Sit down, creationists. You've already managed to convince a significant portion of the population that evolution is just, you know, A THEORY, one that should hold the same weight as my mom's theory that my best friend isn't gay; he just hasn't met the right woman.

Oh good lord. I'm from East Texas (and back now visiting family), and I swear, I can feel the Stupid White Christian Male Paranoia in the air sometimes.

Ugh, I'm sick of Kennedy. I used to think he was an OK guy, but that so-called "partial-birth abortion" ruling was an enormous, steaming pile of patriarchal horseshit.

This is why the 2000 shit makes me even angrier. That election basically guaranteed that women and other non-white conservative Christian men are going…

I got a free subscription to Us Weekly, so I guess I can't complain too much, but I wish they would stop fellating the Duck Dynasty people. I suppose it sells, but "dealing with those beards," really? If I wanted to listen to people with ridiculous and outdated beliefs about gender, sexuality and religion, I'd just go…

I'm sorry for your loss. I don't know if I believe in an afterlife, but I do try to take comfort in the fact that both my relative and my lover are no longer suffering. I can believe their spirit is out there, somehow, in some form, even if it's not a sentient spirit...I"m not really making sense. But I believe in…

I'm very sorry. I think all you can do is love him and support him, although I know that's not much consolation when that look is in his eyes. Having a loved one who is suicidal is so damn terrifying, especially when they won't tell you how bad it is. I'll offer you Internet hugs, and I wish I could do more.

Thank you so much, to you and everyone else. He didn't leave a note or anything. It took weeks for me to even find out he was gone; I just thought he got tired of me. Then I talked to one of his siblings, and she was thanking me for being a positive influence on his life, and we were probably both crying as we typed…

Fuck suicide. I lost a relative to it as a child. Last year, I lost a lover to it. When I see news about a famous person ending their own life, I always think of him. Of course, I think of him a lot anyway.

Yeah, I've been watching off and on, saw the awesomely hilarious/sexy "Try Again" dance, and was thinking "JUST KISS ALREADY!" So when they did, I swooned. I admit to swooning, yes. It wasn't Nick/Jess on New Girl swooning (yes, I watch that show too and love it), but it was pretty lovely.

How would these "unannounced inspections" go? "WHORES! BRING OUT YOUR WHORES!"

"I'm not a whore!"

Oh good lord. I have a screaming sinus infection, and if I could, I would hock up mucus all over this Melvin person.

I know a few people in open relationships. Seems like something that could work great if you find the perfect balance, but oh man, if you don't...you get an Onion article.

I'm sorry. I've been vacillating between depression and anxiety this winter. At the dentist the other day, they pulled a dental dam over my face and I had to remind myself I was not going to suffocate.

So I might have a casual make-out session in the next week or so. I have never done this sort of thing, honestly. The guy and I are friends, and I made a remark about having a bad week and needing to make out with somebody or something, and he just offered to do so rather quickly. We've discussed it some more since…

Yup, this. In my calmer, less neurotic moments, I've decided I will be OK either way, whether I have kids or not. I'm almost 30 and have never really been in a relationship where I could see myself having a baby with a guy, though, except maybe in a case of if X had turned out differently, that might have been fun. If…

She makes me want to work out, almost. Well, I had been meaning to anyway. When I lived in a sunnier climate, I took more walks.

This says so damn much about their worldview that Straight White Christians are the ones being persecuted, that Straight White Christians are the ones who need protection from the Big Bad Gays.

Read it the same way. Don't watch House of Cards, though I've heard so much good things. I was just scrolling through my Twitter feed earlier today and thought "Oh, Carrie Underwood. Jesus needs to take the wheel," then didn't think about it again.

Former reporter pet peeve here: "Brutally raping." All rape is brutal by nature, and The Tennessean op-ed writer should know that. Same with murder. There are no kindly or gentle rapes, especially not of unconscious people. I guess I'm a little sensitive about this partly because of the whole "rape rape" shit that's…

Yeah, I haven't seen the interview yet (West Coast, and Bode just went down the mountain here). In fact, now that I know this, I may just mute the damn thing like I muted the pre-race piece on him and his wife, or maybe on him and his brother. I'm not sure; I muted it.