Am I the only person on Earth who thinks Kristin Chenowith's voice is kind of irritating? I love theater, but I honestly don't understand how someone who seems to intentionally sing like a little girl, with that twee, infantilized style she has, has managed to become the superstar of Broadway.

We all really just need to learn to stop reading immediately after any sentence including the phrase "No offense and I'm not racist, BUT..." No good can come of that.

Jez seriously does not have a good track record on protecting victims' identities.

I don't think it's a processing method so much as it is proof that someone actually managed to conceive and bear a child in the Uncanny Valley.

And then they'll sneeze and blow the entire mouthful of disgusting mushed peas into your face.

"Sen.Whitehouse (D-Kinda Awesome)"

WHATTHEEVERLOVINGFUCKDIDIJUSTSEE

She is so fucking badass. I was ridiculously proud every time I got to vote for her when I lived in California.

Hell, I *have* kids and that picture kind of makes me want to get rid of them in case they ever turn into that baby and come kill me in my sleep.

"I haven't had kids..."

She is lovely, but that picture is giving me hives. I *hate* that bizarre tights-over-skates thing that is standard in figure skating. I presume it's meant to make one's legs look long and uniform, but it just looks so bizarre to me, like your feet are giant, lumpy hooves.

It astonishes me how many people don't use these when using table saws. I'm an RN at a hospital, and our ER sees a truly amazing number of sliced off fingers from table saw accidents. One particularly memorable person sliced his finger the long way, from the tip down to his palm, and essentially split his finger in…

That "sexual integrity" thing was so shitty that I just had to laugh. To my mind, having sexual integrity means that if I tell someone, "Hey, you're hot and I want to have sex with you," and if they're willing, I go ahead and have sex with them! Instead of, say, getting 90% naked, having my ancient, horrible Catholic…

I think personal tragedies was part of our problem, too. My class was small, only about 150 students (it was a small, private school), and there was a freakish wave of deaths among the parents of my classmates. There were a couple who had random, fatal heart attacks, a horrific car accident that killed three students…

Really? I honestly thought that being traumatized by high school (or at least by the teen years, if you don't have a high school where you live) was a pretty universal experience. Now I'm curious! Anyone else from outside the U.S. who thinks its just we Americans who are torturing each other as teenagers? Because I…

Ha, I'm glad I'm not the only one whose classmates all hated each other to such a degree that we didn't have a ten-year reunion. There were like three people (all of whom were wealthy, mean, and best friends in high school) who got on Facebook and tried to arrange some big party for our reunion, and were universally…

"it's supposed to be more than a realistic/accurate representation of her"

I really, really wanted Terry Gross to push her on the fact that abstinence has a failure rate—both due to rape and due to people "forgetting" to be abstinent just like they can forget their birth control pills or condoms—but although she made her repeat, "Yes, we really only teach abstinence" twice, she left it at…

Did anyone else hear Terry Gross interviewing Caroline Cline, who runs a crisis pregnancy center in Dallas, on Fresh Air yesterday? It was horrifying. Gross asked her, "If you convince, say, a 15-year-old to carry to term and keep the child or give it up for adoption, do you then counsel the 15-year-old about birth…

"And both males and females can bitch equally, it has nothing to do with gender."