I was misdiagnosed as Multiple Sclerosis before I was diagnosed. I have neuro issues from the damage done (it strips the end of your nerves in extremities in the reaction I have, rare within the disease). I lose grip, slur words, forget what I am doing, get extremely fatigued, and can actually have seizures.
They…

Laura, I actually feel really singled out and hurt and marginalized by Jezebel lately. There is so much anger at Gluten-Free People here. Why? What did we do to deserve this? Are we slave drivers? Did I miss some meeting where we decided to kill all the kittens? What the hell have Celiac sufferers do to make…

I was operating under the assumption that we were going to continue to see her as a whole person, instead of reducing her humanity to one action in her lifetime. Silly me.

I guess she was intelligent, but then she sexted Weiner, which makes her a dumb girl with no life ambitions. That seems legit....
...imately…

I was hoping it was a woman, but alas, phone call confirms it is a man. "You'll out me." Ugh, you are using the phrase wrong, Rando!

More accurately: She should have expected it because people are shitty. Not that she should have to expect it, because it should not happen. It does, because so many shitty people cannot get their shit straight.
Even wrong number guys like to creep. So do "we messaged once to confirm that I want the desk you sold via…

By all accounts, she is intelligent. She just also happens to be a shitty person in conjunction with that intelligence, which is almost worse than being a socially-terrible idiot.

Good thing she went for law instead of sciences. I am Christian, and I don't go for "creationism is science and dinosaurs were devil work". Then again, I also do not walk into a church often, because my family is comprised of people who are in more of a 'at-one-with-the-world' state when hiking through the woods, or…

It is a simple dress, and it looks great on her. So does the natural makeup. Maybe we can move back towards understated fashion choices, away from neon and bedazzled, low-cut, high-hem, burnout or lace on transparent netting, tummy-baring everything, and wear things that look good on us without looking like we are…

Oh, there will be a definite spike, and probably a lot more violence. It's a long road, but I am fairly confident that it is headed away from Social Insanity mountain.

I hate that it is always considered feminine to be a crier, because I do not cry and I don't like to comfort crying people or sad people or shy people. Ergo, I get called a heartless bitch. A lot. Suddenly, it is my job to be sympathetic and to also be a crier because I have a vagina. Some of us are just not outwardly…

I have really very little sympathy for anyone crying at work. Then again, I don't like anyone crying when they are not at work, in most cases. Fix it or accept it. Crying is weird for adults, when it is not directed at a breakup, a death, or something equally terrible. It's just awkward for everyone else, when you are…

My husband used to have to stay late to cover workload left by the office martyrmom, right after I had a really difficult delivery and was suffering postpartum depression. He got zero days off to be home with me. The issue was that he was a man, and I was home with the baby, so his place was in the office in their…

Because having resentful parents who never wanted the child they got stuck with always leads to good things.
I feel like this is a very important conversation to have right now, though, because it has some quotes that tell the story of the mindset that leads to abortion and contraceptive restrictions, wage gap, skewed…

Removing rights is worlds harder than granting them. It could possibly be undone, but not easily.

So eliminating 20% of the potential market because they are not in urban areas, after previously serving that market. That sounds like a solid business plan.
I am sure Sony would not at all capitalize on that move should Microsoft make it in the future, not only with the customers, but also with developers who want to…

New Orleans is far from rural, yet only has two providers: AT&T and Cox. They've been accused of collusion, and are at the very least in competition to see who can charge the most for the worst service and still have customers. No HDD would be a nightmare.

The face I am making. Do yourself a gigantic favor: Use 2 tablespoons more grinds for each pot, and turn the warmer off after thirty minutes. Rewarming cold coffee is at least better than leaving it to scald, then rewarming that.
If you like strong and slightly bitter, I can also suggest trying coffee with chicory.…

Some things are more bitter than old coffee.

And you hate full-bodied coffee. An office I worked at got the pods after too many people couldn't agree on how strong to make the coffee. The pods make glorified flavored water. I brought the old drip machine to my office AND used better beans, and still let the two or three other string-brew lovers have as much as…

For those of us beginning the long, very expensive process of adoption within Texas, this is heartbreaking. From my perspective, they are forcing more infants into an overburdened system that already caters to those under the age of two, leaving older children without as many potential homes.
It takes forever, it is…