Comments on: The Inner Sting

By: Jeri

Jeri — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:45:26 +0000

Bill & Melinda Gates are capitalist cunts busy destroying public education via their foundations. And it;’s not simplistic to believe there is enough money to go around, there is, it’s just being re-directed to Bill Gates, et al. and away from little old starving ladies and disabled children. It’s not just the republicans who are out to gut government services and sell them off to their corporate sponsors. I too feel helpless but it helps a little to start recognizing the enemy- capitalism sucks for the many and is a boon to the few lucky Bills at the top.

Your blog gives me joy in a joyless life. Thank you for posting your thoughts and from what I read being an outstanding human.

By: Mooo-lissa

Mooo-lissa — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 03:05:06 +0000

*want to kill myself

(Darn phone)

By: Mooo-lissa

Mooo-lissa — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 03:04:12 +0000

I want a calendar, too!
And I agree with Ali and Dana — I need your blog and I adore you. Sister, last year I was so depressed (or was it this year? eh, it was recently) and I found your blog and felt so inspired by your intelligence, wit & compassion that I read for like 8 hours straight. And at the end of my reading, I didn’t wnt ro kill myself. I wrote you a note & you wrote a sweet reply. You are a great person and such a GREAT WRITER!!!! Can you publish your posts on Tumblr? Somewhere they can go viral? Because you are an influencer & I thinkore people need to know about you. Let your inner sister wolf out, (insert real name here)! The world needs her.

By: Marky

Marky — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 01:32:41 +0000

I love Hammie. And I would buy one of those calendars.

By: Cricket9

Cricket9 — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 16:07:31 +0000

I can’t get this picture out of my head. I may be able to say something coherent once I get over it.

By: Jaimi

Jaimi — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 17:38:15 +0000

I struggle with this one, too. For a brief time I had this delusion that I would learn another language and do relief work, do something not horrible with my college degree.( But it didn’t exactly turn out that way! And I didn’t much want to get into voluntourism anyway!)

Photographs like this, something totally treatable and preventable in western countries, kill me.

I don’t have any good answers, but I do think that some ailing of malaise lies in helping others and you’d be great at that. There are so may big huge problems beyond us as individuals – maybe starting local could be more effective? I don’t know.

It’s so totally fucked because I still cling onto this simplistic idea that there’s enough money to go around and that it’s kind of a made up concept in the first place, so let’s just take care of everyone as best as we can? But it usually doesn’t end up working out that way.

Also happy birthday!

By: dana

dana — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 02:53:06 +0000

I adore you. I adore you. I don’t know what I can do, either. But look at our employment rate of 59%. It’s not like the old days where we can grow beans and shoot dinner, ya know. If they don’t give us jobs, they’re not worthy of the name “job creators.” They are the evil, the overlords, the Capitol.

I desperately wish I knew what to do, too. I work and raise my kids. I have no life other than this. My husband says he “helps,” but this is part of the problem. I don’t need help. I need a partner, one who understands we must do all the things, plus save for college, retirement, and somehow keep this dump from collapsing around us.

You are so terribly much smarter than I am, so I trust you to find a cause and be the light that understands and says we must keep going becuase so many need us. Suicide? K-12 education? Higher edu tuition? Homlessness? Whatever. You can be the compelling voice.

Which isn’t really enough, is it? I have to get down with the people to believe I’ve ever been anything but a “watcher and listener.” Why is it so difficult? why can’t we be someone’s everything, not just our children’s? Why have I drunk so much wine?

I adore you. Please keep living.

By: Hammie

Hammie — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 23:08:56 +0000

Make a calendar and sell it for charity. The theme can be “Fucking Cunts” Ask Sting to be Mr January.

By: ali

ali — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 21:24:27 +0000

Well, you’ve helped me, for one. I am not a person who is in most need of your services, but I appreciate them nonetheless.

Your voice has had an impact on the way I think about some items of significance.

The more of a presence and impact YOU have on the world, the better. Just the blog is enough – but more is better.

By: Dj

Dj — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 16:50:30 +0000

Your heart is in the right place sister…I have a Billionaire cousin who I often think ” why the hell can’t he give money to this and that” I know he has given a great deal of money to his fucking alma football team. Millions! I hope he also thinks of those in greater need. I loathe college athletics and all those entitled twerps….anyway, you can do something. Plan to put a limit aside every year and make a donation. People tell me I need to volunteer, but I can’t get myself out there…you’re ok…..