My mother still talks about the time my brother, who was two at the time, crawled under his bed and dragged his blanket (which was the same color as the carpet) behind him so he completely disappeared. They only found him when my father lifted the mattress in a panic.

I do the version of "live really far from the grocery store diet" where the grocery store is two blocks away but I'm just too lazy to go. The problem is that it's actually insanely easy to subsist on a diet of junk food when you don't go to the store very often because junk food is, like, all preservatives. You load…

Where is the "nearly half of the footage from the fifth season of the show" was of the Salahis coming from? Michaele was kicked out really quick - on her first day, I believe.

Well, if I were a gun shop owner and suspected that a customer might be deterred from buying a gun by false statistics about how women are more likely to kill their husbands (i.e., he wasn't absolutely certain that his wife would not kill *him*), then I might be reluctant to make that sale too. I wouldn't ever want to…

This is one of my major problems with these regulations - they don't make us safer, and they go a long ways to distracting the people who are supposed to be making us safer. Every now and then they do tests - have someone go through security with inappropriate items in their bags. The agents always always ALWAYS get…

After I mentioned how creepy I thought this was on Facebook (I hadn't heard of it until they were discussing it on the radio last week) a friend directed me to Youtube and I found a HILARIOUS video of two girls having this amazing crying fit because "We don't want to be naughty!" They were absolutely terrified because…

I'm confused. Holly Golightly was a prostitute. "Men pay me $10 to go to the bathroom" was 1961 speak for "men pay me $10 to have sex with them." Also, not adorable and charming. Deeply, deeply disturbed. A child bride (we have a hint of even worse abuse earlier in her life but no confirmation) who lacked any real…

I don't disagree with your overall point, but the impression I got was that she would, in fact, be buying herself these expensive meals and drinks without the dates, she'd just be going into debt over it. Which, as far as I'm concerned, makes her considerably less savvy, but perhaps I'm judgmental because I'm hungry.

It wasn't just about Photoshop Touch, but there was this: [gizmodo.com]

I'd agree except I just made reservations for my boss at a W and holy shit, for that price they'd better give me a damn encyclopedia set every night.

I find that when I'm in a relationship, I sleep better - but it has nothing to do with who's in the bed. It's because I can talk about my day before bed, and that quiets my mind and puts me at ease. When I'm single, everything that happened that day just keeps running through my head and it's much harder to fall…

But we don't know the question. If I say "what is the question" and she says "42," I'm still not buying one because that's the answer, not the question.

To be fair, 42 is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything. If she knows what the question is, I might be persuaded to buy one.

It's slightly better if, like me, you first think of the Nickelodeon cartoon "Doug." Then it's just mildly confusing, but at least age-appropriate.

It took me a long time to figure out that the problem was she didn't want to pee while her husband was in the bathroom showering. This is not a problem that I intend to have.

I hate when I get mad enough to throw something at the garbage can and it misses and creates a big mess because at that point IT'S JUST HECKLING ME and somehow I FAILED AT RAGE. Then I turn into a blubbering mess on the floor.

It bwings us togevvah today.

No, mental retardation is a defined point on the IQ spectrum. (I should note that I'm also not a doctor - I just have parents who work with children and adults with all sorts of disabilities and disorders.)

Brain damage can cause mental retardation, depending on where in the brain and how bad it is. And lots of things can cause brain damage, including lack of oxygen (if the child stopped breathing and was then resuscitated), a really high fever, and some kinds of seizures. Which doesn't mean that any of that was what…

I'm pretty sure if I died unexpectedly, the police would be harassing my friends and family to tell them who I was dating, because I was clearly getting beat up on a regular basis. But really, I have bruises because I just walk into things a lot.