Because... people who don't like oatmeal raisin cookies (other than being insane) don't like them because of the raisins but Craisins are not raisins and are more like candy!

I support your underwear choices, Erin. Mostly because it matches up with my ideology precisely. Underwear (or smallclothes for the GoT inclined folks here) always.

Hey Dude and Salute Your Shorts are national treasures!

So it's offensive is a president doesn't show up, and offensive if he does...

Anytime someone kills a child it's "mental illness" too apparently.

It's the same thing with alcohol and drugs. If a woman does them and is raped, it's her fault for being intoxicated. If a man does them and rapes someone, it's not his fault because he was intoxicated.

Can we please shake this idea that's suddenly floating around that mental illness automatically means you're not responsible for your actions? There's a very small set of non-lucid mentally ill people who are truly not responsible for making the choice of whether or not to be violent. If you're capable of making the…

On the one hand, I think mental health needs to be considered much more prominently in the criminal justice system, but on the other, you're right. People tend only to associate 'mental illness' with violent behavior.

Well, she could have given nothing. Talk about looking a gift horse in the mouth, she gives a ton of money to help sick kids and it's just not enough for you? How about we ask those kids if they're happy with her gift, I'll bet every one of them is grateful for it. I'm not a Swift fan, but come on - just because she…

Oh, fuck off. An 18-year old and an elementary:preschool -school-aged child are not the same, and you know it.

A 2 minute errand all too often turns into a 20 minute errand — and that's plenty long enough for a kid too little to reliably let himself out of the car to get heatstroke or hypothermia. It's a bad idea to leave a little kid in a car for "five minutes". Period.

"I don't want to go in," my son said as I opened the door.

I'm struck by the people who are shocked! shocked! that this mother was arrested for violating the law while at the same time blaming the person who called it in. The mother was in a hurry so leaving the kid in the car was no big deal. The person who called it in didn't know how long the mother would be. Maybe they…

I judge her and every other parent who claims they just "can't" say no to their obnoxious toddler. I bet you are the same shitty parents who smile nervously and look away while your little darling pummelkicks the front seat on an airplane.

What pisses me off is the person who reported her.

Well, I don't mind wealthy people giving money to worthy causes, via the Baldwin thing. Saving a library is cool. I'm not even fond of Swift, but the money she gave will surely be appreciated.

I think that's totally fine, and rereading a good book can actually lead to new discoveries in a complex text, which is really fulfilling! But personally, I think I'd regret dying having read Divergent and not War and Peace. The latter would offer me a more fulfilling read, but the former is easier and so it would be…

What I would give to be able to have The Westing Game wiped from my memory and get the chance to read it for the first time again.

The best were the Babysitters Club Super Specials, especially the first one about a cruise, it was so descriptive it made me want to go on a boat trip so bad as a kid! I collected them all again in my 20's and my friend made so much fun of me, now in my 30's if I had the space I'd buy them all again.

So many contemporary novels for adults don't have any more depth and insight than young adult literature. They have more swear words and explicit sex but they're bogged down by pretension and self-importance. (Yeah, I'm talking about you, Freedom by Jonathan Franzen, you piece of shit.)