Try living 15 minutes away from a grocery store and having no car, and only $40 to spend per month (split between your two monthly paychecks) and then tell me how easy it is to eat fresh and healthy. You live on canned, boxed, and frozen food, because that’s what is going to last two weeks until you manage to get to…

$40 of meat in a week! When I was at my poorest, I had $40 a month after I paid all of my bills. I lived on rice and beans, boxed meals and frozen foods. I had no car, and had to beg rides twice a month because the closest grocery store was 15 minutes away. That’s two grocery trips per month, so food had to last two…

More likely it’s an issue of scheduling. Having a physician in the family you likely can appreciate that. Many poor people do not have a dependable “weekend.” They have schedules that shift constantly. You’re correct in your assertion that soups are doable on a tight budget, but meatloaf, ribs and pulled pork in the…

I’m going to have to quibble with your assertion that all of that meat you listed there for a week (or maybe two) of food is “super cheap.”

Which leads right back to issues of transportation as well. Try hauling groceries on a bus, it’s SUPER FUN. I’m lucky that I live three blocks from a grocery store now. When I’m without a car, the walk back and forth several times a week for fresh food is exercise, as is carrying my bag back with me. But I have to…

You can get pulled over for going too slow.

No one else who has lived in the house has ever had any problems, and people looking into the Lutzes story have found over a hundred factual errors, from the fact that there was no snow on the ground the day they supposedly saw cloven hooves in the snow to the lack of any calls to the police even though the Lutzes…

How would abortion increase the risk of breast cancer, anyway? Seriously, what is the fake science that they’re standing behind on that one?

They definitely are in the ranks but to me it seems like all of the institutional groups that are working in the pro-life movement are run by men. That goes from politicians to the people who run the orgs.

When will Republicans learn? You have Ted Nugent and Pat Boone music. That’s it. No one else is on your side. I love how they’re all “personal responsibility” and “individual freedoms” except for when it comes to shamelessly stealing the intellectual property of others.

A man telling another man “I’m going to fuck your daughter and your wife” is an age-old insult and NOT sex positive for the women. The women are afterthoughts — possessions of another man to be violated in order to assert dominance. This is absolutely a part of rape culture, and anyone who refuses to admit it is…

You are morally opposed to providing affordable healthcare to the poor? Because that’s what Planned Parenthood does. The Hyde Amendment has blocked tax dollars from being used for abortion since the 70’s.

Oh, they aren’t stupid. The intent is to make women enslaved to their own biology. Otherwise these uppity bitches might think they have rights and shit.

Here’s what really pisses me off. We know how to lower the abortion rate. A strong social safety net, thorough and honest sex education, and broad access to contraceptives. And gee golly, Republicans are against all of that, too. It’s almost as if they don’t actually give a shit about children at all, but are…

When it’s not inside another person’s body. When having rights does not by definition supercede the bodily autonomy of an actual person....the person who is pregnant.

“Want to know why she doesn’t have an order of protection against the father? Because she applied for one, and this judge denied it.”

There’ve been a few. He wanted to uproot the entire family and move to Israel for a job. The mother finally relented and they all went with him, then later she decided to leave — to me, that jives with the kid’s assertion that the dad was beating her.

Exactly. If the 14 year old saw his father beat his mother, as he insists happened, it’s entirely normal for him to not want anything to do with the father.

Her point is that various derailing tactics that are meant to shift the conversation away from its salient points (#notallmen) are bullshit, and advising not to get sucked into them, because then we spend all of our time talking around the topic and zero time talking about the topic.

“with this frequency.” That’s the phrase y’all keep conveniently leaving out.