Freaked out about it. See how disturbing snakes can be?

It’s actually been on the loose for over a month. I live many states away and was still freaked out it.

The guy has a history of doing this, too: http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2013/06/28/rep…

I remember someone saying in a Gawker comment (so I don’t know how many grains of salt it needs to be taken with) that when she lived in San Francisco, she was pretty humble and always willing to work with any charities that approached her. I’ve been keeping that image of her in mind, so now I feel disappointed.

Why are all of the comments about fraternities/Greek life and not about another lack of decency by the administration of good old Ag School?

My sister announced her engagement at my graduation party. A couple of years later, when she got pregnant with her first kid, who was also the first grandchild on one side of the family, she told people about it at our cousin’s wedding. She is still the worst: This summer she’s having her third wedding (third!) at a…

You mean the paper that would run a cover like this would somehow find a “scandal” about the Clintons?

ITA. The first few times I watched “The One Where Ross and Rachel Take a Break” (and yes, I have watched Friends repeatedly), I could feel my blood pressure shoot through the roof when he went to her office and brought a picnic even though she had already told him she was snowed under at work. How presumptuous can you…

Since when does biblical reasoning equal sound reasoning?

Why are they even making it out of the gray?

I live in Philadelphia, and there was usually very little coverage of this event in the local media until the past few years, and it's been increasing each time. It's so blatant that the Penn State PR department has been going into overdrive to try to make everyone forget about the football scandal.

Heh. Sun Valley graduate myself, so I loved all the Delco references in Bossypants.

My favorite book when I was a kid (in the '60s) was The Empty Schoolhouse by Natalie Savage Carlson. I bought a copy a few years back, and it was amazing how much still came back to me after all this time, such was the impression it left. You can get hold of used copies online.

Ahem. Christy Turlington.

I've been to readings/signings by some pretty illustrious authors or at least very famous people—Margaret Atwood, Sherman Alexie, Nick Hornby, Roddy Doyle, Jane Fonda—and they never had opening acts or t-shirts.

No such thing as a "national chapter." A chapter is a branch of the larger organization.

I think you mean "defused."

I think you mean "defused."