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This is another problem that single-payer could potentially help with, and also one of the coded reasons people are afraid of single-payer. I had a lovely friend who is an internist, trained twice (once in his native Pakistan and again in London). He worked for the VA (i.e., single-payer). He is a very religious

I buy it. She’s got the means, the motive and the opportunity.

I mean, Jezebel now also has a picture of him front and center. Along with two Harvey Weinstein pics “above the fold.” You could choose different photos to go with your headlines.

Thank you for successfully articulating what I felt about that movie. I appreciated the performances but felt so uncomfortable and angry the whole time I watched it that I could never re-watch it. I could never really put my finger on why, but you describe it perfectly.

I understand- it is difficult, especially since we don’t always learn what we are “allowed” to speak out against. About a year after my worst assault experience, I was working in a fast food restaurant. I was the only one in front when a regular customer came in with a friend and made a “joke” comment about my breasts

You know what? Based on what you wrote it was an actual assault. Even if the experience did not involve physical force, but coercion, fraud, or manipulation, it was real. Don’t second guess yourself, that’s what they want you to do. I hope you’re OK.

They just do every single thing right, don’t they? They are human so therefore imperfect, but damn it’s tough to tell sometimes.

I think you’re missing the point. I didn’t say no-one should ever jave displayed his photo, but I think it’s enough already and at this point it is probably just re-traumatizing the victims.

I’m super-late to this party, but I wanted to add that there’s an additional significant way that wealth-building happened in the 20th century—labor unions—that favored white workers over black workers. Now that us whites have leveraged unions to get what we can from corporations, we’ve gutted labor protections our

One thing that’s been bothering me this week is seeing Weinstein’s face all over the place. Every once in a while I’ll see the face of a person who sexually assaulted me (thanks FB/insta) and it will take my breath away for a moment. Can we stop plastering his picture everywhere yet, so the victims don’t have to be

My thought was, whither Dylan Sprouse.

Yes! When I was home-invaded, it was like a fever dream. There is no reality where I would have been able to get to a weapon, position myself to use it, and effectively defend myself in the roughly 7 seconds it took for the perpetrators to push through the door.

My husband has been mugged at gunpoint. I was the victim of an armed home invasion. We now live out in the sticks and leave our doors unlocked because we know door locks, weapons, security systems, etc. will do nothing if someone wants to get in the house or rob us. These types of crimes also happen so fast that

Yes, until she revealed the full extent of her narcissistic personality disorder. She’s one of those fun at parties, terrifyingly horrible everywhere else people. For example, she yelled at me repeatedly while I was in labor that I was doing it wrong.

If you mean awesome sarcastically, then yes she is.

I am losing the battle with wine, but am gaining the battle with exercising my feelings away. If I get injured....bad things will happen.

1. The salty Plaintain Chips are far better.

Oh man, I’m sorry. I remember those pregnancy no-wine days (or the days when my MIL would insist I get wine at restaurants so that onlookers could judge me and she could end up drinking it). I’ll just say, I was pg in post-9-11 GWB times and things seemed pretty apocalyptic then too. The big picture things are tough

I learned in another thread that it might not be real life, we may be all experiencing an alternate reality caused by the large-Hadron collider. Far-fetched, I know, but probably a best case scenario for us.

Sounds fair and wise to me. You put the plan in action and I’ll sharpen my psalm-writing pencil.