So true. I’ll let my kids watch any Disney princess movie with a garbage message, but Disney Channel is absolutely banned. Disney Junior is OK. But it’s only for little kids.

Wait. I interview for my alma mater, and I’ve never met a parent in the dozens of interviews I’ve done. Do parents show up at yours?!?

Honestly, I was born and raised in South Florida, and my family dog once suffered the same fate as that 2 year old (he got away from my mom, ran for a quick wade in the pond and was taken) and I was STILL surprised to find that there were alligators near that beach in the Seven Seas Lagoon. They had it set up as a…

The weird thing about Disney is that there is no indication the people paying $2000 a night are moneyed people. I think they are mostly regular people who scrimp and save all year to stay in those overpriced bungalows. (You can also get Disney Vacation Club, and I don’t 100% know how that works, but I believe the…

Gators are like NYC subway rats at this point in FL. They get killed all the time. They used to relocate them when they got too big too near development, but they’re numbers are so high, they kill them and harvest their skin and meat.

Thank you! This is what I was thinking as I read it.

No, I’ve seen them get angry and huffy about it when they don’t even ask to see the sticker. Something about the carseat really pisses them off. I wish I knew what. But my 18 month old is a holy terror. If he weren’t in a carseat, he would be escaping down the aisles and beating people. (Yes, we are working on it!)…

The flight attendants are so mean when you bring a carseat on board! It’s insane. I don’t understand it.

That is my opinion as well. I think Avery killed her (outside the trailer or garage), and Brendan had absolutely nothing to do with it. Maybe someone else on the Avery property did it... but I think it was Steven. One of Brendan’s stories mentioned Steven being upset about a phone call from Jodi earlier that day. I…

The Serial sub got more interesting to me over the past year as it descended into insanity. It really had nothing to do with Serial anymore. It was like its own bizarre, hateful subculture. I still peek in now and again.

Has he gained a ton of weight?

Right? I distinctly remember thinking, “Gawker, why are you so obsessed with Conde Nast’s office space?”

I don’t have one right now because mine expired right before my daughter was born 4 years ago and I haven’t had occasion to leave the country since. (I had another baby a year ago.) It is very depressing not to have one, and I feel like a bumpkin. The kids and I will be applying soon.

For what it’s worth (and it doesn’t sound like you’re still at that job, so it’s probably not worth much to you), but PHI should be kept locked/ inaccessible at all times in its life cycle, including during disposal, regardless of who’s shredding it. It shouldn’t be thrown into open shred bins but instead locked away…

While I was pregnant, the OB’s office mailed me a form with someone else’s name and due date filled in. I brought it in, and the receptionist was like, “Ooops.” I tried to explain to her that it was a really big deal and that they are required to report. I could tell she did not care. I hate my job sometimes.

But shred bins shouldn’t be accessible to anyone but the shredding company. Most shredding companies provide locked bins with a slot for paper to be shredded.

As a lawyer who specializes in HIPAA, my first thought while reading this headline was, “well that shouldn’t be a problem because certainly no abortion clinic would be foolish enough to dispose of patient records in the trash...” But apparently these things still happen? I wonder how they can prove it was the clinic…

Usually NDA’s have a termination. Hers was probably 10 years.

It’s actually much more civilized than many other airlines’ boarding process because the queue is preset so there’s no need to rush the gate to get there first so that there’s room for your carry-on.

On Southwest, I always sit in the window of a row where there is a big dude on the aisle. It often works.