Yeah, they find alligators in unconnected bodies of water all the time. They had a crocodile in the reservoir at the University of Miami, and by the time they got it out it was several feet long.

A lot of Florida waters have alligators—they take people’s dogs and cats if they get too close to the water. Truly, Florida might be the Hellmouth.

I also love classical music, which is one reason I don't use steaming services—their classical rep is terrible, terribly organized, and the sound quality is wretched. Besides, I can get amazing CDs at Half Price Books for ridiculously cheap, or check real CDs out from the library for free.

Yeah, so it’s Kristen Stewart’s job to make sure Woody Allen is properly punished for abusing his step-daughter. Not the courts, not the police, not the studio heads and producers who actually have power in Hollywood. It’s the young, vulnerable actress who’s already been brutalized in the press for having an affair…

Can we not blame Kristen Stewart for the fact that Woody Allen molested children long before she was old enough to stop peeing her pants? BTW, I notice there’s no hate for anyone who worked on the X-Men movies, even though Brian Singer is a known pedophile who is actually member of a fucking pedophile ring.

Yeah, rape culture like blaming a young Hollywood actress for working with a director with bad reputation. She hasn't been accused of molesting kids—why is she somehow responsible for his shitty behavior?

Freaking love Hillary. She's smart and tough enough to put that whiny orange-faced ego ballon in his place. I can't wait to see her debate him.

I did the dealer financing, but I was careful to read all the fine print while the dealer talked to my husband. They did try to screw with us—the dealer had told us he’d give us a 3% interest rate, but when I looked over the contract, he’d written in 5% instead. Once he was done talking, I politely pointed out his…

You’d be surprised how often “call her parents” works. Maybe not in every situation or with every kid, but yeah, those things work. As does separating the two girls, sending them to the office, and yes, even talking to them about why they're having a problem. They're kids, not monsters.

You should explain keels to your friend. In depth. With pictures :)

This is the thing that infuriates me. I have another friend whose baby ended up brain damaged by one of these crazed, anti-C section loons. They should require midwives to have medical training and certification. BTW, I fully intended to have a vaginal birth. I had a healthy pregnancy, everything looked great on the…

I’m a former middle school teacher. I saw one of my students crying in the hall and wearing a cast. When I asked what was wrong, she said someone pushed her down the stairs and broke her arm, but the administration wasn’t going to do anything to the perpetrator. I was horrified, but not surprised.

The thing is, this kind of stuff happened to me and many other girls I knew in grad school, and we were NOT even in STEM fields. I think the problem is Academia. It gives so much power to advisors and professors with no oversight or protections for students.

Have you ever been to Houston? It’s so polluted that living there is like smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. And it has the nastiest, most humid weather of any place I’ve ever been. It’s a thousand times worse than Dallas.

I’m always amazed at how many parents won’t let their children walk to school by themselves. I went to school in Alaska, and I walked to school by the age of six. Through the woods. With bears. My parents literally told me what to do if I saw a grizzly bear in the woods on my way to school. And I wasn’t alone—everyone…

Posts like this are like investment advice for homeless people—when you’re homeless, you have bigger problems to worry about than whether your 401k is actualized enough. When I was dead broke, and didn’t make enough money to money to pay all my bills, plenty of people gave me smug advice on cutting my spending. I’d…

Now that story would have made a great children's book!

Then get angry at the hypocritical idiots who claim to have allergies they don’t. One of the stupidest claims I heard recently was a guy who said he couldn’t eat gluten. When someone pointed out that he was drinking a beer, which was made of barley and therefore chock full of good old gluten, he said “he couldn’t eat…

I live in Denton County (though not the city of Denton), and this isn’t just a horrible tragedy. This is the reality of living with a bunch of gun nuts. I once had some gut-toting loon chase me and my husband through a Walmart. When security kicked him out, he waited in the parking lot until we came out, then tried to…

Albert Einstein said, “if you want children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales.” He also was an accomplished violinist, like plenty of early NASA scientists. It's weird that some people don't get that we'll rounded education only helps creativity.