You didn't think it was self-evident that I knew I didn't have to do paperwork to get pregnant? Really?

I'm trying really hard here to assume that you weren't intending to be condescending and sarcastic like it feels like you are being by telling me things that are very self-evident and using words like "precious" which is rarely used on this site without sarcasm being involved.

If the biological parent tries to make contact, and you don't feel that you as a parent are ready or your child isn't old enough to comprehend what's happening, or you simply don't feel it's the right time, it's 100% in your control on letting the biological parents in. If they're persistent, it may be a problem. They…

Ah yes. Several thousand miles will keep your child from expressing an interest in his or her birth mother. For sure. *eyeroll*

"Access to wealthy men" is a gross thing to bring up, especially since fraternization is verboten. I have a job I love, have fun at, and my customer base is surgeons. Even if I was fishing for one, you better goddam believe they need to pay me despite enjoying my job and the adjacency to "wealthy men".

Trust me, hourly (non-exempt employees) are required to be paid every two weeks, or within 3 days of being terminated, and they get mandatory time and a half for all hours worked in a day over 8, and mandatory double time for all hours worked over 11. I'm a payroll consultant, and when we do implementation for…

My dog has pancreatic cancer. I wish she had no cancer.

Firth thought when I read the headline.....

Yeah I never get sick of waking up and seeing the Cascades from my bedroom window. Plus in the immortal words of Geologic and Sabzi, out of towners don't be knowing about the best-kept/ain't nothin' better than the summer in the Northwest

Thank you so much for posting that tee. Just forwarded to my entire rabid sporting family (I was the academic in a football family).

Gallbladder surgery is laproscopic. A scope through your lap (abdomen). Endoscopy is a scope down your esophagus. Like colonoscopy is a scope in your colon. The endoscopy procedure they are referencing is basically they would stick a tube down your throat and fish the balloon back out.

You kids and your Tinders and your Tweets.

I knew it! It was actually one set of twins and an elaborate set of funhouse mirrors!

I had mixed feelings on this piece, mostly because I am one of those women who has had to change her entire perspective on life just to survive on the Internet. I've come up with the million little threads in one giant encompassing web that allow me to process and cope with the harassment I face every day. I work as a…

No. Jason Biggs loves Jason Biggs. So that makes him one of the only people in the universe who can stand Jason Biggs.

Damn, is he going for The Golden Fedora Lifetime Achievement Award?

Oh god, she had dozens. Just as well I moved on to some more modern erotica before I lost my virginity, or the poor boy would have been seriously weirded out!

Almost a quarter of troubled seventh-graders send sexually suggestive texts or photos, with those sending explicit pictures especially likely to engage in sexual behavior