Same. I am former military. (And a woman.) I support women being drafted, but the draft should be an absolute last resort. You don’t want people in the freaking military, defending the whole country, who are only there because they have to be.

I once worked with a woman named Tedi (pronounced “teddy.”) One day someone asked her what that was short for, and in a very chipper voice, she said her dad was so disappointed when she came out a girl, he insisted on naming her Theodore anyway, the name he’d picked out for the son he actually wanted, so her mom came…

I never understood the backlash from “true Beatles fans” against Across the Universe. I grew up listening to the Beatles non-stop — seriously, they and Jethro Tull were the only bands I listened to until I was in middle school and realized other people were making new music — and I was absolutely blown away by that…

Ours too! Instead of having to think up and somehow afford gifts for each of my parents, three siblings and two siblings-in-law, I now only have to do that for one adult relative. So much easier.

Early summer 2015, we went to San Diego and got a Mitsubishi Lancer that only had about 4,000 miles on the odometer but sounded like it was about to blow up when running. It was also slow as shit. We drove it to Phoenix, taking a highway with a 75 mph speed limit, in fear of getting run over from behind by an…

That just reminded me of something that happened the last time I bought a new car. Two weeks after I bought it, the dealership called and said I could pick up my permanent license plate. I stopped by that afternoon, and parked near the front door. As I was getting out of my two-week-old car, a salesman appeared and…

I am so sorry your friend had to go through that. But yes, I agree, it’s good she had the choice to handle it the way she saw fit, just as someone else should have the choice to handle it differently. I hate these “pro-life” (anti-choice) fuckers so much.

It’s so frustrating, isn’t it? I live in a rural area that has elected mostly Republicans at the local and state levels. They work on shit like fixing roads and setting up tax incentives to encourage new businesses to move in and existing ones to expand. Stuff that doesn’t grab headlines, but actually matters. The…

Yep. Countless women who’ve actually had late term abortions can tell their stories, but some people still choose to believe Trump bleating about “ripping babies out of wombs the day before delivery,” like the woman woke up the day before her due date and changed her mind.

Yeah, but there are a lot of people who just see “infant lives” and think “yes, killing infants is bad!” and no further. These fucksticks knew exactly what they were doing when they chose those particular words for their witch hunt committee title. It’s disgusting.

The House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives.

I had an appointment this morning to talk to my gynecologist about getting an IUD, even though I’m really happy with the pill I’ve been on for the last 10 years. She thought it was crazy I was so worried about my pill in light of Trumplestiltskin (I’m mostly worried the copay will go from $0 to something outrageous,…

I am so sorry that happened to you and I hope it never does again. I just talked to a friend who got an IUD two years ago and wishes she’d done it sooner, so at least, if you go that route, it won’t be a terrible thing and could provide a little peace of mind.

Ha! I can’t confirm or deny that but seems likely!

This is the first time I feel like I have anything in common with Gisele! I too have been forced to implement a ban on any more discussion about the election, but at least it’s not within my own home.

Last night, after Trump was declared the winner, I looked at Facebook and the top two posts on my timeline were:

Oh, I hate it! I can’t stand to have a single unread email. I go through my gmail/work email multiple times a day and delete all the garbage. My husband, on the other hand, opens the important stuff and leaves the garbage to pile up.

It’s not so much my husband and I keeping each other out of our digital space, it’s more not really caring to be in each other’s digital space. Between his gmail and work email accounts, my husband has 19,000 unread emails. (Not an exaggeration — that number on the ‘mail’ icon on his iPhone keeps growing.) Clearly…

Not sure if it’s true anymore, but at one point, the Camry was the U.S-sold vehicle with the most U.S.-made parts. Not that it would matter to that guy, but anyway.

Also, this just reminded me of something that happened a couple weeks ago — I went to the pharmacy to get two prescriptions filled, eye drops for my dog and birth control pills for me. An older woman was ringing me up. She had the BC in her hands while a pharmacist was trying to find the eye drops. She knew the eye…