I think a lot of this is that people who are close with their family don't understand the concept of not being close with your family. My parents weren't abusive, and I don't actively dislike them or anything, but...I just don't want to be around them. Like, almost ever. I have one or two things in common with my…

Yeah, if your take on your adult children telling you why they're upset is "they open their mouths and all I hear is whomp whomp whomp" then I don't think /they're/ the problem.

Denying things that actually happened is called gaslighting, in case you didn't know, and pretty serious emotional abuse in my opinion.

Oh yeah. I've seen it happen over and over. I mean as an adult I get that there are three sides to every story: Mine, yours and the truth - but the angry self - righteousness of people who physically abused me and literally abandoned me (as opposed to the equally sucky emotional abandonment) makes flames grow out of…

My kids disowned me because I praised them too much? Is that seriously what she's claiming?

I think sometimes abusive parents have a tendency to believe the lies they've told themselves about how wonderful their children's childhoods were. Particularly if their children turned out to be decent adults.

This is bullshit. Call it whatever new-age hipster shit you want, these parents have the right idea. There is ZERO wrong with letting your kids walk home together, especially if the distance is short. That's how they learn independence. It's how they become more aware of their surroundings, and it's how they learn to…

Homeschooling should be illegal

People who are "honest" and "tell it like it is" are really just assholes.

"I'm sorry for men not taking a greater stand in this area," Idleman adds.

"she got pregnant. I had an abortion."

My theory about the first season is the that Knope was supposed to be a Michael Scott clone (The Office was huge at the time), and it just didn't work. She's kind of stupid at first, instead of the hyper-competent if occasionally misguided Leslie we all know and love. I've gotten several people to fall in love with…

Chris Pratt posted a guitar selfie on Twitter yesterday captioned, "Goodbye, Lil Sebastian," and I legit teared up.

Who is next celebrity to make an app??

And I don't believe it's true

Somewhere in the Northwest, Ben Gibbard is writing a bummer of a song about this...but he was gonna write a bummer of a song anyway, he just has a topic now.

I would be glad to personally subsidize an all-you-can-catch lobster deal for him.

As a retail veteran, I can assure you, there are people in this world who are peculiarly sensitive to how you take money from them. "You did not just snatch that money out of my hand" has been screamed at me at high volume multiple times.

"She tourniquets her arm at the elbow with an ice pick and towel, washes the blood off, puts the offending knife onto the gas fire, heats it to a nice brick red and...wait for it...cauterize her own arm."

Ladies and gentleman, I give you the tale of Saint Basil Fuckoff, the patron saint of waiters and bartenders.