I was coming down here to say that this entire phenomenon can probably be based on the existence of Maybe on Facebook. I don't blame people for using it when it's there, but man does it encourage flakiness.

Well, sure. And if you're pretty sure you don't want to go when invited, well, that's when you make up your phoney-baloney excuse and respond no. Obviously cancelling is a case by case basis. If it's a dinner party where my absence means a little more leftovers isn't the same as being an empty seat at a wedding.…

Still, if you say yes, the person will spend extra preparing your spot. I was raised to only cancel under extreme circumstances, if I'd RSVP'd yes. Part of being an adult is sometimes just sucking it up and going, even if it's not what you personally feel like doing at this very moment.

Passive voice ftw.

We accidentally went into the shed where we keep the supplies for swim class, and we accidentally rummaged around in there for a while until we accidentally found the pool noodle at which point we accidentally gave it to this blind child and accidentally told him he had to use it for two weeks.

Should be:

Yeah, it's like an accident giving this boy a real gun instead of like a water pistol. Which is apt.

I'm also pretty sure that in yesterday's post on Gawker about it, someone from the district confirmed that they did, in fact, punish him by giving him a pool noodle instead of his cane. Backtracking when you're quoted on the internet is not so much possible these days.

I mean, except for the size, material, and flexibility, they are practically the same object!

yeah like... where did the pool noodle even come from

I don't think she was. Nothing about this suggests she'd ever sat on a horse before.

Given that a) she's mounting from the wrong side, and b) didn't realize this is a terrible idea, she probably has never been on a horse before.

I think he means it in the same way that coming out as gay is just a phase and saying you're a feminist means you just aren't ready to settle down, i.e., he means that "since they don't think exactly how I think they're wrong and just haven't figured it out yet".

"Heck, they're not even sure where they are on a lot of issues."

That mental image is somehow less distressing than the mental image of Rick Santorum the person actually having sex with a human woman.

I bet Santorum either approaches sex like Kenneth the Page ("I like your top. I'm a real good sex person. I do it all the different ways.") or he's into some freaky man-on-dog shit.

Normally I dislike attacking politicians based on their personal appearances, but the man does have an unusually stupid face.

Anyone else sort of annoyed that he suggests that young people don't really know where they stand on issues? Maybe I just know a lot of politically-minded teens, but I feel like kids really do know where they stand on today's issues. The main problem is we can't get them to the polls.

A theatre professor of mine once worked on a show that cooked real food onstage. It was so integral to the script that they actually had a real kitchen built onto the stage. Part of this was a coffee pot. One night, during intermission a man walked *on to the stage* poured himself a cup, and one for his wife, and…