It’s a pittie party!

no cry, Lily wubs you.

Same, sort of... I used to drink a LOT and ended up with various marks, and the worst thing to me was thinking that someone might think my husband had caused them. It would have to be an utter stranger because he is the nicest man in the world, but still.

You're really missing our Mark Shrayber, aren't you :D

Adorable adoptable pitbull picture party below!

Taking this little guy in tomorrow for risky back surgery, and hoping he’ll pull through.

Holy moon goddess. I think we’ve all synched up...

I got a black eye from my own clumsiness and when I tried to cover it up all I could think of was the other women who were covering it up too. For different reasons, hoping not to be asked about it. It’s such a powerfully evocative image.

It isn’t always up to the victim whether the rapist faces legal consequences. Going is fraught with complications and the decision to bring charges is up to the legal system, not the victim.

Because most rapes are nonstranger rapes (80% to 85%), and some are raped by an boyfriend or husband, most victims (who often blame themselves at least at first) don’t report it to the police or wait to report it to the police because they are still processing what happened, thus they are almost impossible to prove in…

I do not like this trend of making rapists the subject of social media shaming instead of treating them like the real criminals they are.

Some white people think THEY are fine, it’s the rest of humanity that is terrible. Then there are those like me who think 95% of humanity are grotesque monsters, regardless of race, and that we should go extinct as a favor to the planet and the other species that live on it.

Maggie Smith is priceless. <3

Yes! I have two dogs, and while I love them both very much, I’m not remotely kidding when I refer to one of them as my soulmate. I’ve had and loved pets my whole life, but I have never had a relationship like this with an animal before. Buster’s only three, and I already get teary when I think about how short his life…

No kidding. I could never understand why wedding dresses were almost* never rented like men’s tux’s are. I asked once, and after the glares/WTF kind of question is that looks subsided, was told they were kept for sentimental reasons. Except now there are ‘trash-the-dress’ things, so now a woman can spend thousands on…

Have you ever balled as hard as these newlyweds at Saturday’s Minnesota Wild game?

The article sorta glazes over a really important bit of history - the establishment of Geographic Information Science and Epidemiology by John Snow. He worked out the central source for cholera in Soho by using geographic analysis, going against all prevailing scientific theory of the day. Its a really fascinating…

I post long: but I need to tell this and I hope maybe ya’ll can get some use out of it. If somebody would pull me of gray I would be thankful.

This one’s hopefully a palate cleanser after some of the other stories.

Also, because of your user name, I’ll also confess that when I do get paranoid, I often get hypertuned to my cats’ moods. Calm and relaxed? Okay, calm down. There’s no ghost here. Hyperfocused or avoiding a certain area of the house? THEY CAN SENSE GHOSTS EVERYONE KNOWS IT.