I also love the woman who crashed her car into a police cruiser where a cop was overseeing street constuction work. Smart.

I took a self-defense class a few years ago, and that was essentially the message of the instructor — never get in a car, never go to a second location, and basically make it as difficult and inconvenient for the assailant to continue as possible. His logic — which admittedly wouldn't apply to a truly deranged…

Was that also the episode where Oprah suggested that if anyone harasses you in public/attempts to interact with you so as to distract you so they can commit a crime, to start screaming in loud, violent gibberish because "people even bad ones fear crazy." This always stuck with me. As goofy as it sounds, this is some…

I'm in my 30s and I remember my mom always told us that. Maybe they'll kill you if you try to escape, but they'll definitely kill you if you go with them.

Absolutely. And her words feel very true, often it would have been better to die (be shot) then endure some of the literally torturous murder stories we hear.

I remember reading more recently that basically, if you're in a populated area, even if you are shot trying to escape, you are more likely to survive the gunshot wound than surviving whatever that person is going to do once he moves you. It's terrifying. I just hope I'm never in a situation where I have to fight for…

Yeah and I remember thinking "I don't care if I get stabbed or shot—nobody will ever take me to a second location. I would crash my car into a tree first". It's always stuck with me and I wonder at the impact of that episode. I remember a story where a girl watched an Oprah episode (that I also remember) that had a…

What he means by that is that we shouldn't care about these women. These guys never really mean "please care about these guys too, just as I care about your girls!" What they mean is "I don't give a shit about these girls, I don't really give a shit about these guys either, but I will pour all my efforts in derailing…

Dogs will love anybody at any time. You have to EARN a cat's love.

Today is a day for Team Cat.

I think the less bathing suit the better. That goes for all people.

In related news, can we talk swimsuits?

I have been wearing Magnum PI length shorts for years. Whats the point of wearing half-pants?

uh, she lunged at him with her whole body. and she was trying to kick him too. and not gently. that's physical violence. if you don't think that's physically violent, well i'm just glad i don't have you or people who think like you in my life. i've never seen my parents do anything like that to us, themselves or…

I'm sorry, but every time I hear someone talk about how Mother's day is a manufactured piece of shit Hallmark holiday and OH MY GOD THEY WILL NOT BE A PART OF THAT, MOTHERFUCKERS....

I did my good deed for the month. There is a young woman who belongs to a sub-group on Facebook for the same condition I have, Drop foot. (Look it up, it sucks) Anyway she lives in Nairobi Kenya and she has no access to the stuff we're lucky to have here. She's 19 and she can't walk any sort of distance and it was…

That was my first thought too, and I don't think that's going to be good.

A photo exists of me at a kiddie swimming pool in 1983, age 4, wearing a bikini similar to these, surrounded by other little girls wearing bikinis, boys only wearing bottoms, girls only wearing bottoms, a few full one pieces and one toddler boy running mad, wearing nothing. No one thought anything of it at the time.…

I don't care who agrees with me or doesn't. If you look at a little boy in swim trunks and see a little boy, but you look at a little girl in a 2 piece suit and see a sexualized object- THE PROBLEM IS NOT THE SWIMSUIT.

There is nothing sexual about any of those swimsuits. They are swimsuits. On little girls.