If this woman is an alcoholic (which sounds likely), it's not a question of not wanting to watch her kid. It's not like she twirled a villainous mustache and thought "Mwa ha ha! I'm going to have this child solely to neglect it!" She's profoundly ill and incapable of caring for herself or others. That's not to say she…

I assume you were raised in a middle class family prior to the recession? You can think these are temporary jobs all you want, but go to a store and look at who's helping you. There are some teenagers, but there will be an awful lot of people well into adulthood as well. Those people may want better jobs, but a lot of…

And you can buy your pitchforks right there in the Garden Center at your local Wal-Mart! Convenient!

Why don't they just offer their employees a 'modest proposal'...

That is some fucking giant mammoth balls, right there. Like, the Goliath of mammoths, his balls.

Wait, why is the entire family terrible? Maybe I just don't know anything about Mary, but is there something indicating she is also awful? She sounds fine to me.

Why do I see a stint as a radio host in his future?

Put this man away before he kills someone else. This is the third woman he has abused that we know of, plus the police officer he assaulted, plus the young black man that he murdered. How many "get out of jail free" cards does this guy get?

How'd I do? :o
Pork Belly and Chutney.

What if a 15 year old wants to drink or smoke cigarettes or drop out of school to do porn? There are plenty of things children want to do, and governmental bodies step in because they're children.

Youse guise! Let's give Burt three cheers for her third week at the Jezzie party.

At an all time low over here... I am a lonely anxiety-ridden bipolar lady with few friends as a result of the above mentioned shortcomings and living far away from most people I know. I had a miscarriage this week and don't know how to deal with it. I was incredibly excited to be a mom. I haven't seen a doctor yet,…

Ugh, you guys, I'm so annoyed. My hard drive fried itself this week, which is not exactly the kind of stress in the final months of PhD dissertation writing. The lovely people at the computer shop were able to recover all of my files, so other than a day lost to reinstalling programs and a few gray hairs, I didn't…

My boyfriend and I sometimes go on pretend first dates. Basically, we pretended like it was the first time we met and spent the dinner "introducing" ourselves. And I know it sounds creepy, but I learned SO much about him, and we talked for hours! Also, I was reminded why I fell in love with him in the first place. We…

However, I was willing to give up a certain sense of pleasure to avoid feelings I feared: betrayal, emptiness, the loss of dignity and control.

Awful.We cared not one iota for the main character. Sleeping around and generally being an obnoxious airhead hardly appeals to our investment in time for this trash.

For what it's worth, though, newer generations will not have a memory of what it is like when mainstream culture says that racism is acceptable. So, while there may be plenty of racists abounding, the people who believe they can get anywhere with racism (so, really, the people who are educated and in power) are going…

Um, not necessarily. I grew up the grandchild of some pretty racist people and my uncle is pretty fucking racist and my parents are not as racist but really haven't done as much soul searching on the issue as they should have. Anyway, all of us cousins generally agree that our racist grandfather and less racist but…

That cannot possibly be true. Seriously, there is no way. It has to be, like, "highest selling paperback of all time printed on 71.34% recycled cardboard vellum-textured paper with 9-point Caslon text and no chapter headings and page numbers rendered in Klingon, manufactured in South Sudan, and written by an…

It was just brought to my attention that this is the highest selling paperback novel of all time. I weep for our mothers.