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....If only everyone who ended up doing hard drugs was raised in a nice, level-headed environment which engendered high amounts of self-confidence and esteem and imparted myriad stress-reduction mechanisms aside from substance abuse.

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Being aware of autism - but not actually giving a shit about helping - is pretty much the same philosophy as having access to health care, but not being able to actually afford it. Read more

Maybe the cheerleaders did something completely disgusting and amoral, like going to a restaurant with a married man. Read more

It’s probably a blatant subconscious refusal to accept that the 90s were 20 years ago, which I fully understand.
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This is yet another reminder that having a child does not suddenly make you an expert on literally anything, and that the act of birth is something that literally billions upon billions of people around the world, both very smart and incredibly fucking dumb, have done throughout millenia. Read more

This article hits home for me. I was paralyzed at the age of 21 in 2014, and while I’ve had a very lucky recovery, I will always face a lifetime of related medical costs. I know that there are millions of people in similar situations, and it filled me with rage to watch Paul Ryan give that fucking PowerPoint Read more

Gamers are so coddled these days. Why, back in my youth, moons threatened all life as we know it, FALLING FROM THE HEAVENS THEMSELVES! Read more

Can I just remind you that the original reason they got a reality show is because a morbidly obese white trash mother had a morbidly obese white trash family and specifically a fat rednecky child who entered beauty pageants and people enjoyed laughing at them? What a time to be alive. Read more

Using your own analogy, she let the insurance lapse, then paid the agent for a new policy but was still getting delayed and dicked around by the home office when the agents decided to burn her house down to teach her a lesson. A little different. Read more

Oh yeah? Well, I’m spreedrunning “Waiting for Zelda to be delivered.” Read more

They haven’t made it into the comments yet but the Trump supporters are using a tweet by Claire McCaskill where she said that she met with the Russian Ambassador about overseas adoptions and the fact that today she says she never met the ambassador as a massive false equivalency. Read more