thank you so much, poppet, for this thoughtful response! and i’m so sorry for your loss.

thank you for this! what a blessing to receive such a message of hope and understanding.

i’m reaching out to my beloved jezzies for some support tonite. i just returned to my parents’ home after spending the day with my dad, who’s in intensive care on a ventilator. things are not looking good for him, and it absolutely breaks my heart. he was diagnosed with a super aggressive leukemia in 2011, and despite…

i loved visiting the basilica cistern in istanbul, and it’s close to the aya sofya, if you’re going to see that. i also recommend the cafe mangerie bebek for a perfect turkish breakfast overlooking the bosphorus.

yes.

dude. i had bad turkey in 2004 and still remember it acutely. i cannot say the word “salmonella” to either of my parents, it provoke such a visceral response.

regarding yoko, #blessed is obnoxious, and the new age version of “god never gives you more than you can handle” is worse. at the least, her bullshit tweets could avoid these tired cliches.

came here to say the same thing. being pregnant is far more dangerous than terminating a pregnancy.

“deaths related to abortion complications estimated at 0.70 per 100,000 performed.”

wait, but why DO they earn so little? my reading comprehension may be currently compromised, but i didn’t see an answer to that.

i saw her at webster hall when she was santogold, and i too was entranced. an amazing, amazing show. with her dancers? fucking amazing.

i am so delighted i stumbled unawares into a jimmy carter worship thread!

+1 to michael ian black!

as a teacher, i am ashamed of the way this poor child’s teacher and administrator responded to her needs, to say nothing of the sro. the adults in her life had an obligation, both professional and moral, to recognize and address her needs during this difficult time in her life. i might even assert that if she had been…

as a teacher, i am glad to learn that the sro’s actions were not “proper procedure” at this school. teens can be infuriating to us adults at times, but it is the responsibility of every single adult in the school to model self control, peaceful conflict resolution, and respect for others at all times. it’s a burden…

you know, i was in the leggings-aren’t-pants camp until this very moment. i have been converted. let there be leggings for all!

i’m just proud i know at least one word of slang still in usage. don’t ask me how to use “ratchet” in a sentence, for example.

my grandmother was also a look-on-the-bright-side type, but it ended up being pathological in her. she simply does not acknowledge that anything could be wrong, ever, and will happily dismiss any pain experienced by others. i was molested when i was a child, and about ten years later she actually dated the man who…

i heard it called tina 15 years ago. i am old.

my first response is whoop-de-fuckin-do, except apparently these clubs form the basis of the power elite in our country. so, welcome to the 20th century, fuckers. maybe they’ll even let them girls wear pants, a thing my mother fought for at plain ol university of georgia back in 1969 (where admissions requirements for…