Whoa, usually if someone is trying to start a fight, he or she takes off the glasses first. He broke her glasses...just WTF?

I second San Marino.

This is good to hear. I do have some friends whose parents tried to push them into acting as kids, and the family moved a lot (NY, LA,Vegas) or they would get pulled from school mid-day or whatever. It wasn't something the kids wanted, so they look back on those experiences and kind of resent it.

I think the state of science education in this country is fairly awful. For Hollywood types, it's pretty much worse because they're so insulated. A lot of people start their kids acting very young, which has to interfere with their education, I don't care what anyone says. There's also such a demand on time in the…

I guess Diana had to give it to someone? I mean, she probably didn't want it sold to Ripley's or whatever. They should have a bonfire with it, though, that thing was ghastly.

I think having space and time to plant a garden may be a factor. In smallish town New England where I grew up, everyone grew their own tomatoes etc. In LA, very few people have the space to do that kind of thing. Also, I would be interested to see how this correlates with the type of work people do. I was at my…

No, but those sound like words to live by! Spending part of your teen years in Canada will do that to you...

I like it when guys have odd noses. Especially if the nose looks like it maybe got broken in a hockey fight back in the day.

That is awesome.

I think of her as a cranky, alcohol-soaked, judge-y fashion grandma. I mean, I love her and most of her stuff. But when she speaks it's like, Oh, look, Nana got into the wine coolers again.

Good for her!

I mean, I think at that point (refusal, which I think is unlikely) I would have contacted the media or started campaigning on Twitter. I get what you're saying about forgiveness vs permission, I do that at work. But this is a small child with a brain tumor, who probably needed more medical care in transit, even, than…

Thanks. I know the parents were frustrated, but reading this I was like, "Wait, they're in a hotel?" They want what's best for their child— I have no question about that— but they may not have the medical knowledge to give him what's best on their own, and he probably does need more care than what they can provide in…

Did the parents communicate the reason they were removing the child? "Hey, there's this clinic in Spain and they'll do the treatment, we're going there." My understanding was that in Britain you don't have to use the NHS, you can seek private treatment elsewhere. But if someone walked out of the hospital with a young…

Like I said, I didn't hear about it until after the fact. Which I think was better, in a way. I had basically sort of cut off contact by that time. I wasn't going to see the band, and I didn't have to see him at work anymore.

One of my cousins went through a thing when he was about 4 months old where he just howled all day. (I think this is a stage they all go through? He wasn't sick or anything. Just growing or teething or whatever.) Every time I think I want a baby, I remember the week I spent at my aunt's trying to help out with him.

I have one! He got married recently (it was very sudden, and I heard about it after the fact). He's in a band with my friend, so I had to stop seeing them live. I also couldn't TELL my friend why I stopped seeing them live (he would've blabbed, and the gf/now-wife would've been angry) so it has created weirdness…

I am sort of caught between grumpiness and optimism tonight. I got kind of a lot done today! Volunteered with dogs, went swimming, went to the library, ran a couple other errands too. I am grumpy because the check I am waiting for did not arrive, which means now I have to wait until Tuesday for it. At the earliest.…

Canada is nice! You will like it! And there are other Irish expats there. You will do awesome.

It's 2014. I am the only person I know who doesn't have a tattoo. I have comic book (unnatural) red hair and work part-time in an accounting department where they really like me. Why is this school's dress code stuck in 1963? And why did they embarrass the kid, instead of having a conversation with the Mom over the…