That's what I'm used to as well in Oregon. The pots are even labeled, "Regular" and "Decaf"! :P

I'm embarrassed to say that I flipped out at the Dunkin' Doughnuts at JFK, because I just didn't understand that they want you to tell them how you want your coffee. I just want my coffee. I want to put the cream and sugar in myself, and after a red eye, I just didn't understand the whole we mix your coffee thing. …

I once had a very awkward first date with a British exchange student, when he complimented my dress, and I thanked him and told him that I had stopped wearing pants entirely a couple of years ago. He was bright red, and I couldn't figure out why, until I realized he thought I was talking about underpants, not…

I had a hilarious local lingo misunderstanding last week with someone on GroupThink. I had made a post called "Adventures in cottaging", about my visit to the family cottage in northern Ontario. Turns out "cottaging" means gay sex in public washrooms in other parts of the English speaking world. Then I brought…

As a Northwesterner, I approve of his choice. FLANNEL AND BEARDS FOREVER

Oh shit a camera!!! QUICK EVERYONE LOOK HARD. THEO GOD DAMMIT.

Oh hey, speaking of which, here's a list of Things People Fear Most by Religion, which is totally scientific:

And when Christianity decides to a) get less intolerant overall, and b) actively shout down their own bigots, then we can talk.

"...due to a catastrophic birth defect."

Thank you. Why do people think pro choice in this case means being able to force a woman to abort? Is it because she's poor and brown? You use a surrogate, you give up power over the pregnancy.

No. Women carrying children in their bodies have veto power over whether those pregnancies continue. Even poor women who are surrogates. Just as all men have to accept this, rich bio parents using surrogates have to as well.

Down Syndrome is not a "catastrophic birth defect", for God's sake.

Or maybe you should accept that your inability to have a child doesn't mean you get to buy out some poor woman's uterus and then decide that, oops, you don't actually want it because it's not the perfect little snowflake you weren't actually capable of having on your own in the first place. And have fun explaining to…

I feel like, if you are looking into surrogacy, you should make it clear in the contract before inserting fertilized eggs that you have no interest in raising any potential disabled children, so that the surrogate knows going into it that she might have to abort, keep the disabled child, or give it up for adoption. …

Great minds think alike, I guess?

Fellen? If that's pronounced even remotely close to felon, that may be one of the world's most accurate names out there.

I don't fucking understand why people continually go to chain restaurants. Is it for the terrific food that is prepared in the oven in back from red and white boxes of TGI Fridays potato skins? Or is it the atmosphere with temperatures lowered to 62 degrees. At first the temperature tells you you're hungry, buy lots…

I'm loving 40s. I turn 42 in Nov and can't wait to be the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything.

I had a real Todd-Packer-like response to that Biden pic. I just wasn't prepared.