Can we do a Lunchtime Poll on which movie you do next? Because it should be Forrest Gump.

I kind of wish this were a series: Lindy West Ruins Movies!

OK, I sort of like Love, Actually sometimes, but I love you for this. I have NEVER understood the love for The Notebook. Or anything Nicholas Sparks writes, to tell the truth. I watch Safe Haven on my Netflix recently and kept thinking, "Wasn't this a Julia Roberts' movie in the '80s?" And then the end with the…

I'm not even halfway done but I can tell you right now I've never laughed so hard at a movie review in my life. BLESS YOU, LINDY WEST.

Nicholas Sparks is the Thomas Kinkade of the literature world.

Well, we've been training and selectively breeding dogs to be our animal helpers for thousands of years. We've been selectively breeding cows to provide food and leather. It's different.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

It reminds me of the Residential Schools for Native children in Canada- an attempt at cultural genocide- where they also did medical and nutritional experiments on children in additional to every kind of abuse imaginable. As much as I blame the Catholic church for this bullshit, it really is part of a larger pattern…

Truth. This kind of stuff, along with the Magdalene laundries, is the context behind Sinead O'Connor ripping up the picture of the pope on SNL back in the 90s. Also for the anger any Irish woman who identifies even slightly as feminist feels for the Catholic church. Except for a few older Catholics, I've never met…

Also a lot of non-Irish Catholics are trying to put all the blame on Irish Catholics when in fact there were places like this all around the world (including America, Australia etc).

Let's call it what it really was, a concentration camp for unwed mothers and their children. I do hope we've learned something from this and make sure it never, ever happens again.

HIPAA violations are MAJOR. There are medical privacy laws for REASONS. That idiot Rawls is fucked.

Bonus points for accusing the mother of creating an unstable home life when the father is R. KELLY.

There is a world of difference between people who forget their child while heading into work—and that is something that I understand and fear—and those who run into a store for five minutes. The Weingarten piece is about people whose routines are changed in just a tiny way, while the Brooks piece is about someone who…

Thank you. I don't want to live in a world where people are calling the cops on each other just in case. Use your common sense!

It makes no sense to compare what Brooks did with the people profiled in Weingarten's excellent piece. They are completely different scenarios, and it undercuts your argument to put them in the same league. Regardless, I have no problem whatsoever with what Brooks did. You don't need to "tell everyone it's totally OK…

Your headline and opener don't really match up. "We're not judging you, but for crissakes, why would you do that?!"

Wow! In Australia, we have "no hat, no play" rules. Kids without hats aren't allowed outside. Sunscreen is mandatory unless you have a doctors note. So, apparently, the administrators in California are a lot more worried about gangs, than about cancer. Good to know.

I younger woman I work with is such a sweet idiot. She has three unplanned kids because she thinks birth control is dangerous — meanwhile her sack of lard husband has two other sack of lard adult kids with another woman. She's a redhead but won't use sunscreen because it "causes cancer." Oh, and she suffered for…

I mentioned it in another comment but I still remember back in elementary school when we had a fun day at the swimming pool, and one of my friends decided not to wear sunscreen because she wanted to tan. She wound up with such bad burns all over (even on the bottoms of her feet, I remember, which horrified me) that…