Outside of feminist circles/blogs the term 'rape culture' does not exist. I'm not saying it's wrong but it's simply not common vernacular or knowledge.

Point taken. I'm not on a high horse and I don't look down on people who are so poor and strapped of resources that crap food is their only legitimate option (due to things like food deserts). My point was that people need to re-assess the way we view food and break away from this notion that ONLY fast food is a…

Ok, and I don't think those are prime choices for kids either. You can pick up cheaper wheat bread at Wal-Mart, and off brand version of pretty good olive oil/mayo, some cheap lettuce/sprouts, mustard, decent cheese, etc. Fresh bread is sooo incredibly cheap. It doesn't have to be fancy, you just have to know where go…

I don't make bread from scratch. I just have to pick out the healthiest type of bread I can find at the store. But a multi-grain and relatively healthy loaf of bread, decent cold cuts, cheese and veggies can load up a sandwich in a very healthy way. Hell, bypass the mayo (I only use the olive oil kind now and then…

It doesn't take that long to make a sandwich or reheat some soup. I had to re-train how I think about 'meals' which was that they had to be more complicated, time consuming things. While I love and can appreciate incredible food, I'm not a big eater, nor a snacker nor someone who craves sweets. The point of my meals…

Here's a simple solution. The more processed it is, the likelihood it's pretty terrible for you. It takes me 15 minutes to cut up some fresh veggies, dice some tofu and throw in a tablespoon of coconut oil and cook them up and bam, a full meal with some leftovers.

No. Multiple witnesses said they *heard* at least five shots being fired. For him to have hit her five times that would mean the first shot nailed her and when she was on the ground he decided to fire four more shots. My guess is the first two or three missed (or she was still standing) and it was the last one or two…

Not only that but the force of being shot in the chest even when protected by kevlar seems like it would be enough to break a rib or two. Anyone who has had broken ribs know how debilitating that can feel and it would leave officers on the ground and vulnerable.

In elementary school, two other classmates and I realized that our favorite teacher resided in a nearby neighborhood. On a Saturday we rode our bikes over just to say hi and the shock on his face when we asked if we could come in and listen to his CD player (he was one of the first people I knew who had one on his…

Anyone who says he/she hates drama is almost always guaranteed to be a lightning rod for it. Even more so if it's said to you upon your first meeting and this individual is praising how 'drama free' and different you seem. Red flag! Red flag!

I don't think well of him at all. He could have definitely thrown the decency card. I just know this site and how the narrative would have gone if some woman would have written in about how some man she had agreed to meet ended up being entirely wasted before they said hello and she was extremely uncomfortable so she…

So he admitted to being a dick and she's still upset over him? Ok then.

He basically did say that with the phone call. I'm not agreeing with him or saying his behavior is ok. I'm saying they are strangers who had briefly talked prior to meeting and for whatever reason he took off.

While I can identify with this because I can get caught up in it as well... I can almost guarantee that the other people who might have been privy to that 'embarrassing thing' have either long forgotten about it or it's so far removed they don't care (unless it was truly heinous and despicable.

I think Days of Our Lives stopped being interesting back when Marlena was possessed. It was silly and over the top but I didn't watch those as a kid. Jerry Springer however...! I was reading Poe in the fifth grade and read through every supernatural book I could get my hand on from grade six to eight. Nothing like…

I think this flies in the face of the general message here which is 'you don't owe strangers any amount of your time'. It's also why you don't plan long dates with strangers. I don't do the online dating thing but if I did, it would be one or two drinks max unless I was really intrigued. Leaving immediately was rude…

Soap operas are on during the middle of the day when kids should be in school. Little kids won't pick up what's going on unless it is graphic (I watched one of the Police Academy movies when I was a child and was always confused why that one woman crawled out from under the podium but didn't pick up on it until…

Don't let things like 'facts' get in the way of your thinking..! The mandatory notice to parents was also not sent with the book this year as well and the parents could have opted out had the school done their job. They didn't so I can see the dad calling for a ban as being mandatory reading because it was a failure…

Or you know, going to medical school. What do you mean? I just woke up and was a doctor! Forget those eight years of study plus several more years getting started.

I tend to agree and I was far from being popular in high school.