Me too! I remember watching that special and thinking "poor Maya, she lost her mom so young so she doesn't get her mom to appear on the show." Then her dad came out and I cried like a baby with PMS.

Me too! Minnie Riperton's Loving You is the best.

That's the current thinking in social services related to foster care and adoption - that the "we're colorblind" attitude doesn't work, and that white families adopting children of color need to make efforts to become part of the child's racial/ethnic community. Not all prospective parents follow this, but it is the…

I am so with you on that. There doesn't seem to be much of a pro bono service aspect to dentistry, the way there is with law or medicine. I'd like to see more options for low and no cost dental care that goes beyond "let 'em rot then pull 'em."

Also, we don't wash our bras all that often.

"Disastrously unfortunate appearance." Did Ben Stein just call poor people ugly? Really Ben?

Yeah, huge HIPAA violation, which is seriously frowned upon in the medical industry. Mr. Boss should lose his job for that.

this is why it's so important for state laws to mandate 3x damages and attorneys' fees in these cases. Only by punishing the offending employer and giving a strong likelihood of recovering attorneys' fees do employees have the motive and opportunity to pursue these cases.

Maybe Bernice thought she was at church and the man-panties was (were?) the collection plate. BC she's a lifelong, tithing Baptist.

If you can find whole Jersey milk at your local fancy grocery, get that. It's usually sold in small glass bottles. It is the unicorn tears of dairy and will make your coffee so much more delicious.

The best response to one of these "but won't you think of the children" worry-fests I ever heard was a friend who deadpanned "well, if you really loved your child you'd move out do the suburbs so your kid wouldn't spend so much time in the car." Mic drop.

The UK's application system is very different to that in the US, as I understand it (is it still the case that if you don't get into your applied-for schools but meet the qualification standards, you are then assigned a university?). If we're comparing based on number of schools applied to, the US has a lot more…

I worked at a fine-dining place on a wharf in Monterey Bay, and was once asked by a table of tourists "how they train the seals to ride the waves like that." Those are surfers, folks. Like, humans who surf. See the colorful surfboards?

I'm happy for Sara and Linda but, ugh Lindy, that song is in the top 5 worst songs of all time.

My cousin and his husband did air plants - even I can't kill an air plant.

Lindy, you should have TX3 perform at your wedding. And also be your cater-waiters.

Yes, this. I had a couple of scary Greyhound experiences when I was a kid, so now when I take the train or am on a Southwest flight, I look for the solo teen girls and ask "would you like to sit with me so you don't end up next to a strange man?" It's an odd question, but they always understand what I mean.

I find it hard to believe that The Colbert Show and Colbert himself have so little power that they can't exert some influence over who controls the show's official social media accounts.

It's like when your brother asks "why do you keep hitting yourself" while walloping you with your own arm.

That sort of loophole will make many conservatives' heads explode. So there's your superpower.