chased down me.

Mostly agree, but some people do it effectively. To me, Dan Savage is an example.

Audience, Purpose, Form. I learned that in...college!

Kid tears his ACL, gets surgery, gets Oxy, takes it, it was wild, like Vicodin x100. Brings it to school, other kids crush it up and snort it (when you could still do that). Best feeling of their lives. Instant desire. They raid their parents’ and grandparents’ medicine cabinets looking for more pills. Find them. And,…

Congrats on making it out.

Hillary is not The Left. Left, Liberal, Progressive, and Democrat are not interchangeable terms. Just as Right, Conservative, Regressive, and Republican are not interchangeable terms.