I can’t find an empty development lot in the Bay Area for less than $500k much less a full-ass house.

What can those of us in blue states/districts do? I live in California and luckily I can trust my legislators to do the right thing, so calling them seems pointless. I want to make a difference but I don’t know how when I feel like I’m just preaching to the choir. What else can we do?

I am skinny-fat, eat like a college student, and don’t really exercise, but I would like to start lifting. One of my friends (who let it be said is not qualified to give medical or fitness advice...) claims that because I don’t put on fat-weight, I will probably have a harder time building muscle-weight as well. Is…

This is 100% true. I looked at her and my first thought was, "wow, she must have had a shitty surgeon to end up with that level of scarring etc", and I HATE that that was my thought. I'm in denial that anything can cause a living body (especially, as a woman, my own) to look like that, and I'm glad that she did this.…

God bless you for not telling us to bread them. I moved away from Buffalo a couple years ago and I don't regret any part of that decision except now I can't get any goddamn proper wings anymore.

Hey, just establishing my threshold ;)

Yeah, I'm not sure why the LW can't just say, "Hey, I'm not comfortable hearing people's sex stories," and leave the past-crush out of it altogether.

My favorite: "Your boyfriend makes Firefox, right? Can he help me sign into Words with Friends?"

ME TOO. Not that I believe that something is actually there, but that I will see something logical (washcloth, bug, whatever) that my brain will interpret as scarything and then I won't be able to go back to sleep.

I used to figure skate, and I would be scared of falling over backward with such force that my skates fly up and the toepicks gouge my eyes out.

Also, it was a PERSONAL blog. It's not like she was a sports writer or something, and just incessantly talking about personal stuff on an unrelated medium. So ridiculous.

How is Iowa's movie "The Straight Story"?? I don't know any movies set in Iowa, but that movie was godawful. There's gotta be something better (/more highly ranked) out there.

What are people's current policies on kissing relatives? My family is all mouth-kissers, which really grosses me out and I've gotten good at the avoidant cheek-kiss. Come to think of it, I don't really like being touched by relatives at all, besides (brief) hugs.

+10000. Grandma can ask for a kiss, but then Grandma doesn't get to sulk when she doesn't get one.

I do not like Kaling's work/schtick AT ALL, but that said holy crap she is beautiful. I love her cover so so much.

I know a girl who pronounced melancholy "meh-LAN-chuh-lee".

Her accent was a worse atrocity than the actual game.

So it's not only teaching girls to focus on, and compete for a man, but it's teaching them that you have to do literally no work besides show up and let the world decide for you? Life goals aside, that's not a great relationship model.

I'm vicariously pumped for her, but did anyone else see a large chihuahua hugging Drew? Lady is straight-up trembling.

It didn't feel super different than looking out the plane window as a passenger (except obvs I've never been anywhere that nice!)