Why indeed? I bet the trip there, the hotel, sightseeing and all of that is somehow free to all of them from donated money from anti-abortion peeps who think these nuts are doing the lord’s work.

Outside a few relative oases such as Boise, much of Idaho is [barely] enduring horrific poverty. I’d wonder: why aren’t they ministering to their own regional communities? Perhaps my wicked, wordly priorities prevent me from understanding the obvious.

Not just “discourage” but actively deceive them. With enough delaying and stringing them along, while pretending to include abortion as a possible option, they can get women past the point where abortion is legal, and then it will no longer be an option.

If you need an abortion and you live in Northern Ireland, you need to go to England, not the UK. Northern Ireland is part of the UK.

They just let an Indian woman, who was neither Irish nor Catholic, die a painful death because they refused to remove the fetus from her body that was killing her while it still had a heartbeat, like last year. So fuck these people. Why the hell they felt the need to go to a place that is already that horrible is…

What if we put it towards developing infrastructure or eradicating hunger or disease or something?

Yup. Drama, moral superiority, and a trip. This is the forced-birth equivalent of a mission trip to the tropics.

Plus, it’s illegal to have an abortion in Northern Ireland unless you can show your life in danger. If you have a fetus with a lethal abnormality you can’t get an abortion there. If you are 12 year old who was raped by her father, you cannot get a legal abortion. You have to go elsewhere in the UK. Like, they have the…

We are now exporting our crazy white Idaho people. And with a gov official there to lend legitimacy to the whole craziness. Good lord that is some fucked up shit...

“Alcohol is a sin. This is why I’m going to Salt Lake City to protest drinking.”

This reminds me of when my six-inches-shorter sister moved in with me and my then-husband for awhile and she asked if she could rearrange the entire kitchen so she could reach things.

As a 5”7 woman I have clearly been wandering through life blind to my kitchen privilege. Although I did end up washing a lot of dishes at a retreat centre with a sink that was three or four inches lower than standard - I came out with a sore back and a conviction that the designer was clearly a nutter. Is this how…

Personally I would love something like that, but I’m not sure how great of an idea that would be. Unless it was universally adjustable - which would be inordinately expensive and prone to breaking - it would probably screw up the resale value of your home.

I’m 5ft 7 and find that counters are just about 1-2 inches too high for repetitive chopping. Luckily, I have inset cutting boards that pull out as a second counter and are exactly the right height. I love those things! I wonder if Ikea et al will start designing kitchens for taller people now that men do a lot of…

A friend of mine hosted a “wine party” a few years back. I had another friend in town visiting, so she tagged along with me. We are by no means wine connoisseurs by any stretch of the imagination, but we both brought a bottle of something we liked: a nice malbec for her and a lovely vinho verde for me.

Honestly, you sound fun. The worst are the people who insist they want a dry wine, because they’ve been told that’s what sophisticated people like, but what they really want is a glass of your sweetest Riesling with a lollipop dissolved in it for good measure. So they keep sending back perfectly lovely wines until you…

Grenadine was the only thing that made Zima drinkable. Yeah, I’m old.

“The Hangar” just makes me gag uncontrollably. I mean, I like well-prepared steak tartare (which is waaay different from undercooked hamburger). I loathe eggs where the white hasn’t set, they make me puke. I could not watch this customer eat this monstrosity.

I remember many years ago when I was working at a group home I took a couple of the clients to Old County Buffett. (IME developmentally disabled people are epic in their devotion to bland American comfort food.) One of the guys got mixed up and put chocolate pudding on his salad instead of dressing. He realized he got…