We had some research data that painted a much grimmer view of our industry than people expected, so when we were presenting the data in small groups there were frequently really awkward, stunned silences from our audience at some point. We started breaking that tension by saying "The Aristocrats!" at that moment. It…

People tend to misinterpret why forgiveness is important. Staying angry and letting things fester can be really harmful to your own state of mind, so it's important to be able to let things go when you can. If you genuinely can forgive a person who hurt you, all the power to you, but it's not always possible. In…

I got a really nice lemonade pie recipe off a cool whip container a while back - cool whip, lemonade concentrate, and vanilla ice cream for the filling. Usually I do it in a graham crust, but I'll have to try one of these crusts next time.

My grandma would have little mini pie tins, and we'd get to make (and eat) little mini pies with the scraps of dough left over from the main pie. It was the reward for helping her out in the kitchen.

For your average pie, I agree with you, but when the crust is done well, it's the best part. Anyone can put spices on apples and bake them, but it's really hard to recreate my grandma's pie crust. (That was one of my summer-after-graduating-college goals, and I never managed to get it to come out right.)

That's right! If you don't give a shit, you don't have to ask for forgiveness *or* permission.

I used to snicker when I'd watch shows like Alias, and they'd have people doing stuff on their cell phones in classified spaces, because that's all clearly in violation of operational security regs. Apparently those don't exist anymore?

It's almost as if they actively avoid anyone with experience or good advice to provide, and instead just do whatever appeals to them in the moment, without any planning or forethought.

I was a little late to the game, but I found out yesterday about the USDA deleting their public database of animal abuse cases (tracked everything from puppy mills to animal testing labs). Today 18 Senators wrote a letter to the department of agriculture about it, but I hadn't heard much about it overall.

She's a better roommate now than she used to be - a little over a year ago, all she did was drink a ton, burp, pass out, and then shit herself.

There's really no way to paint that particular action in a positive light. The only possible motivation is wanting to help businesses hide abusive activities.

I called all my congress critters about it yesterday, and today I got an email saying that one of them had signed on to a letter regarding the issue. I'm sure that was all because of my phone calls, of course. It is surprisingly quick and easy to bug them about things like this, though - just took 5 minutes to call…

Sort of a tangent, but I just heard about Trump having the USDA delete the public database that tracked animal rights abuses, so that people could make sure they weren't getting their dog from a puppy mill, etc. Was there a hubbub about that one that I missed, or did it get lost in the furor about every other shitty…

I'm proud of the moment when I suggested to my husband that Pulp Fiction was really all about the importance of good prostate health - every bad thing that happens to John Travolta's character , including getting killed, happens because he has to go to the bathroom at inappropriate moments.

Doritos are my toddler's new favorite food and she really does have a dorito dust five o'clock shadow right now - there are orange marks on everything in the house.

The "It's my money, and I want it now!" ads should get in on the action also.

Sounds like a pretty "besides that, what did you think of the play, Mrs. Lincoln?" attitude. I mean, the only way the president wouldn't be making so many stupid mistakes would be if Trump weren't president. Stupidity is pretty fundamental to his character.

Totally agree, although, of course, that's the whole point. By giving lip service to honoring people like Lincoln, they can then proceed to embrace everything he stood against with impunity.

Just have to say, "elimination chamber" sounds to me like it should be a British euphemism for a bathroom, a la "water closet".

When I drove cross country for a move we ate at just about every fast food chain once, but in the middle of the country there were all these weird variations on familiar ones - a Subway with a drive-through, a 7-11 with a sit-down restaurant, etc.