Everyone, take 5 minutes today and call your congress critters! Ask them to call for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate Trump's ties to Russia. (Or whatever thing you think is most pressing at the moment.)

District 9 was what immediately sprang to mind for me - I had no idea going into it that it'd involve such visceral body-horror. I'm surprised it isn't higher up on other peoples' lists…maybe the movie just wasn't as widely viewed?

My father in law is a hoarder (no biological matter, just stuff, thank goodness), and we've just recently gotten him to admit that he should clear some paths through the house. The notion of safety (at his age a bad fall would be a really big deal) didn't make any impact. But, we told him that if there was a medical…

I particularly appreciated that, with the mother's plotline, they also portray misuse/fallout from prescription drug use. A lot of the current heroin epidemic stems from the fact that people get addicted to prescription painkillers, because they figure that anything their doctor prescribes them must be "safe".

I remember really regretting eating lunch before seeing District 9 - that fingernail scene was awful (and not the only stomach-turning part of the movie, just the worst).

I don't know if our coworkers were just especially clueless or if we were better at being sneaky than I thought, but I was pretty surprised that no one had guessed. (I think it was more the "especially clueless" thing) Good luck with your office romance!

Someone doesn't have to have reasons to have issues with anxiety. Sometimes, it's just a matter of hormones, brain chemistry, and whatever else makes people prone to depression or anxiety disorders. And, from what I can see, Lars suffers from pretty crippling anxiety. He's so in his head worrying about what people…

Well, we didn't tell any of our coworkers we were dating until we were engaged, so sort of? I just showed up at work one day wearing a ring and kept having the following conversation:

I think most of the ones who were going to leave already did - there was a mass exodus at the beginning, and a lot of lower-level positions were left empty. I do know that before everyone left there was a free-for-all in the white house gift shop, with all the staffers trying to grab any leftover Obama swag they…

When they showed a world map a while back (I think in the Buddy the explorer one?), they showed that there's a great big impact site in Russia that's been filled in with ocean, so there are definitely some major geographic differences. I kind of wondered if that one was a reference to Tunguska.

Oh, definitely - the likelihood of that coming across wrong is very high.

If you're actually not interested in a long term relationship, that's one thing, but a few months is still enough time to figure out if you really like someone or not, and then the logistics of the move are open for discussion. List what you're actually looking for, because if you find someone who really is just…

Well, if she mentions where she works, it'd be rude not to give her a heads up. Otherwise, it could make things awkward for her at work without her realizing it.

I used the "I don't date people at work" line to gently turn down someone who I wasn't interested in, and then eventually ended up marrying someone else from work.

When we were staging my grandmother's house to sell it, she fought every bit of staging-related decorating we did. She'd go through after we left and put everything back, unplug the overhead lighting we'd installed, etc. Then, her "quilting" group came by (really just a drink tea and eat cookies group) and…

That's largely luck though - for every weirdly staged house that becomes an internet sensation I'm sure there's a lot more that just languish in the listings.

Point taken, although you'd have to question how much of that traffic is actually interested buyers, instead of people who want to gawk. But, at least all the clowns are easy to remove, so it's not like it'd cost the buyer money to fix. That Louis XVI monstrosity someone posted lower down is much worse in that…

Well, I'll give them this - those are some fairly non-creepy clown pictures. You'd think, though, that their agent might've suggested some sort of per-room clown limit before taking the photos. Something reasonable, like, say, a baker's dozen (for luck).

The yard is lovely, at least. The rest of it is…a lot of look.

Um…I don't understand why you're asking that - do you mean because I assumed "deliverance" would be death? He's a trickster in the book, and if you ask a tricky character for deliverance without being specific, you're probably not going to like the way in which you're set free. The "energy boost" comment I made was…