I don’t doubt that they’ve always been around. I haven’t lived in Mn for many years but I’m assuming that our similar element is still alive and well there, too. (See: Iron Range). I worked for Paul Wellstone during his first run for the Senate and I saw the various mindsets up close and often during that campaign. I…

I’m originally from Minnesota and can honestly say that Scott Walker’s reign of terror has left Wisconsin unrecognizable. When Russ Feingold lost his race and Scott Walker won his, I knew it was over for my former neighboring progressive liberal Midwestern enclave. This story both breaks my heart and makes me rage.

Municipalities are a totally different animal than garden variety employers. Most munis have tort immunity, which raises the bar substantially for plaintiffs to be successful in a suit against a municipal entity. Then when we’re talking about alleged police misconduct and trying to find a police department culpable…

I’m a parent and also a parent of a high school wrestler. When I read those words - that it didn’t end until his parents got to school - it was like I was just kicked in the stomach. Cannot allow myself to imagine.

Just did the same thing and I’m filled with regret.

I really wish I wouldn’t have looked up that case just now. How the little girl’s parents are able to wake up every day and function after hearing that testimony is absolutely beyond me.

COSIGN. My 12 yr old daughter and I started watching Gilmore Girls together on Netflix a couple of months ago and we’re despondent because we only have 6 episodes left. I had never seen the show before I guess because I was up to my eyeballs in babies and work and a divorce in the 2000s when it was on. Now it’s all I…

FYI, septembergrrl, you’re f’ing killing me this morning. It’s already a supremely shitty day today so please keep it up.

HOW DO THESE PEOPLE NOT SEE THE HYPOCRISY IN THAT MESSAGE? I can’t take much more of this, I really can’t. With the hearings in Florida this week re: the near-total ban on all abortions and its proposed criminal (felony!) penalties on abortion providers,and now this, I can’t take it anymore.

I love every single minute of it and am loudly applauding for him. Makes me want to buy a pair of his socks.

The rooms are kept at a cool 104 degrees, and the towels (among other things) are disgusting. To be honest, I’m embarrassed that I ever did this years ago (no offense to those of you who still do). I’m already a *tad* cynical, so when I heard their nonsense about how Bikram yoga cures ailing pituitary glands and can…

These stories freak me the f out. I was one year out from my divorce and just starting to dip my toes in the dating (cess)pool again when I met someone who presented as such a calm, rational, easy going guy. Cute, smart, funny, etc. We dated for maybe 2 months when I started to see really weird signs in him. They…

YES. She’s the most refreshing person ever. She owns her shit and there’s no shame in her game. And I love how she doesn’t take Bethanny’s or Lisa’s bait; she just calmly answers their questions and listens to their unsolicited BS and always keeps her cool. Love her.

I’m obsessed with her.

You’re digging WAY deep with the Richard Marx reference. I like it... a LOT. The one word that comes to mind when I think of him is “hair”.

Brendan was it for me; that piece of the story did me in. Aside from the fact that I have a highly impressionable 16 yo son with an IEP—one who would do or say just about anything in order to please someone—I can’t believe no adult at Brendan’s school thought to have the police wait to question him until his mom was…

*peach*. But I believe you.

Where have you been all my life?

After all this time (so many years I lost track), this is the first time I’ve heard what the system is for un-greying. I’m sure it’s been mentioned here a million times, but I’ve missed it and have always wondered what the deal is. I’ve seen commenters un-greyed within days of their first time commenting, which…

I just can’t prepare for any of mine to leave. I have 16 and 14 yo boys and an 11 yo girl and every week I think, “ONE of these guys is going to break your heart some day and ask to move in with HIM” and that thought just absolutely destroys me. The oldest can’t stand him, so I’m safe there, but my 14 yo is a wild…