I don’t have pets, but I was present when a relative’s terminally ill dog was euthanized by a vet. It was sad, but it was also very fast, and the animal showed no distress. It’s normally done with a barbiturate drug, which actually makes being “put to sleep” a fairly accurate description. The vet was also very…

Exactly. No one is saying that you can’t shoot a deer in season because you want to eat venison. No one is saying that you can’t kill a rattlesnake that gets into your yard where your kids play. No one is saying that a sick or dangerous animal can’t be euthanized.

Whoa, love it! When I was 13, I got bullied on the school bus — y’know, the standard hair-pulling, back-kicking, chasing, cigarette throwing shit. We had a crowd of mean girls in the neighborhood who were so relentless that they even bullied boys, so nerdy kids like me got subjected to that idiocy regularly. My…

Best one I ever heard was during my undergrad years in the mid-1970s. Two of my friends (both male) were having one of those silly dorm arguments that isn’t anything serious or hateful, and in fact isn’t even about any memorable subject; each participant just refuses to let it go until he feels that the other has…

Aren't cashews great? I make a similar sauce from time to time, which is a great option because of a dairy allergy in the household. Cashew sauces also thicken with cooking, which can be desirable.

I’m with you. I dislike going out for breakfast, so staying in hotels that provide breakfast is a major factor in my choices of place to stay. We do this in the U.S., and we do a lot of this when traveling outside the country.

Excellent idea. If I ever see a chain restaurant manager abuse a server , either by omission or commission, out comes the cell phone for a recording and a call to the corporate office. And it won't be the server I'm complaining about.

I still don’t get how flip-flops or the like can offer greater than 0% protection against that kind of infection. Water flows freely in, out, over, and through them. The best protection is to dry your feet thoroughly afterwards.

I was really sorry to hear this. Whenever I waffle about whether to work out, I’ll remind myself that this young woman played in a college basketball game while living with a lethal illness, and didn’t give up or even complain about it.

Anyone else love O'Fallon Wheach as much as I do? I don't know if it's available outside Missouri, but if you like fruited beers that don't taste like candy, it's worth a try.

Actually, the primary reason that I never started using it is that we had some suspicions (incorrect, as it turns out) that Mr. Sububi was allergic to sesame. But as it happens, I’ve never been able to detect any sesame flavor in any hummus I’ve ever eaten, and that includes experiences in family-owned Middle Eastern…

"It creates a face for you to put your other face over ...."

I make mine from canned garbanzos as well. Lemon, garlic, dill, salt, pepper, olive oil, and chickpeas. I don’t bother with tahini because I honestly can’t taste the difference.

In 1981, I still had the kind of body that could get away with a t-shirt or polo tucked into shorts, jeans, or a skirt. Although, in fairness, I was drawn more to turquoise-, vermilion-, and canary-striped skinny-ankle pants at the time.

Just reading the excerpts from this asshole’s Twitter feed makes me need another shower.

He needed something to wash down the Twinkies.

Wow, I didn’t know that petulant nine-year-olds could get faculty jobs.

I grew up in the Northeast, where it was rarely warm enough on Easter Sunday to play outside. I was also an only child, so my mother would hide eggs for me all over the house and then I’d get to find them all. Muhahahahahaha.

My father was buried on my 40th birthday; in retrospect, I’m very, very glad that Facebook wasn’t yet in existence.