I don’t need another reason to love libraries, but this is definitely added to the list. Now for anyone who needs some library porn... (as in beautiful libraries, not porn filmed in those libraries!)

Thank god. I can remember paying $50 in fines once I could afford it after getting the flu and forgetting to return the 16 childrens books of 10 pages each that we kept for three weeks. I think we couldn’t borrow for over a year. Also libraries have made mistakes before. Twice I’ve gone in and found the book on the…

RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU’RE STILL AFRAID TO GO INTO YOUR CHILDHOOD LIBRARY BECAUSE OF YOUR DEBTS AND YOUR SINS

The Olympics already have raised the minimum age to 16 at the time of competition. The problem is that by the time you’re in the Olympics, you’ve probably been competing at a very intense level for 50% of your life at that point. But it would be nice if they put more emphasis on the well-being of the kids rather than…

Is it politics? Or is it outrage at Trump’s basic lack of human decency? At the time she got the call, Sgt Johnson’s wife was being driven to pick up his casket. She had just been told that they could not have an open casket at his funeral and she was in a fetal position in the car in misery. And then Trump comes…

Yeah, I was pretty disgusted at that “look at how evil my ex is because she took all the death benefits!” approach (and probably knew Trump would go for it), when the mother was *not* the one who decided who got the death benefits.

Really puts into perspective how fucking worthless Trump is. As much needless suffering as Bush caused, he at least knew the most fundamental truth: that he was responsible for the life of every soldier under his command, and every single death was on his hands. He understood the gravity of his decisions. Trump does…

Just the ones who were such a shitty father that their kids wrote them out of their death benefits.

The father was complaining that his ex-wife was his son’s beneficiary (which would have been the son’s choice), so she got $10,000 and he got nothing. I can see why a rich man might respond to that sort of weird complaint by offering money. As for the rest, Trump is evil, dishonest, and doesn’t believe in paying…

Confused.

Yeah, the father is kind of a dick himself. He complained that the soldier’s government life insurance ($100K) was all going to the mother and none to him, but that was the soldier’s decision. He could have named his father as beneficiary (or split the benefit), but chose to name his mom. I’m guessing it wouldn’t be…

And seeing as how this is the 21st century, wouldn’t someone just send the $25K by direct deposit?

Ronald Berkman, president of the university, refused to condemn the posters.

So, full disclosure: I was an army wife for a period, divorced my ex who is still a soldier, and we are both happily remarried and we all get along, lalala

I love that White House statement.

So this is a thing in Ohio:

Trump flat out doesn’t like Gold Star Families. It’s a weird tic that he has; my theory is that they make him feel shame — er, the emotion that approximates shame for his family — and this is why he is hostile to them. He knows that he has never sacrificed anything, and likely never will.

Now now... Who are you going to believe? A fallen soldier’s grieving family or a man with a history of lying and a documented history of attacking the grieving family of a fallen soldier?

He called her “The woman” and “The wife” in his comments and had clearly forgotten her name (if he ever bothered learning it).

It’s during moments like these that we should take the time to remind everyone via social media, comment sections, emails, etc. that Donnie got FIVE, count ‘em - 5 DEFERMENTS to AVOID SERVING in Vietnam.