still-learning
Mediocrites
still-learning

LOL don’t tease

Our society is disgusting in a lot of ways. 

“I think that the people would revolt if that happened,”

Thank you for this, I’ve updated the post. Will try to be more sensitive next time. Thanks for the link as well.

I used to want to believe in Meghan. Shut up, Meghan.

Everyone who grew up a poor minority in the 80s-early 90s knows what a piece of shit Bush I was. Being a veteran gave him so much cover for his bullshit for decades and then becoming a doddering old man let him live out his life remembered only as that one president who said “read my lips”.

Death magically rehabilitates motherfuckery.

Oh well, bring on the next astrophysicist. Make it a woman this time. 

You and me both. I'm not even going to bother trying. I'll just enjoy the article and leave it at that.

I form my own opinions based on facts and data.

It’s been said a lot recently, but I think it warrants repeating: white people, whether they identify as male or female, tend to gamble that their interests should be aligned with those of a white supremacists, even if they themselves don’t necessarily consider themselves white supremacists. They view an equal piece

I don’t know who Sherrilyn Ifill is

For a certain definition of “works”, I guess. *sigh*

Boy, when the druids make a (festival holiday?) It really sticks.

How else are you supposed to ferry your sleeping child down The Strip at 2 AM with two fists of yard long cocktails, if not with a stroller?

My son’s in first grade and there is a classmate whose mom carries him everywhere. She’s petite and he’s not a peanut; his feet dangle past her knees. She carries him from the bus, she carries him to the bus, he sits on top of her on the bus. I thought maybe he had some kind of mobility challenge but them I saw him at

There were probably off duty NYPD officers in that fascist rabble. 

We can’t protect ourselves. We can’t protect our sisters from the men that hurt us. We can’t go to the police, we can’t use whisper networks.

I don’t really have much of an opinion one way or another about what Schumer should do here, especially since there is not even a package for Schumer to accept (the last package was much better than it was portrayed here).

It’s a solid book and among King’s scariest. I haven’t read it as an adult, but I’ll second you that there are parts that would hit me with a visceral horror as a parent.