“Sessions, who is also threatening to unwind police reform and recently said marijuana is ‘nearly as dangerous as heroin’...”

Sure, but I don’t know how I’m going to rustle up two clowns, a donkey, and a belt sander on such short notice.

Oh, scrub-buddy, dunno your situation but agree. I’m married, thank heavens, because the thought of putting on grown-up pants or a skirt for an entire evening is painful. Honestly, after 7 years of training (4 years of med school, 3 of residency) my wardrobe has narrowed to hospital-provided scrubs, pjs, a handful of…

As an emergency doctor I say to Raul Labrado, fuck you. There are clear and painful limits to what I can do in the ED, not because of lack of caring, but because of what my scope of practice, training, and resources cover. If you come in sick because of sepsis (severe, life-threatening infection), I gotcha. If you…

I find that my vacations are immensely enhanced by copious vaginal bleeding and gut-wrenching cramps, don’t you? Also, by the lingering after effects of soul-crushing terror about how the next few decades of my life might be affected by being tied to the life of a possible person I have no desire to produce and feel…

Yeah, most studies show it kinda sucks as a “gateway” drug, and alcohol, which is 100% legal, beats its pants off as a precursor to rougher illegal drugs.

Thank you! I still haven’t figured that one out - I’ve even done some google searches and it makes zero sense.

Blobfish-reminiscent?

How can you be sure about the Russian spy thing? Just asking, because I wonder about my cats all the damn time.

How can you be sure about the Russian spy thing? Just asking, because I wonder about my cats all the damn time.

Thank you! Geez. It took looking at the image on multiple sites, various sizes, etc to find those fucking dolphins. Frankly, I can’t think of an age where I was so unaware of the concept that people had sensual contact that I would squint reaaallly, reaaaallly hard to see those “dolphins” instead of just seeing the…

Eh, I’m biased because my husband was bitten by a copperhead, and no, there was no alcohol involved - we were on a fairly busy hiking path. All of the rattlers I’ve seen have seemed pretty afraid of me, but I’ve encountered quite a number of copperheads that stand their ground.

How about copperheads - very prevalent, fairly aggressive?

Many, many years ago some fratbro got his friend’s number mixed up with mine. I got a few questionable texts, but ignored them hoping they would work things out amongst themselves. However, that Spring I got the best voicemail ever:

Eh, my dog is alarmingly into the concept of separate but equal, as evinced by his tragic eye rolling at the situation above. It’s still better than my Republican cats though, who believe what’s yours is mine, and what’s mine is mine (thus why those fuckers are in his damn den).

“You can’t honestly believe I’d do atrocious, violent homophobic things, because frankly the people here are so violent and homophobic that they would have done those things before I’d even have to, amiright?”

Yup. Went to private boarding school on a full-ride scholarship. I can’t say I loved it, because frankly I was a miserable, depressed teenager, but I do think in many ways it saved my life. At home sometimes my mother was the most fun, awesome person ever, and sometimes she was a paranoid abusive mess (my sister told…

Thank you, that response was actually super-helpful (seriously, no sarcasm, I really enjoyed a balanced look at the reasons why advocates could be less than helpful in victims <12).

And this is how privilege works! You can be 8 billion in the hole, but because of your name, you still have housing, clothing, food, kids in a good school, plus people will have enough faith in you (despite the fact that you lost billions of dollars!) to give you start up money to try again. That homeless man may not…

I find it distracting, but no more than people eating popcorn, whispering to their friends, getting up to go the bathroom, etc... Movie theatre movies are meant to be a public experience, i.e. with other people with other needs there. I would think closed captioning should be fine.