Haha sorry! My mom, as I said, was a paramedic while I was growing up, and she LOVED to talk about her day at work over the table. I have no meter for what is appropriate conversation, plus I can eat through anything.

Just remember that some people are born to greatness, and some people are made to whine on the internet about shit that doesn't matter.

I'm trying to say you and exactly 2 other people are behaving like a moron. Sorry if that was opaque, hope this clears it up. If you have any further questions, feel free to ask.

Yes. To be honest, whenever I feel down about myself, coming on the internet and realizing that I am superior to you, yes you personally, gives me the strength to carry on.

We do, however, get to decide who is being a hysterical idiot in public. I count three! Congratulations!

Speepy is that thing where you have to find your way to the bathroom still nine-tenths asleep because it just won't wait til morning.

Oh man I love this. I haven't even read the article, I'm just so delighted that we have reached the apotheosis of people loudly, nay, proudly! proclaiming their mental state of "I am going to allow you to explain, but I am balancing on a knife's-edge of moral outrage over ABSOLUTELY NOTHING right now!" in the comments.

It does make some kind of sense. When I was young, my paramedic-mom told me that every car crash is actually made of 3 separate impacts - the actual impact of the vehicles together, the impact of the body against the car's interior and/or flying objects in the car, and the impact of internal parts of the body against…

Margaret Atwood's emoticons are cuter than all other emoticons, and I will hear no argument.

I have a similar experience - my paternal grandpa lived until 1916 in a village in Germany that, he says, no longer existed after the first World War. I don't know if he ever even told anybody its name, just that it was gone.

There used to be a Tumblr of Kim Jong Il looking at stuff - just official photos from all his visits to various industries around North Korea. And that's when I realized that my (white, Norwegian) grandpa looks like the Great Leader.

I think it's a problem a lot of Americans have - not that you're American, I don't know you, but it's a thing. I can trace my mom's family back about 120 years, but as soon as you cross the ocean, it's over. Same with my dad's family, everything prior to the first world war is gone, and that despite my grandfather…

I really appreciate the preemptive calling-out of those people who will be tripping over their own tongues trying to be the first to explain away every idiosyncrasy in every story, no matter how rude or stupid. I am 90% sure this trend is due to people who are equally badly behaved or regularly stupid in public who…

The part of this that grates on me so much is the claims that this woman is screaming her head off for attention and self-promotion. Personal blogging has been a popular thing to do since at least 1994, how are people still confused about the fact that it involves talking about yourself, usually in a not-entirely…

But then what is the point of a blog? Seriously, if you hate the whole genre of personal blogs, fine, but they exist for a reason and talking about your life is it. And I don't know this woman's personal pageview numbers, but it seems likely that she wasn't writing for an audience of millions - or even thousands -…

I am super interested to know how Tracy's going to react when she realizes she's fucked up some aspect of her child's rearing (as I think all parents do), without resorting to "hypocrisy," as the word is used in this article, to mean "changing the behaviors that got my family into this situation."

Not even the divinity of Christ is a universal belief of Christianity, so if you can name one I'd be interested.

Literally nothing is a universal belief, even if we're just talking about wider Christianity. But it is Catholic doctrine, which does make it very much the Original Flavor of working out how your religious cosmology fits together, and also is specifically the school of cosmology that is referenced in the article.

You might be on to something, I can't say you aren't, but I remember being like 15 and seeing Puddle of Mudd's first major music video, whatever it was, on MTV, and thinking, no woman who was similarly unattractive would ever be fronting a music venture that anyone would ever hear of.

That was kind of my point - that the Immaculate Conception is the one that has to do with Jesus being born without sin, whereas the virginity thing has to do with Jesus' divinity, not with his sinless nature. I mean, you're not going to be baking your Jesus cookies without having both ingredients on hand, but that…