To be fair, I think every young person through history has felt unique and misunderstood. This generation just gets to do it in public. And much more attention is paid to it. But yeah. Just read an article about how today's 20-somethings have to get drunk to work up enough confidence to have casual sex and OMG is this…

I vote for the "novelty" theory. I'm not nostalgic for my 20s, as I was overall pretty confused and miserable, but what makes me a little melancholy is the thought that never again (okay, never say never, but it just doesn't happen anymore) will I believe that this night, this city, this person, this new club, this…

Seems like a direct parallel to me. Oh well.

And I think it would be equally disrespectful to call a woman "Mrs Husband's Name" if she had not changed her name to his, and had a career and identify under her maiden name.

A lot of social and political activism, historically, was instigated and supported by people who were not shackled to the system. Some were middle class or had an independent income. Others were just more free to take the risks involved — no dependents, or being ideologically committed to the cause and willing to make…

I dunno, they look bow-legged to me. Their calf-gaps are even bigger than their thigh-gaps. Though the one on the left is also standing pigeon toed. That said, I would think that if you're trying to show a pair of tights, they're going to display better if your legs have space between them.

Dorm sounds horrendous, like some interminable extension of home/high school/summer camp. I got my own (shared, but with a roommate I chose) apartment when I was 18 and honestly, at that time in my life I would never have gone back to university if I had been forced to live in a dorm. Later maybe, when I was more…

My ears don't itch. I did have a friend who had chronically itchy ears to the point where she was poking really deep trying to scratch, even though she knew it was dangerous, and she ended up puncturing an eardrum and had to have it repaired. It sounds like torture!

Oh, lord. People's natural tooth color varies. I have had more yellowish teeth since I was a kid, and it has nothing to do with brushing or hygiene. Sure, she could bleach them, but don't try to suggest they're not "clean".

Ear wax question: How much ear wax is normal? How often do most people clean their ears and how often do they find wax? I might do it once every couple of weeks and usually there is nothing there. Wax is meant to protect your ears, so is it less-healthy to not seem to have any? It's actually a type of oil that…

A couple I know spent $15,000 on chemo for their dog so it could live an extra six weeks and they had time to say goodbye to it.

I don't know if it was this scene, but in the story they said she was refusing to follow the director's blocking so they had to switch to handheld in order to follow her wherever she decided to go.

"Healing Crisis" is another of my favorite naturopathic euphemisms ... basically means, something weird is happening to you and we don't know what it is. Since it can be any symptom, and can last any length of time (just means you've got lots of toxins to expel!) and it must be "good" because nobody could possibly…

I don't know who these people are who feel massive amounts of energy the longer they starve themselves. I did a juice fast once and I got more and more and more slow and tired til I could barely drag my feet up some stairs. At which point I thought, WTF is the point of this, and stopped. Wave of sparkly energy never…

The importance of posture seems to be completely ignored in North America from both a cosmetic and health standpoint, yet it makes an immense difference to how you look and present yourself, as well as your physical health. There's a million articles about makeup and fashion and hair but I can't say I've ever seen…

I am sure there are forces at work trying to eliminate libraries, and many governments happy to cut funding as long as they can get away with it. And step one is bright-eyed journalists writing puffy pieces about the future of e readers, without noting, or knowing, any of the downsides.

yes, i was very surprised to discover my library rations e books just as if they were print books, and as some commenters note, even more so. So much for the brave new world of information! Everything is trying to move to subscription-based, where you do not actually own a copy of anything — music, software, books —…

As far as I could tell from the sponsor plugs last night (I have looked no further), their partner in post secondary education is Phoenix University, an online distance-ed education corporation aimed at working adults.

I hate "passionate!" It means nothing anymore, it just lets you sound creative and visionary while you're weaseling out of projects and situations. And of course, if you can only work with passionate people, it proves that you're super-passionate yourself. In reality it means: the person wants too much money, they…

Almost everyone that I know who's been called to jury duty has been able to get out of it by pleading economic hardship of some kind. Here in Canada, you get paid $20 a day, which goes up eventually to something like $50 per day once a trial extends beyond a month. So if you're self employed, or in a job that doesn't…