Doctors are typically required by law to keep copies of all patient records for six years. You can request copies, and the doctor has to provide them, but the original records stay with the doctor. If it was a matter of national security, which one could make an argument for, it’d be FBI or Secret Service that showed…

Yes, they can. That isn’t what happened here. By requesting your records, you’re asking for a copy of them. The actual records remain there at the Dr’s office.

Agreed about the birdhouse. I actually thought Dan made his point respectfully and kindly, and for Darlene (and the reviewer) to interpret it as “stifling Mark’s creativity” seemed kind of baffling to me. Make whatever birdhouse you like on your own time and money, but this was a commissioned job.

Yeah, we liked Nailed It, too! The judges make you feel better, not worse, about yourself for watching it.

I think that’s why Nailed It! really clicked with me. There was plenty of awkwardness, but none of the hosts had that rage. Even when one of the contestants gave them raw batter and I think another just... forgot eggs entirely.

Makes sense but tell that to the president.

Oh interesting but yeah I can see how being a porn actress would give you a bit more cache than other escorts. Plus don’t they regularly test for stds?

Ehh I don’t see what’s so weird about it honestly. Hair is at least one of the few things we can at least assume came from a person while they were alive, in which case it’s no weirder than a haircut. People used hair for all kinds of things. During WWII there was some specific use the military had for hair (beats me…

Yeah pretty much. When she says dialogue she really means she wants to talk at him long enough to figure out how to be the martyr of the encounter.

Not all of them. Surely enough to propose it and probably enough to pull it off, though.

This sucks for her, but it’s an illustration of something I think a lot of people don’t realize: There is no practical way of protecting recipes beyond keeping the ingredients/preparation process a secret. Neither trademark nor copyright law apply to recipes as recipes. While it is technically possible to patent a…

I normally wouldn’t do this, but, since this story takes place in a library, I have to rag on you for mixing up “principal” and “principle.”

I tend to just Google “name of show avclub” and it takes me right to it. I did that with Grace and Frankie.

Here is the transcript for those who missed it. Thanks to R. damascena who gave it to me.  

Okay....stop this thing that you are doing. Posting all the individual reviews for a Netflix season AT ONCE assures that barely anyone will be able to comment on it, as not many people actually have the time to sit down for like 13 hours in a row. AV Club did this with Jessica Jones and the end result was by the time…

They don’t want to release anyone from actual business related nda. It would be amusing if they accidentally released everyone from their business related nda and not just the interpersonal ones.

I have not read Wishful Drinking yet! I think that’s next. Difficult Woman sounds good, I’ll look it up and add to my list. My goal this year is to only read women authors. I thought it would be a good idea given the current landscape.

Geez can you dial it down a little? WC says they call her ‘dog nanny’ so you won’t know who she is and can’t google her. You’re very judgmental. I know plenty of bona fide dog trainers who disagree with the ‘tough love’ approach. WC sounds like they’re doing everything right - have a vet observe the dogs, get…

I still don’t buy Karen as a Trump supporter.

True story- I dressed up as Eleanor of Aquitaine for Halloween when I was 11. I was a seriously weird kid and NO one knew who I was when I was out trick or treating- so I lectured them. Yep- right there, blocking their doorway and explaining to them who she was and what she did and what a wimple was while they handed…