You sound like a real treasure. No snark. I hope you can help further progressivism and equality in your country from within or, if it's what you want, get a visa and help your country from the outside. I worked in immigration for 8 years and I came across a hefty number of Indians who sought to affect change in the…

Somehow I almost expected worse. Am I a sick weirdo? Yup. Do I anticipate and revel in Mark's weird posts? yup.

I think you're my favorite current Jez writer, Mark, just for your dedication to showing us all the darkest corners of the human body and (legal) interactions between consenting adults. Being moderately grossed out is just about my favorite thing ever, so rage on!

can i get his number?

Just in case all the Portuguese waiters come to the U.S. and try to start another nationalistic eat 'em all 'beef' (pun intended?) wherein they eat all of our carbs and dumpster potatoes are needed to sustain life and pre-athletic-contest gatherings?

but what about the knives?

Hey, man. Screws fall out all the time … the world's an imperfect place.

I'm sort of thinking of trying to cultivate my own now. A girl's gotta have goals.

It's there under other accounts. Just search for "25 year old blackhead" and it comes right up.

I should also point out something I meant to mention, but neglected to do so, in my first responses to you and others. My brother was elected 'president' of his recovery house within less than two months of being out/moving in. He's now at risk of going back to prison because of lapsed child support payments (a…

you can go look at my other responses for a fuller expression of my point. i don't disagree with you in theory - maybe a more segmented, offense-based system in prisons would do something for some people. except that putting people in community service or in jails/prisons with similar histories is only going to fuel…

Thanks for calling back to my post. Just reiterating (and maybe this would be better replaying to someone else, who knows how people deal with Kinja) - I'd love to see something that isn't prison that works, but I don't know what that would be. We could start with something less rigid and then, I'm certain, it would…

This is gonna be long, so leaves me gray if you'd like … and I almost don't want to bring this up because I know it's anecdotal, but my brother did a total of about 18 months for nonviolent offenses that were related to drugs. When he got out the first time he relapsed quickly and was picked back up for a theft charge…

That's why "get out the vote" initiatives are so important. Going on just conjecture, a large part of it is just that the people that 'need' to vote to get the idiots out of power just don't. This election was not about influencing anyone, but about getting people to vote for the person/party with whom they were…

If you're referencing Wendy specifically … we pretty much knew she didn't have a chance. By the end the hopes of the Dems shrunk to just losing by single digits, which would have itself been a watershed moment in TX politics and hopefully a boon for future races. Alas, that didn't pan out, but I am hopeful that her…

We need more Bort license plates in the Gift Shop. Repeat, we are sold out of Bort license plates.

Has anyone else said, "That light bulb's not the only thing he can twist in and turn on? AMIRITE?!"? Because I'm here to say that.

or he likes the fresh smell of Febreeze and this is viral advertising?

Not ashamed to say this at all ... the minute this collaboration was introduced and they announced they were touring it as "The Nick and Knight Tour" .... I bought four tickets immediately. It's hitting my city the week of my 30th birthday and I see no better way to ring in the new decade. I was/still surprisingly am…

These results seem to affirm the preference I and at least one of my moderately tall friends have for men our height/slightly shorter. But I have to wonder, partly as devil's advocate and partly because I'm generally curious, what if this study was being reported about heavier women? This seems to begin to suggest the…