In physics lab, we had to look at strands of our hair under the microscope once. (I imagine there was more to it than that, but I don't recall.) My lab partner was an Indian guy with long, frizzy hair, but his hair strand put mine to SHAME. It was perfectly round and smooth, whereas mine was flattened and damaged.…

Lindsey Graham is kinda making sense. Gross.

Ugh. This 80% vacated nonsense. First, the number is 60%. Second, SCOTUS overturns 75% of cases in which it grants certiorari.

@Fridge Hussy : Is finally heading back to uni!: Oh, I hear ya. I just think back to how depressed and alone I felt back then, and I would hate for someone in that position to read a comment dismissing their struggle. It's just a demoralizing illness, because it's painful, everyone knows you have it, and a lot of…

@Zombie Ms. Skittles: OK, but cystic acne (the kind of acne Proactiv doesn't do shit for) is really, seriously painful. I have had shingles, which is supposed to be crazy-painful, and I have had cystic acne. They were about on par, but at least I knew the shingles would go away. Cystic acne keeps reappearing. Also,…

I went to college with Anna Chlumsky, and she married a guy from my floor. She seems like a really cool woman, and I wouldn't be surprised if she read this website.

Lindsay, Russell Brand has been on my radar for a while now, too. Trust me, he will not give in no matter how many times you show up at his front door...

@R_Claw: I'm like this too, or was, I should say. I either dated totally distant assholes and loved it, or nerdy pushovers who I eventually verbally abused. And when they let me berate them, I became disgusted with them.

@Cole23: If you go to the LA Times, you can read parts of the opinion. The judge did not base his decision on the testimony of Grills; he based it mainly on public policy.

@ASmallTurnip: She was convicted of accessing MySpace servers (i.e. posting), having violated the terms of the User agreement. Under that standard, I could be guilty of a misdemeanor by commenting "Cute shoes", or "Eat a sandwich" on the next Snap Judgment here on Jez. While such a comment would be reprehensible, do…

I just read the LA Times article on this, which states the judge's reasoning. I think it was good. The US Attorneys were really trying to create an ex post facto crime using these misdemeanor statutes that were not designed to prevent this type of harm.

@Madlenka: I wrote into Dear Prudence once and they published my letter word for word. I wasn't sure if I was being unreasonable about something, and Prudie said I wasn't. Yay!

@Prince Naveen is black. He's just using Murray's.: I've never heard the term he used. I've heard psychopharmacologist, which is a kind of psychiatrist who specializes in prescribing drugs. I guessed that's what he meant, but I could be wrong.

@nessalicious: It is truly the best expression, and I think he would be honored if it crossed the pond. (Or honoured, if you like.)

@TheFormerJuneBronson: Thankfully, I kept most of my self-centered thoughts to myself, so my parents didn't suffer too much.

@tailfeather: Thank you! I knew I had been seeing this ad everywhere lately, and I thought it was here.

@nessalicious: Ha! That's what my brother calls being stoned. As in "I was a little jazzy," or "The guy who sells me jazz."

@velvet.fistfull of love: They person who writes your scripts for Adderall and Valium. You don't have one?!?

This made me squiiiiirrrm last night! I had to turn it off, because I was definitely that self-important at 17. I thought that I was so special and it was so painful to be me and no one would ever understand me.

@stoprobbers: As far as I can tell, Jackson never stopped identifying himself as an African American man. He was proud of his background, proud of his community, proud of his heritage. The cosmetic surgery — his nose, his chin — was clearly an attempt to physically distance himself from his father. But his skin?…