Rachel Fairbank

“So in summary, hockey is speed, skill, chaos and trust issues. Played on ice. With knives on your feet.”

“If the game is tied, we go to overtime, which is just hockey, but louder and scarier.”

“You are also allowed to fight in hockey. The refs do not stop it. They just wait until both players are tired and emotionally satisfied.”

“If you break a rule, you go to a penalty box, which is basically a glass room where adults sit alone and rethink their life choices for two minutes.”

“There are rules in hockey. You would not know this watching hockey.”

“The game is played in three periods because two periods would make sense and hockey refuses to do that.”

“The other five players skate around chasing the puck like it owes them money and insulted their family.”

“There are six players on the ice per team. One of them is the goalie, whose job is to block a puck flying at the speed of a bad decision. They do this with their body. On purpose.”

“The goal is simple. You take a small rubber puck that is like a small, angry cookie, and you try and put it in a net while six other people try and stop you using violence that is somehow legal.”

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“Hockey is the sport where people looked at ice and thought, yes, this is where we should run at full speed.”

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“You keep the potential boss’s habits in mind,” is a hell of a way to say, “I know this guy is a predator, and I’m perfectly okay with sending potential prey his way.”

Whoever this woman is, I hope she’s okay, but I fear that she’s not.

“Did I get the recommendation based on my skills or my appearance?”

Being a woman is a lot of fun, that’s for sure.

The stuff coming out about the Epstein files is incredibly hard to read right now. In light of all of these new revelations, I hope all my fellow survivors are taking time to care for their mental health.

Catherine O'Hara, Emmy-winning comic actor of 'Schitt's Creek' and Home Alone' fame, dies at 71 Catherine O'Hara has died at 71. The Emmy-winning actor was known for her roles on “SCTV,” “Schitt's Creek,” and the two “Home Alone" films.

RIP Catherine O’Hara, you were a real one.

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I’ve been stuck in the house for two days with a hyperactive six-year-old. At this point, all that matters is survival.

My son had ice cream for breakfast and was an hour late to school.

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People keep comparing what’s happening now to Nazi Germany, but I suspect the more realistic comparison is slavery/segregation, as so much of our current horrors are based on this history.

ICE executed an ICU nurse in broad daylight in full view of the public.

This has nothing to do with immigration. It’s about sending a message.

The fascists want violence. They want to justify more brutality.

I come from a family of nice white folks who pretended racism was in the past. It’s taken me a long time to understand just how harmful that was, and I don’t want to repeat my family’s mistakes. However, not wanting to repeat mistakes doesn’t always mean you know how.

My son is learning about Martin Luther King and Ruby Bridges in school. I’m glad he’s learning this history, I’m glad he feels comfortable asking me questions about it, but coming up age appropriate explanations that don’t sugarcoat history is hard.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

My son may have been born in Texas, but he’s currently rocking the New York cold weather uniform of shorts with a winter jacket.

‘Fled Cruz?’ Viral image fuels claims that Sen. Ted Cruz left Texas ahead of arctic blast As Texas braces for another round of severe winter weather, a viral social media post has reignited scrutiny of one of the state’s most prominent political figures.

OK, now I’m worried about the winter storm headed to Houston.

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I'm really glad to see Elizabeth Smart openly talking about some of the ways in which Mormon beliefs/culture contributed to her experiences. Mormonism can mess you up in ways that are very long-lasting.

Raised Mormon, Elizabeth Smart Forges Her Own Path “I don’t believe anything anyone sells me anymore.”

I’d just been kidnapped and raped by a middle-aged man using the guise of religion, and then these men are there — it felt like the same situation, and I was being backed into a corner yet again,” she tells host Krista Smith.

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Raised Mormon, Elizabeth Smart Forges Her Own Path “I don’t believe anything anyone sells me anymore.”

“I was being interviewed by two middle-aged men who were both clearly religious … all of these ingredients made that situation just about unbearable for me.

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Raised Mormon, Elizabeth Smart Forges Her Own Path “I don’t believe anything anyone sells me anymore.”

"Elizabeth recounts how even her post-rescue interviews were deeply re-traumatizing, especially because they were conducted by men with the sense of faith she’d grown up with — the same sense of faith her captor had warped to justify his cruelty."

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Raised Mormon, Elizabeth Smart Forges Her Own Path “I don’t believe anything anyone sells me anymore.”

“I don’t know how many lessons I had on ‘don’t have sex before marriage,’ ” Elizabeth says in the documentary. “But no one had discussed with me the difference between consensual sex [and] intimacy versus rape. I felt a lot of shame, and I felt like I was filthy.

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My husband has clocked that I’ve started working on my book again. Apparently the tell is that I will randomly stop what I’m saying/doing, only to stare off in the distance.

The absent-minded writer is in the building, y’all.

You cannot overstate how startling it is to see a politician just say the thing with clarity and poise. No fearful hemming. No overwrought qualifying down til it’s meaningless. No lingering sense that there is a loyalty to a donor class or an ideology of stasis that they’d never admit to.