The GOP is the VA’s main problem... Due to a number of Republican led mandates, the VA is supposed to be cutting costs, routinely doesn’t have access to the funding they are promised, and are required to jump through dozens of hoops to obtain the supplies and personnel they need (can only use “approved” vendors,…

Prosthetics are incredibly complex, and the science behind how they need to fit is pretty exact. The pic shows that she had a transtibial amputation, which is pretty extensive (not just her foot was removed). The factors that go into fit include the weight of the prosthetic, the length of the residual limb (not called…

I got it from the backside of a bilingual showercap box in Niagara Falls. It’s got a nice ring to it though, doesn’t it?

It seems to me that the same people who insist that they support the military and veterans yet fail to get them the care they deserve once they are disabled are the same as those who are pro life yet have no interest in helping needy children once they are born. This has been a depressing day for the social contract

I had no idea that being female was some kind of customization. Screw these people.

Research has proven time and time again that simultaneous or sequencial bilingualism don’t have a negative impact on language learning and development. One language actually supports the other and there are serious neurological benefits, especially on attention control. Professionals who say the minority language…

My mother’s cousin moved to America, got married there and had children. When the children were 12/13 she tried teaching them her native language (German) so commication with her family and her children could get easier and because it’s always an advantage to know another language, or so she thought. Her childrens’…

I know that where French is concerned, people coo over how beautiful everything sounds. French is a pretty language. (And I could happily listen to a phone book being read in Portuguese) But it’s ridiculous, as you point out that some languages are “fine”.

Yet those are the same people that swear people using any language but English is devisive. As if someone speaking Spanish, Hindi, Farsi or any other language is somehow a personal offense. And of course it’s always the brown languages (for lack of a better term). I rarely hear these bottom feeders complaining about…

This image has already changed the discourse around “migrants” in Britain so, yes, I think it’s necessary. Two of the most right-wing papers have basically changed their position overnight.

Yeah, these images have definitely had an effect over here already. Even the Sun, a horrible tabloid which has always had a xenophobic streak, has changed its tune already. Demands for Cameron to ease up on refugees.

I’m sorry :(

Front page of the Independent tomorrow.

I’m laughing because this is sad and true. Relevant:

That is going from 0 to 50billion in a nanosecond.

I’m constantly tripping over the low bar for men.

No, I have one who posts “well even if it isn’t true, it’s still a good thing to be aware of because something like this could happen.” (Usually after one of those safety/ fear mongering fake police warning type things that Snopes debunks so well).

Yeah, that’s my dad. We’ve finally gotten to the point that he doesn’t flip out when I tell him something doesn’t pass the “smell test.” I encourage him to look for reliable sources in the articles he holds up as fact, and to figure out if there could be any bias there.

When I go running, I fart. A lot. Normally I am running by myself so I just let them rip without shame, or until I am at least far enough away from the person running past me to claim a smelt it dealt it situation. So one night I had gone for a 5 mile jog at this park near my house (shout out to Green Lake) and I…

I know I’m getting married soon, but y’know - if that all falls through, it’s nice to know that Colin Farrell gives good head.