You did the right thing. If it is addressed to someone else, it is a crime to even open it, if I recall correctly. The FTC rule was implemented because companies would send merchandise to people who did not order it — and then bill them! So, the idea is that if a company mails something to you (not to another) and you…

Really?

For months I was getting someone’s free gym bags and totes you get when you subscribe to magazines and I would always turn them over to the post master.

Whoo Hoo! Party at Yoga Woman’s house!

Hey we did yoga in rehab! There’s some overlap there. Whatever I see situations like this I wanted what I would do. But being a drug addict I would go HAM and it would be the worst (best?) fluke ever for me.

I apologize for libeling your community, then.

the same way that Civil War re-enactors (the intersection of the set of whom with the set of gun nuts is very large) have the fantasy of dying gloriously to preserve the right to buy and sell other people and compel their labor at pain of death.

I love this idea! I volunteer to assist in repelling the gun nuts.

Really? Most of the civil war reenactors I know are pretty reasonable nerds.

They only like the second phrase of the second amendment. Wayne LaPierre has a framed petit point tapestry in his office that replaces that inconvenient phrase about well regulated militias with an ellipses.

Maybe we do need a civil war in this country, so the gun nuts can live out their fantasies of dying gloriously to preserve their freedom to kill other people, the same way that Civil War re-enactors (the intersection of the set of whom with the set of gun nuts is very large) have the fantasy of dying gloriously to…

Once a coworker told me that even after Sandy Hook he’s never giving up his guns, I realized any attempt at a discussion about it was completely over.

I really fail to see why gun ownership is the hill that the Republicans chose to die on (pun intended). They can blather all they want about 2nd amendment herp-derp, but they can’t say that mass shootings are a tragedy, make sad faces, then ignore the issue until the next mass shooting. How did we get to this point?…

From the Onion. Sure, thoughts and prayers have a pretty poor record compared to actually passing legislation, but maybe this time they’ll work.

It occurred to me recently why pro-lifers are so ridiculous (besides the fact that they don’t give a shit about the kid once it’s born): if a pregnancy is terminated, wouldn’t the “precious baby soul” go to Heaven to be with God? Wouldn’t that be a good thing? So they actually don’t believe in God; therefore the…

Hmmm... death by Lego wound for harming children... I like it! Poetic justice.

And CHIP insures kids until they are 21, not 18, like some plans, and covers dental too!!!

Yeah this sucks. Unless I’m wrong, in Florida this program is referred to as “Kid Kare” and we had it for my two kids for a little over a year until they finally determined we actually WERE poor enough to get Medicaid. But it was only $20 a month, $10 for each kid. Without that, we couldn’t afford insurance, even…

That article was maddening. Especially “Mark” at the end who had been against any sort of socialized health care regime (including the ACA) all his life until he had a heart attack and realized not only could he not work, but he would have been unable to buy insurance anymore because of his new “pre-existing…

I read this article last night and found it illuminating and frustrating. Basically people are willing to act against their own self interest in order to ensure that “moochers” don’t also get health care. It is heartbreaking. The authro endes up trying to frame health care like a utility, like roads or garbage…