I'm picturing your mom as a Dynasty -era Joan Collins.

I am totally okay with that, Anakin.

My sister's a nurse, about half the people we grew up with became nurses or work in the medical field, and I go to a dialysis center three times a week, so I spend a lot of time around nurses, techs, and other medical professionals. Their acceptable topics of table conversation tend to be more....eclectic than usual.…

'Salright. You're among friends here.

There was a poster with your issue in an open thread a week or two ago; absolutely zero desire. Anyway, late in the post-or maybe even in a response-she revealed that she was taking Zoloft. The response was immediate and unanimous: maybe a dozen people, myself included, wrote back that Zoloft had annihilated their sex…

For the record, I will happily watch Gossip Girl with you.

Congratulations on your week. Most of it anyway. You sound like someone who would have utterly fascinating dinner conversation.

Forty-two minutes. For politeness's sake.

Ok, that Wodehouse advice is positively brilliant.

Ditto

That which is dead cannot die, but rises again.

That....entity in the back looks cold...

Con artist. I think if she had Munchausens-by-proxy, she would have been actually hurting the kid somehow. Poison or something to make him look sickly.

Thanks again! I've never been to a Fringe fest but they sound like lots of fun. I hear Edmonton's is supposed to be pretty fantastic. I've wanted to go there since reading this book, so hey, win-win. I'll have to put it on my bucket list along with walrus-sitting and taking wooden boat building classes at Seattle…

As hateful as the stuff they actually say is, I think the little meta-messages like that are ultimately more damaging. Straight up propaganda technique.

Yeah, I'm sure you'll live longer the less you tune into that snakepit. But whenever i'm channel surfing and i blip by one of their marionettes spewing whatever garbage they're pushing this week, i get stuck like a mammoth at La Brea. It's like their idiocy puts outl gravity

I could have told them this. I get way more attention from women-and gay men, for that matter-when I look like I've spent the weekend in a holding cell than when i'm polished to a shiny lustre.

Not anymore.

THANKS OBAMA! No, sincerely, thanks, PRESIDENT* Obama. I may have found some of the things you've done or said (or really, not done or not said) problematic, or maybe a bit disenheartening, but this?

Logical Fallacy: they don't kill people. They-more rarely than I'm sure you'll believe-perform abortions, or terminations if the a-word is too loaded for you, and provide birth control options for people who, in a shameful number of cases for a supposedly first world country, literally have no where else to turn.