RELEASE ... THE KITTIES!!!!!

Wait. Whose Mavericks home screen ever looked like that?

I loathed milk before I was sentient. My mother hates it just as much, so she never forced me to drink it, but I remember being forced to finish my milk in elementary school recess. Hate the taste, hate the aftertaste, hate the texture. The only exception: I could choke down skim milk, because it didn't taste like…

Boston roaches were never discriminating about where they turned up. The spousal unit and I once got comped drinks and desserts after one visited our table in an upscale eatery there. Although we weren't any happier than the waiter to see a roach there, I wouldn't say we were grossed out; we were seriously…

Because if getting your Big Mac one minute sooner isn't worth fighting for, then what is? /snark

I don't particularly care what anyone calls it, but back in the day when Uno's was an actual pizzeria instead of a mediocre chain joint with tedious food, their Chicago-style pizza was awesome. A friend of mine in Boston used to fly back with a few pies every time he visited family in Chicago. When the first Uno's…

This is a guilty secret coming out, because I like to stay at least somewhat up on the news. But I have had no interest in reading anything about Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, or Chelsea Manning. So I've never read any of the news stories about them. For all I know, they're in trouble for leaking Batman's true…

I sincerely hope that he is completely forgotten as soon as possible.

Is it possible that she has long-term brain damage from all of the drinking and drugging? She doesn't seem capable of taking care of herself.

Her stories about her own family were hilarious — "Life Among the Savages" and "Raising Demons". Both books may be out of print now, unfortunately.

I wonder if that "Don't be as smart as him" advice was one of those things that people believed would come true if they repeated it loudly and frequently enough. There may have been fewer women with advanced degrees or professional careers at the time, but I've certainly met a lot of married professional couples who…

Oh, I don't have much in the way of sympathy for her ; I think she deliberately worked hard to reach that level of denial. I just think that her denial is the exact reason why she can't possibly have anything interesting to say about the case. She refuses to believe he's guilty, but she certainly has no evidence that…

I honestly wish the press would get out of her face. Yes, she's in denial about the horrific things her husband did — probably even to their own kids. That's why she should have absolutely nothing of interest to say to the public. It was the same way with Diane Schuler's husband after she got drunk, drove the wrong…

Seriously! That's the first thing I thought of as well.

I don't see her comparing herself to women who already have cancer. She was born with a genetic mutation that vastly increases the risk of breast and ovarian cancers, and her mother and aunt both died young because of it. If your relative has had one of those cancers, that doesn't mean that a BRCA mutation is…

There are all sorts of environmental pollutants that can screw with our endocrine systems. Some are so chemically similar to normal human hormones that they can interfere with everything from fertility to weight maintenance. And given what we're finding out about the importance of gut bacteria, killing off the normal…

Maybe it's my 40+ years of atheism talking, but I don't understand how any women can tolerate organized religion at all. Then again, I don't understand how men can tolerate it either.

Am I the last person standing who adores DST? It does make for a tough week every spring, but ... LIGHT! Light corresponding to actual times when people are awake and active! (And if you work nights or other odd hours, neither Standard nor Daylight times will match your schedule anyway.)

Mine was around $300 (1988 dollars) and I lived about a block from the bridal shop where I bought it. There was no way I was going to have an excessively formal wedding anyway; if the dress shown in the photo had been available, I'd have snapped it up.

Wow. Nothing — and I mean NOTHING — dehydrates me more intensely than beer. Not even beverages with a higher alcohol content. I enjoy the occasional beer, but it doesn't take much to relegate me to an entire night of extreme thirst.