Absolutely, the iPhone/Android debate! I'm used to Androids and I really, really love their ease, but I have to say that my Samsung Galaxy s3 was a POS. The Androids I'd had before were POSes. I don't think it's the platform; I think it's the manufacturers. I used to be smug with my iPhone friends, but after my s3…

YES!!!!!!!

Actually, his short stories are very smart without all the preamble and minutiae.

I am still so fucking askeered from "Look at Me" that here is a dog in front of a fireplace:

Okay, "Look At Me" scared the everliving FUCK out of me. As I sit here typing this comment, I keep looking over my shoulder, since my computer chair faces the wall and my back is to the door. It's middle of the day, bright and sunny, but I'm alone in the house right now and SCARED SHITLESS.

MissAnnThropist's story has been bothering me since I read it last night. I just have to say something. I'm not disputing the veracity of her story; I'm irritated at the implications that Chestnut Lodge and the mentally ill are scary. Chestnut Lodge was a haven for the best and brightest psychotherapists at one time.…

My husband and I have remarked since about the second episode how very sad this season seems to be. We watched last night's episode this evening and I turned to him, while Mordrake was talking to Twisty, and said, "They're gonna make me feel sorry for a scary, serial-killer clown, aren't they!" And surely enough . .…

Pretty much every story in this entire comments section has me massive eye-rolling, but this . . . . OHMYFUCKINGJESUSFUCKINGGOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Holy fucking fuck!!! Just fucking NOOOOOOOOOOPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A big one that I'm noticing is a much greater acceptance of LGBTQ in people under 30 and the acceptance of marriage equality. Greater tolerance of marijuana usage. Cars (some of them, anyway) are cleaner, and they are definitely safer. Also, and this is important to my profession, there is greater acceptance of…

On a related note, I sit with my tablet while my husband and I are watching a TV show or a movie so I can have IMDB at my fingertips. The fact that I can stream NPR at home if I'm in my office and miss hearing Terri Gross or listen to a podcast of a "This American Life" is something I now take for granted, and…

I am very familiar with all of the sans serif fonts. I use them all the time. Comic Sans included.

Not sure what your point is, here. I love sans serif fonts, one of which happens to be Comic Sans. To say that all sans serif fonts are better than Comic Sans is an opinion I don't share with you.

I don't understand the haterade poured all over Comic Sans. I love love LOVE sans serif fonts — they're not fussy or pretentious. I don't get the "immature" condescention toward it at all.

I do not see K. J. Parker's name mentioned here enough!

Yeah, I hate that movie because Mel and Joaquin forget to bring the dogs in the house! What kind of an idiot leaves their dogs outside during an alien invasion?? I will automatically hate a movie where an alien kills a dog. Or a human kills a dog. Or a bear kills a dog. But especially an alien.

Thanks. I'm clearly in need of being reminded that I'm in this godforsaken place for a reason.

I'm so sorry for your losses, Annalee. What you have written is powerful. The parent I am attached to is still living, but when he goes, I will never, ever "move on." Not in the cliched way. I lost my very best friend years ago — she died too young from her alcoholism — and I am still reeling. I still talk to her. I…

I'm a clinical psychologist in a rural area. I say rural; I reeeeeeeally mean rural! Urban psychologists have NO IDEA what it means to practice in the sticks, and it's an ongoing feeling of bitterness for me. Sometimes, I feel very isolated. On the other hand, I love every single one of my patients and they are all my…

I never do. Ever. That was not my complaint, though. I was talking about the caller's assumption that I would call him/her back simply because I noticed a missed call. That really irritates me.

I'm so sorry for your loss. I agree with voicemail being a good thing. I am definitely an old, but I am also a busy old. If I see a missed call without a voicemail, I assume that the call was not important. I'm fine with texting, but I have a land line in my office (for many reasons, not because I'm grumpy and…