Mike McBride

"Audrey, Since I was never involved in any official court proceedings, I can't really speak to what level of trauma takes place or whether anyone is ever forced to be involved against their will. (Personally I think it should be your choice as to whether to testify or be involved). The one thing that I want to address though, is the comment you made about creating a persona that is in complete control of their lives, and when that control is ripped away it is too much for them. I do think we try to control every little thing in our lives as we grow up with being abused, and it is a way to try and protect ourselves. However, I don't think it is actually possible to control your life in that way. Something is always going to rip that control away, whether it be other people, the weather, or a whole host of things that we cannot actually control. Healing, to me, is not hiding away from anything I can't control and living a limited life where I only interact with things I can control, it's..." - Mike McBride

"I've always thought the same thing about the encouragement to like or share something on Facebook "if you care", when if you really cared you might do something that takes more than half a second." - Mike McBride

"No question that it does open up the possibility of some experimentation now that Google won't be dominating the RSS reader space. Still, I have to wonder about their reasoning. If the general public really is just relying on Facebook, Twitter and Google+ to act as their news aggregator, it changes things, and it's going to make it harder to get noticed." - Mike McBride