Little kids have hilarious fears. I apparently should not have watched the movie E.T. because I developed a terrible fear of astronauts from that movie (because for some reason the government agents wore space suits when they came to retrieve the alien). I also would hear my parents putting away dishes in the…

Nah. She wanted one experience and got a different one. It's totally okay to have a little pang about that and to sympathize.

Yeah, no. If you're having sex with human beings, you're at risk. The Bible is pretty clear on the fact that we all sin and are all vulnerable to temptation. Sex with your once-adulterous-now-repenting spouse is Biblical sex. Sex with a spouse who had sex before marriage and then changed his/her ways is Biblical…

no. If one of those virgins was molested—-even if there was no penetration—-then he or she could well have HPV or herpes and transmit it.

I should clarify that I don't mean legal, actual harassment like constant phone calls or anything like that. I think it's mostly just constantly checking a blogger's social media accounts (and those of her children, and her employer/clients, and her kid's school, and her siblings, and her spouse and ex-spouse and…

Ah! I have been known to find myself reading a site that does this to bloggers. It's bananas. There are like three or four that they are just awful about and I can't understand why. Now I'm dying to know if your friend is one of these women. But feeling guilty about it because we're talking about her again and…

Eeesh. Smack 'em both and send the kid to me. I've got an eight year old who desperately wants to be a big sister.

That's really sad when you think about it. He was severely traumatized when he was middle school age (his father died in his arms while he tried to perform CPR and before that he was abused by an addict mother) and his brain seems to have gotten stuck at that age in just about every way. I'm not saying that excuses…

after a divorce, you get to experience a second adolescence, so your aggravating factor is dismissed.

maybe. But if the choices are between "some educated people feel condescended to" and "some less-educated (read: less-privileged) people may not understand or may be intimidated and tune out" it makes sense to go ahead and let some privileged people feel condescended to. Err on the side of caution that way.

do they actually put "Mother Unknown" on birth certificates? I've seen a blank space under "Father's Name" but not "Unknown".

that would be amazing. I wish these weren't real people so I could just squeal about what an exciting plot twist that would be without feeling guilty.

Uh, the scenario you describe shouldn't involve punishment at all, corporal or otherwise.

meh. Some kids aren't boundary-testers.

in a live-in-person conversation, sure, that's no big deal. It's the people who comment on articles about Kim K or the Duck Dynasty jerkoffs or whatever saying "Who? Clearly I am too good to sully my brain with this knowledge, and I wanted you all to know that about me, even though this thread is about A Celebrity…

actually truckers usually aren't injured at all in collisions with cars (car drivers are also at fault for most 18-wheel/4-wheel collisions). Truck driving over the last 20 years has gotten much safer. Now it's not so much dangerous as unhealthy—-the sedentary nature of the job and the unhealthy truck stop food…

you sound like a fun person to hang out with

So exactly how horrible is it that my first thought was "Oh, the pet pig from Gravity Falls"

yeah, shots just burn. I was too old for Gardasil when it first came out, but my son just got an HPV shot (not sure if it was Gardasil or another brand) right along with his TDaP booster. They asked him which hand he wrote with so that they could give him the TDaP booster in the opposite arm, since it's more likely…

If not the vaccine itself, perhaps improper administration could cause nerve damage or something? If there was a problem training the staff who administered these vaccines, that would make sense.