In my family people would bleed the family dry before going to the government for assistance. It’s one of the ways that poverty combines with bootstrap mentality to bring down entire extended families and communities.

I am a senior living on disability and in my city, I have managed to live alone in a one-bedroom apartment since my marriage ended seven years ago. This past year has seen a big jump in rent prices countrywide but my city was hit especially hard, having been considered low for years. I had been in full panic mode…

Ahh yes, Columbus and Reagan. Both men who didn't know where they were or what was going on. Bless.

By the name I couldn’t tell them apart either.

I also clicked the link expecting to see Adam Levine, no matter how often I’ve tricked myself by mixing them up, so I feel for her.

Um. What?

... you mean Adam Devine from the Pitch Perfect movies where he sings a whole lot?

Adam Devine was in the Pitch Perfect movies and can sing. 

IMHO Ben Affleck was great in Gone Girl. 

“Real food and vitamins”

Candace Cameron Bure is worse than her brother Kirk. They share the same appalling beliefs, but she wraps hers in smiles and doublespeak.

As a happy palate cleanser, my husband and I travelled to Mobile for the Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit concert and it was amazing. We stayed at a nearby hotel (slept on crisp clean sheets I didn’t have to wash), had a nice meal, and it was super fun to watch my normally very reserved husband in enthusiastic awe of…

Shelter Cat Update!

Dave got that Netflix money, and almost immediately became an old rich white man.  

If you don’t want to vaccinate, go to a small island and sequester yourself, [otherwise] you’re saying ‘Fuck you’ to all you other human beings. We all have to do it if we want to live. I don’t understand how people don’t vaccinate

Christ, can you imagine Esposito saying it to you in person? It would be humbling.

Moff Gideon takes no shit.

And she’s still sticking up for Matt Lauer.

Denzel Washington has always been an intense guy who doesn’t play nice in interviews.

Yeah if I were Denzel I’d have been pissed by that question too. Her question reads like a polite, journalistic way of asking him why he’s so “uppity” and he totally picked up on it.