I need some help managing anger, depression, and sadness. More specifically, I need to figure out some way for my boyfriend to control his urges to beat the crap out of random people and for me to control my deep depression. The back story is that we are both recent law school graduates. My boyfrien...

That's Greta Garbo. Every once in awhile I'll see someone who says she's fed up and wants to be left alone. I think it's a Greta Garbo line, I 'vant to be alone, but it's not hers exclusively. Greta doesn't own it. A person can have a million reasons for wanting to be alone, but one of the more inte...

Well, here’s a BIG surprise: the Democrats say they don’t have the votes to pass the Employee Free Choice Act: he president’s party simply lacks the votes to break a GOP filibuster of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), the No. 1 priority of the labor movement that’s headed ...

So, Here's A Thing That Sucks. Got a letter from my mom the other day, notifying me that my great aunt, who took me in nearly every weekend while I was in the Philippines and fed me...stuff...and FISH!...and PORK!...has developed what looks like extensive cancer of the liver. She's got 6 months to l...

I yelled at someone tonight who deserved to be yelled at but I now really wish I could have kept my cool. How does one keep their cool while getting the point across to someone that they're incompetent? Here's the background: I've been doing preproduction for a job while juggling other jobs for the ...

"We want the dead to rest easy, knowing their obligations are taken care of."MICHAEL GINSBERG, of Kaulkin Ginsberg, a consulting company to the debt collection industry. -- NY Times I personally believe the debts of the dead should be erased. The fact that prick insinuates the dead won't rest easy i...

It is not common sense or compassion as much as necessity which drove the state of Pennsylvania to offer early release to some non-violent offenders .   Overcrowded prisons helped to prompt the offer of opportunity for offenders to transition back into society sooner through various programs.  Pa...

Why is everything pissing me off today? Well, almost, everything! I'm about to flip. As of last night, almost everything has been pissing me off. While trying to replace a makeshift heat curtain over some leaky windows in my apartment, I got testy on the phone with my father, and broke a set of wind...

“The hardest part of all this is my loss of security and my lack of control over my own finances and future. I feel vulnerable and completely powerless to change any of this. It angers me that other people are determining my fate. Especially since they are doing such a pathetic job of it.� ~Dawn...

Sometimes the killer of relationships isn’t a lack of trust, a lack of communication or arguing with your significant other. It’s simple indifference. A relationship can survive most things if both people involved in it are committed to the other person and act with respect toward the ot...