My mother buys me clothes every year, and she means well, but she has the most whackadoo taste! She seems to think I’m a multiple personality who is simultaneously a veterinary assistant, 67 year old Kools smoking grandma at the dog track, quilter, and Russian hooker.

I wish I could wrap a blanket of stars and lovely memories around you & erase the heaps of indignities.

Wow, you win.

I had been a poor student for years, sleeping on an air mattress in a sleeping bag, when my mom asked me what I wanted for Christmas. I told her I wanted a duvet to replace my sleeping bag and a real suitcase to replace a weathered duffel bag. She implied she had some extra money that year and asked if I had a…

This gift wasn’t given to me personally but it was still pretty awful from my perspective:

I like clothes, but my most insulting gift was clothing. It was the late eighties; I was in my early twenties. My “best friend” bought me a baby-pink sweater with baby-blue roses on it. I am profoundly, deeply, not a person who wears pastels, or flowers. And yeah, if my friend just plain didn’t get it, or had no money…

As I just said to somebody else, it’s not just Texas.

Meanwhile a woman is being held in Rikers without bail because she sat on the floor in a public office.

I hope there’s at least one adult looking out for him. I had a trans girl student pick me as the teacher to come out to after a lesson on genetics in which I said that XX:female and XY:male were typical, but exceptions abound and gender/sex is complicated.

What an egotistical jerk. I would totally not call him again after the sex.

I like Everlane a lot. It’s not designer prices, but it’s definitely pricey. However, I appreciate that the styles are really basic, it’s very good quality, and it’s not slave labor. The trick to making clothes last long is just not putting them in the dryer unless you absolutely have to. 

We have the choice: Being uncooperative or hysterical.

“But if they were raped, why didn’t they report it?”

OH MY GOD

Because term limits empower lobbyists and special interests — they don’t have to leave so they build up all the expertise and power in Washington. Term limits also strengthen the legislature to lobbyist pipeline and give lobbyists more opportunity to offer quid pro quo arrangements.

Thanks Ashley for checking this out and pointing other readers to this horrifying (and well done) story by the Miami Herald.

Co-signed,

Not sure about the choice to have a pug in the header image, if anyone has heard a pug sleeping, they’d know that sleeping in proximity to that is damn near impossible.

What?