my username finally relates to a post!

I read Kaysen’s book in the early 1990s and then saw the movie later; I confess I didn’t remember Val as black and my response to the film was to appreciate what I read as a politicization of class and race politics when the memoir seemed less political but more philosophical (what is the nature of reality? who gets…

My parents would act lovey dovey in public but hardly spoke at home. They were more interested in giving the facade of a happy marriage than actually having one. Especially my dad. He’d buy a single rose several times a week for her and seemed so happy when cashiers would say they wish their husbands would do the…

It’s fascinating, no? My parents fought like rednecks anywhere and everywhere - the grocery store, my school open house, my sixth grade slumber party, parking lots, my wedding, etc.

For years I thought one of my ex coworkers was reacting to our previous supervisor who was another asshole who made the work environment intolerable. Our current supervisor started about 2 years ago and shes the total opposite of the last one. A lot of things changed for the better since she came aboard and this woman …

Drucie McDaniel, who played M-G in the movie (the woman who shouts obscenities) ended up being one of my acting teachers. It was a great class.

Angelina Jolie didn’t just give an Oscar-nominated performance. It also won one.

Small correction: Jolie wasn’t just Oscar nominated for her performance; she won.

When I was the target of workplace bullying and harassment (by the female political staffer who handled women’s issues for a politician I worked for, I kid you not), I studied the issue.

Anytime I see “Youth Pastor” or “Youth Minister” or some other “I’m paid by a church to work with teens/kids” job... I always have the Pedophile Alarm go off in my brain.  I just can’t NOT think it.  Child predators seek out those jobs on purpose to gain access to vulnerable youth.  I know that not all people who seek…

This incident is NOT funny — Tommy Boy is an asshole — but the Scout Master thing does call to mind that episode of My Name is Earl when Earl asked the inmates of a prison if anyone was a Scout Leader and about half the inmates raised their hands.

Amanda Kondrat’yev was sentenced to 15 days in jail for milkshaking that guy with the large head from Florida. I wonder what this guy will get for actually hitting someone.

Does obviously hurtful and criminal thing, claims he didn’t intend for it to hurt or be criminal. So if someone does something harmful to this guy can their defense be, I didn’t intend for it to be criminal or to hurt him. Even in some twisted way that his brain did the gymnastics required for smacking her butt to not…

If “youth pastor” isn’t the biggest bullshit grifty creeper job as it is...

Christ, it’s always a youth minister and Boy Scout leader. You realize you don’t have to live up (or down) to the stereotypes, right people?

Seriously. “I didn’t realize it was wrong to slap some random lady just trying to do her job on the ass without her consent, I certainly meant no harm by it!” is not the convincing defence these idiots seem to think it is.

ok so Im an elementary teacher and I am struggling to see the value of this assignment period. Like how is naming the price of slaves contributing to anything this person was trying to teach? She could have had them research the historical price of things and used that for wherever this assignment was going and that…

“Did not act with criminal intentions” imsorywhatthefuck?

I’d say I shocked, but — you guessed it — I’m not. Not in the slightest. Arrogant, entitled, self-indulgent little men, ESPECIALLY those who wrap themselves up in the cloak of their ‘religious rightness’, are RARELY (read: never) the saints they imagine themselves to be, or even in the same universe.

Fucking hell, people are still doing this?