One of the most frustrating things for me to watch as our most recent major political campaigns unfolded, and something that has frustrated me before, is the continual accusation that being unable to stop a particular bad thing from happening means that the candidate somehow etiher wanted that thing to happen, or at the very least didn't care too ( Read more... )

The cliche has it that anyone who is not a liberal at age 20 has no heart, while anyone who is not a conservative at age 40 has no head ( Read more... )

So many messages out there pushing us past our comfort level, pushing us to take risks ( Read more... )

Can we NOT with the conflating of "does not pay Federal Income Tax" and "does not pay taxes ( Read more... )

[Note: "You" is general. I don't mean you personally. There is no one person who set this off, and the person who comes the closest is my 19-year-old self who almost got involved in a certain glorified pyramid scheme, since I was reminded of that recently, and my last-year self who could have easily wrecked my chosen career before it got off the ( Read more... )

[Note: Although this can be read as a stand-alone, why would you want to? :) LJ Idol is doing the Intersection Thing this week, and my beloved spouse (
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( warning for sexual assault, for child abuse, and for NSFW language generally )

[Consider this trigger-warned for Everything Under The Sun, at least in passing, though mostly for mental illness-related Fail ( Read more... )

[Food/weight/ED trigger warning. Also CPS-related ranting.]

"News" stories like this need to stop.

( Why? )

[Rant. May be NSFW. Warnings: sexual language, people being stupid about mental illness.]

( also cutting for length )