I'm positively sure that had you not appeared a 100% giddy and enthusiastic about your new job somebody would have said that you need to have a more positive outlook on life and be more grateful or something.

The American medical/insurance system works very hard (especially via political donations) to make sure that most Americans think that we have the best healthcare system in the world, and that Europe and Canada's systems involve waiting a year to get basic surgery and people dying from rationed medicine. That's why…

I worked at a fairly large cadillac dealership in the service department. The service department consisted of a very long building with service stalls on both sides and the dispatch office (where I worked) was right in the middle. I was one of the very few females employed in this department. It was a fun job but…

My best quitting story happened when I was working at a coffee place on my university campus. I had worked there for two years before I quit. The main reason I quit was because of this one girl. She was a terror. She would call people: stupid fucking bitches, dumb cunt, homophobic slurs, etc. She also was lazy as hell…

I've been nothing if not professional every time I've given notice at a job. I'm terrified of burning bridges.

In their defense, we don't know what health care costs in the US either. We know what health care -charges- but numbers are quite literally pulled from various orifices and put on bills here.

When I was studying in Japan I got a horrible flu. My host family took me to the ER where I was seen within 30 minutes, provided with medication, and only had a bill amounting to around $60USD. I couldn't find my student insurance card, so I think I had to pay full fare, too. It was amazing.

Actually, in the UK, you would pretty much get free care. In a lot of countries, emergent care IS free or nearly free to foreigners. It depends on the case, of course, but I have used emergent care in Germany and there was no bill. I was not "covered" there (I was covered in the states and through the NHS in the UK…

I'm an American living in London, and I am constantly amused (and dismayed) by the complete lack of knowledge by Europeans on what health care actually costs. When I tell them how much my uninsured hospital bills and Rx costs were back in the States, I always get the same slack-jawed, stunned look.

C'mon, he a good guy with a good heart/had a hard time/got a rough start/but he's finally gonna let it go...

I'm confused. Parents are reviled because they don't discipline their kids. They're reviled if they punish them. (You can't spank them!)

I don't get the tone of this article. So they didn't instill certain values early enough; should they just let their unchecked consumerism and spoiled behavior go on forever, or try to shift their outlooks now? Anything that makes kids less obnoxious when it comes to Christmas is good in my book. There is nothing…

This is probably one of the best Jezebel articles I've read.

As a woman, growing up Catholic is weird. I never understood why Mary's identity was purely based on her not having sex, priests never referred to her as just Mary, it always had to be The Blessed Virgin Mary. Even though it was a huge deal for this 14…

That is one point of view, but hardly the only way Christians, women, or feminists see the virgin birth. To say that good feminists should all view the virgin birth as oppressive is needlessly exclusionary.

There do happen to be a lot of feminists out there who are Christians. You would never know it from reading this site around Christmas however (or the piece on Good Friday about rejecting religion). Religious skepticism is not required to be feminist. I don't object to these articles appearing on this site (there…

This is sad for everyone involved, but this is what religious folks want. They would rather gay people marry the opposite sex and live in misery because they're not attracted to their partner than accept them for who they are and approve of them having sex with/dating/marrying same sex people.

Bingo. Look up the damn definition of racism, Whoopi - treating someone differently based upon the color of their skin. OF COURSE there is a wide range of the severity of that differential treatment, ranging from physical violence to lack of warmth or attention in social settings. Doesn't mean it doesn't stem from…

Hold on. Can we maybe use this as an opportunity to discuss tampons? Are they actually made for human vaginas? Am I the only one who has a (maybe) weirdly shaped vagina? Tampons kind of just turn sideways in there and literally do not ever expand into the V they are supposed to.

Anybody? Am I alone in this?

As a Denver native who grew up here in the 80's: It's Mile High Stadium. Is, was, and will always be Mile High Stadium. Or, "the new Mile High" if you prefer.