This is the hospital I was born at. When I was 2 days old, and still in neonatal ICU, my mother was in a car accident when an intensely drunk man ran his car into the back of her vehicle while she was waiting at a red light. She was declared brain dead and pulled off life support several days later.

I wonder what unit of mass they're thinking of using on labels. I'm an American, and I think I'm much more familiar with what a gram is than what an ounce is. Granted, this was due to a high school science project in which my teacher told me that one packet of sugar is more or less a gram (and one sugar cube is the…

It isn't the prize in your cereal box, it's information. It doesn't have to surprise you to be valuable, and acting like it does is an asshole move.

First of all, you can absolutely shoot someone by accident. If you do something you don't mean to do, or not in the way you mean to do it, it is an accident. I hate guns too, but my politics about the matter do not change the way language works.

As an abnormally tall person, I have some small idea what it is like to squeeze yourself somewhere you don't fit. For me, the discomfort of having my knees press into a seat back in front of me is so intense, I can't imagine feeling that squeeze all over my body. And no one ever looks at me with anger when I'm trying…

I agree, 100% of the point of sleepovers is the not-sleeping. I had one childhood friend I slept over with a handful of times whose parents made it VERY clear that we were expected to go to sleep at the normal hour, no fuss. AND they didn't have a VCR. Those sleepovers barely counted for me.

I think the reality is that if you live a violent life surrounded by a lot of weapons, you are prone to being violent and having weapons around even during times of celebration. The guns thing is not common at all in Khartoum, where the government is powerful, guns are difficult for citizens to get, and violence is…

Sympathy was my first reaction, too, but if you think about it, being shot in the mouth and needing months of surgery is only a few inches away from being shot in the head and dying on the spot. So maybe she's really quite lucky.

I am living in Sudan currently, and this is a custom here as well. Thankfully, none of the weddings I have been at have had this, but I have a friend who is a dentist who has a patient who as shot through the mouth by accident at a wedding, and has required months of reconstructive surgery. It's not even that…

I am living in Sudan currently, and this is a custom here as well. Thankfully, none of the weddings I have been at have had this, but I have a friend who is a dentist who has a patient who as shot through the mouth by accident at a wedding, and has required months of reconstructive surgery. It's not even that…

I agree. I think I'm pretty smart and I know I'm dedicated to not making life worse for others in word or deed, but I am at this moment working on that word out of my vocabulary entirely. No one ever asked me not to use it until a few years ago, and it literally never occurred to me. Because that's privilege. I react…

Consider the OJ Simpson trial - he was found not guilty of the two murder charges against him in the criminal trial, but the families of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman were both awarded punitive damages in the wrongful death civil case they brought later. Something very similar could happen here.

It's normal practice in the entertainment industry to call whoever the performer is "the talent." It's not a critique of their skills, it's a catch-all job title. If you booked Beyonce, you wouldn't be calling her "the singer/dancer/songwriter," you'd just call her "the talent."

Also the only person who used gendered language in this comment thread is you, except for the person above mentioning that his own children are girls. I can understand your knee-jerk, because people are always talking about the relative merits of girl and boy children like that shit isn't a product of the way kids are…

In Greek epic poetry, the characters are not always called by name every time they're mentioned, or not by their name alone a lot of the time. Like, Athena might be called "grey-eyed Athena" at one point, and then just be referred to as the grey-eyed after that. Doug is suggesting that "Antinous of the full-blown…

But the guy on the right has tattoos including cartoon cats and what looks to be the logo Express embroiders on all their polo shirts. Automatic deduction.

Yeah, you think that we don't get the joke. But in reality, we're making fun of you because no one was talking about you yet you tried to insert yourself into the situation anyway.

That's an incredibly sweet story. I think I'm going to save a lot of that permanent, unerasable stuff for when I'm in my 60's or older - marriage and tattoos being two that I've decided specifically can wait until then.

I suspect a cicada killer. It's a type of bee, but they don't sting.

And in the second picture on the marquee, he's clearly looking down at something, which would give anyone a double chin. His jacket is billowing a little, too, which that one dress Kim Kardashian wore was enough to teach me that paps and tabs will literally jump on ANYTHING to make a story.