This is exactly how I feel. If you want to take a lavish vacation on which you happen to get married, okay fine. But that's not the same as throwing yourself a wedding and inviting no one.

My cousin recently eloped. A couple of her sisters knew about it (someone had to babysit her son and stepson). She flew to Vegas with her man, and about 3 hours before the ceremony, my dad got a call from my aunt to let him know that the wedding would be streamed live. I got a text from the bride's sister an hour or…

Some of them keep using in the hopes of miscarriage. A friend of mine worked at a clinic while a medical student where they treated impoverished pregnant women and their children. He said that the addicts would just keep using, in part because they were so addicted but also in part because they couldn't afford to…

If you are an unfit parent and you have your children taken away from you, and then you manage to produce two more children, the little ones are not taken away from you unless you do something so egregious that you have to go back to court. (However, in those cases, the older siblings tend to be willing to testify…

I find Glee is more enjoyable when I mostly ignore what goes on between the singing.

I've seen these before. Female urinals are generally placed into stalls so that women can pull down their pants to their ankles without exposing themselves to a line full of people. Of course, when you've gone that far, you might as well just put in a regular toilet.

That reminds me of one time when I dropped my car off for some minor maintenance and needed to wait for it. I asked if there was wifi, so that I could get a bit of work done, and the mechanic said no. I replied, "I guess I'll just play Angry Birds like a modern adult, then," and he laughed because it's true.

Women actually do this?

We still tease one of the daughters of a family friend about the time she gave the whole congregation a free show at the children's Christmas mass. They'd invited all of the children onto the altar to hear the story of Jesus' nativity. And this kid was about 3 and had on a petticoat and ruffled drawers. She showed 'em…

They're not. Thus, they are not eligible for marriage, gay or not.

My lhasa apso wanted to know where the puppies were also. He was all, "Me, I am the dog. Where are those interlopers?! I am the dog!"

You're not hungry! You're just bored. A slice of cake like that is approximately 14 points. You can fit cake into that points budget, but do you want to? If yes, fit it in. If not, go eat something sweet with a quarter of the points, like yogurt or a granola bar (make sure these are high fructose corn syrup free).

I have to concur. Cutting out as much HFCS as possible from my diet really helped me lose weight and feel better about life. I was shocked to find it in really insidious places.

Well, as a fat women, I found the topic about petite women interesting and sympathetic.

On some level, I think that it's easier to ignore small women because while shopping for them is nightmarish (and I used to shop for a tiny size 0 girl friend) there's a different sort of prejudice that goes along with petiteness rather than fatness or blackness or foreignness. A different flavor of condescension, if…

Can we get a link?

It's important to keep your vaccinations current on your dog, especially if he or she goes to the groomer or dog park. Untreated parvovirus kills 90% of the dogs it infects, and it is especially deadly to puppies. While your adult animal might survive with aggressive (and expensive) treatment by your veterinarian,…

When men like that retire, it kills them. Working is what was keeping him alive, keeping him fighting. As soon as he retired, he let himself succumb.

I hope your cat had a happier ending than you envision. My friends have back porch kitties (anyone in the New Orleans area want a little orange boy cat or two?) who they feed regularly. They treated them for fleas and they got the momma and two little boy kittens fixed so as to avoid more porch kitties. No one can…

That is just hilarious.