“We think we know Ben Carson…” Has to be one of the strongest ever of the many examples of Steve Doocy Getting It Wrong. I don’t think I know Ben Carson. Ben Carson could not be more opaque. If Ben Carson is the best in the world at one thing, it’s being utterly confounding.

b/c of the often-questioned theory that nightshade plants cause joint inflammation.

Thanks, yeah, it stinks.

Please don’t feel unbrave. What you’re doing is extraordinarily brave & difficult. Cheering you on from my keyboard!

It’s been climbing a lot recently. My anecdata differs from yours…we have two family members in Western Mass who got hooked; one of them didn’t make it. My understanding is that it’s gotten pretty cheap in recent years, which has contributed to the issue?

Holy shit. Did you ever get any blowback from your insurer?

There are a lot of ill-behaved kids in the world, but not every severely disappointed child is a “brat” simply by virtue of his severe disappointment. This was a pretty mean-spirited act and I’m sure he felt like he had the rug pulled out from under him. Even adults need to go off by themselves for a cry every now and…

I dunno man, something happens to MOBs. My mother could’ve worn anything, really, and she went with palazzo pants and a mandarin-collar tunic. No one was MAKING her do this, mind you.

Hugging Goldie Hawn is never wrong.

Every time there’s a post about Bill Cosby, it seems like someone brings this up…dermatosis papulosa nigra is a super-common condition among people of color, particularly those who are older. They’re not warts, and millions of perfectly nice people have the condition. It’s not like some kind of dermatologic scarlet…

It was the best. It really was.

Often both, but the overall purpose of a mission is the latter more than the former.

There’s nothing else I can do that gets me more impressed reactions than that. I feel like an absolute superstar when I do my fitted-sheet-folding.

Yeah, I remember another mom of a freshman who wrote in to a column (I think also Prudie) a year or two ago, wanting to demand a daily call from her son. That mom was nuts. This mom sounds pretty measured by comparison. Notwithstanding the Christmas gift business, which is a bit silly.

Well, no, she’s not on the hook for things he may have done. But it’s hard not to see marriage as an ongoing endorsement of sorts of someone else’s character. So if she is (so to speak) endorsing him in this way, she’s on the hook for explaining why she’s OK calling someone who may be a rapist her partner. In this…

I now must come to terms with the fact that we live in a world where people are aware of that insipid bore of an actress Sarah Paulson while simultaneously having avoided knowledge of the glorious force of nature and perfection that is Holland Taylor.

The appeals process for death penalty cases is extraordinarily expensive and takes a very long time, so yes, in essentially all cases, it’s far more than it would be to imprison someone for life.

esp. if it was “glittery”—those little metallic pieces could have been making tiny abrasions in her skin.

I knew this poor kid who had very severe OCD with dermatillomania as a manifestation of the disorder, and he would specifically pick at the skin in and around his nose…he got MRSA infections on his nose 3 times that way. It was a mess.

Those were feelings/experience that were then followed by a more general piece of advice (the only way to stay safe is to stay away). One can respect her feelings as a victim while still disagreeing with that premise.