Re-Open the Asylums

Re-Open the Asylums: A New Take

SarahStook January 6, 2025

It is imperative that we balance compassion with realism and public safety. We must talk about crime,...

Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025New Pope is not pro-choice. Maybe the next one.
Jaybird in reply to Carl Schwent on Weekend Plans Post: Graduation Season (One of the Last Ones)Well, there's the version that he heard from his mom... the version he heard from gramma...
Carl Schwent in reply to Jaybird on Weekend Plans Post: Graduation Season (One of the Last Ones)Now you've got me wondering about all the versions of the story.
Jaybird in reply to fillyjonk on Weekend Plans Post: Graduation Season (One of the Last Ones)Ah, good. It's always good to visit fam and catch up and just sit in the same room with occasional s…
Jaybird in reply to Carl Schwent on Weekend Plans Post: Graduation Season (One of the Last Ones)I have been forbidden from being *TOO* cool. But it's easy to slip an envelope and tell the kiddo "y…
Jaybird in reply to Slade the Leveller on Weekend Plans Post: Graduation Season (One of the Last Ones)Eh, in my circles, a "party" means "hamburgers off the grill" and "relatives slip the grad a little…
Carl Schwent on Weekend Plans Post: Graduation Season (One of the Last Ones)So it sounds like you're the cool uncle.
Jaybird in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/20251. You have the option of laughing at them. 2. Asking people to do the background reading is ableist…
Slade the Leveller on Weekend Plans Post: Graduation Season (One of the Last Ones)I've always been of the (probably unpopular) opinion that no one gets a party for graduating from hi…
LeeEsq in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025There have been a few things about the protest movement that confuses me and nobody seems to have an…