an AV Club commenter making excuses or a white woman? I’m shocked I tell you. Shocked.

Naw...if your first instinct is to go after the victims, and only apologize after you’ve been forced to see the error of your ways...
That’s not a mistake, that’s the goddamn issue of why women have been oppressed into silence.

Country artists have been outdoing every other genre in support of and appreciation of their fans for decades.

The Swift reports are wearing the F outta me. She says “Stephanie, you’ve been in my life for a long time.” She does Stephanie a solid. But by all accounts she didn’t really know Stephanie. I wouldn’t expect her to know Stephanie anymore than I would expect her to know me.

Oh I can pour it on. Here’s our foster dog last year and his lonesome eyes. He’s hypnotizing you...”be my friend, you will not be sorry.”

Um, this whole look is A+. I’m feeling more christmassy already!

I’ve never done the ugly Christmas sweater thing.

Yes, yes, apples and oranges. Exactly the kinds of things we will send these stolen children to harvest from the orchards. This guy gets it!

 A restructure in my work environment means i will have to spend enough time in Canada that I will need a work visa. I am seriously considering taking that to the next logical conclusion and jumping ship.

I’m thinking they’ll be sold out to people like the nutjob who was shot by the FBI at that wildlife center standoff, who had dozens of foster children sent to his ranch by the state and he was using them as free labor.

Isn’t this just a recipe that leaves those children (more) vulnerable to all types of abuse (physical, mental, sexual, etc.) in these centers and their (probably not) vetted sponsors? Beyond the sheer disgust of separating children from their parents when they are all obviously fleeing some other terror, won’t this…

It may be that the desert is simply too deadly in hot weather. If you ever want a truly horrifying account of a group of immigrants crossing the Sonora Desert in August, check out The Devil’s Highway, by Luís Alberto Urrea. It’s very eye-opening.

Certainly we can at least compare the centers to interment camps for Japanese Americans

The new policy would place parents in adult detention centers and send children to juvenile detention centers or placed with a “sponsor” who lives in the US.

If you can afford an expensive car you can afford these wipes,

Even better, if you don’t just not-hate birds and actively love them: plantnbird-friendly trees in your yard (northern bayberry and winterberry in the Northeast) and read about Agroforestry. This kind of farming creates a small forest that many tropical birds love and use. If you’ve ever heard about shade-grown…

An original story maybe????? Kind of not feeling another dude film remade with female leads and then calling it “progressive”

I’ve missed Bullock and I forgot how much I love her. She’s the best when she’s playing kooky-funny.

Oh yeah I totally get that. It’s probably too strong an analogy to use it as therapy. I shouldn’t have phrased it that way. And none of my fave teachers are really trying to get into the nitty gritty of why and how this happened. It’s much more superficial than that. Like hey how are you this week. Even I’m a little…