She *did* make a choice, which was always my pro -choice Catholic mother’s justification for her stance. She says “let it be done unto me.” It was always so important to me, growing up, though I am an atheist now, that one of the Gospels recorded her words of assent. It never says, “terrified and grief stricken Mary…

No you’re just a bad Alabamian. Or a bad Republican.

Thank you dor this comment!

Bless your husband. My mom used to say the same sort of thing.

I would wear a shirt that said DISGRUNTLED TROLLOP. Thinking of changing my screen name. You are a first class wordsmith!

I love the Wonder Woman one! Dude Batsplains everything.

I had the same thought!

Its a walk off

SAME...and I had never heard of Legs Avenue. Fun site, thanks for that!

YES. WHAT?

Love it! My bald grouchy FIL is proud of his baldgrouchyness. My MIL goes crazy for Christmas, so one year I got him a hat that said BAG HUMBUG and a plain black muffler that said THIS IS AS MERRY AS I GET. He rocked it. Your Gru will be Great!

Mine would! Her face is in ALL THE FOOD and I now believe that is a good thing. No creeps snacking in my walls.

You are a father of four? I want to thank you for your service! -Mom of two

I am in love with Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan, and I want to subscribe to her newsletter.

When I was already loopy with sleep deprivation from Baby #2, I was up feeding her at 4 am, and watching PBS. PBS isn’t goung to put on anything scary, right? Well I lucked into a 4 am repeat of American Experience about the fucking DONNER PARTY. And two of the best sources of information about the Donner Party are…

I, a certified baby, watched it by myself in a theater in the middle of the day (my car was in the shop, I think, and I could walk to the theater from the mechanic.) Scared me for weeks.. What a good idea that was, to do that.

SAME. Nigjtmares in 5th grade yo.

My favorite episodes of Mad Men were the ones later in the series where they toured Cuban restaurants and fucked plants.

The Israeli Army discobered that suicide rates plummeted when soldiers could not take their weapons home. Restricting the number of guns in homes, and making it harder to buy them, could, according to the best data we have, reduce suicides. They are violent deaths and should be prevented.