When I was living in Louisiana there was a fellow who would drive into neighborhoods wearing mesh thong underwear and get out and bend over to spread his butt under the guise of digging around in his car or would stop and ask people for directions to fictional addresses so they could get an eyeful of his get up. The…

Yeah, I guess it’s more obvious to people who live in the swamp, but alligators are everywhere down here. When I lived in south Louisiana, once the weather warmed up, I literally saw an alligator almost every day.

I’m from Louisiana. In swampy areas, there are alligators literally everywhere. They live side by side with humans. It’s their natural habitat. And Disney World was built in the middle of the swamp. Attacks are honestly pretty rare but alligator populations have been increasing due to wildlife management (they were…

She’s a columnist bro. That’s literally what she does. She’s paid to have an opinion.

Yes. I have a crazy sweaty face and it’s terrible. I used to be a reporter in south Louisiana and I would have to interview people outdoors in the dead of summer with sweat pouring down my face. Not a good look for a professional lady.

I am legitimately worried about this. I want to have kids someday, and yet sometimes I have to take a break from cleaning up cat barf to dry heave over the sink. A baby might kill me.

I grew up on the beach. I have been crapped on and had my food stolen more times than I can count. But it’s hard not to feel bad for little curry gull...

Yeah. Seriously. When I baby sat in the 1990s that’s what I was told to do. I mean, it was no fun and quickly turned me off of babysitting actual babies vs. kids, but I thought it was normal.

I dunno about people just AirBnBing to go on a traditional vacay, but my hometown is a small Gulf Coast beach town that is chock-o-block full of AirBnB rentals (most in neighborhoods side by side with full time residents). You better believe people are renting those beach houses to party.

Yeah, I feel you. I’m a salaried manager making $49K.

I used to work at a newspaper and they pretty much did this. We were hourly, so we were required to be paid overtime but harassed endlessly by management about using it, even though we were constantly understaffed and no one could do their jobs in a 40 hour week. At some points this led the younger staffers to work…

Animals, especially big ones, can cover a lot of ground in the time it takes a tranq to work. And obviously getting hit with one can make them pretty pissed. I had to work with some Wildlife and Fisheries agents who were trying to relocate a black bear that was hanging out in a suburban neighborhood and they never…

I wonder if it comes back around again, because the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the Bush years actually made my pretty conservative mom loop back around and become a Democrat in her 60s.

:( That’s sad. I have some friends who did a reverse and went from casual Catholics to super devout anti-birth control Catholics carefully studying Theology of the Body after their eight-year-old son suddenly drowned to death at a pool party. People find different answers, I guess.

Yeah, Dawkin is kind of a butthole and I’d rather not be associated with him.

My mom was very devout, so I had a lot of conflict with her. Eventually I just kind of came to terms with the fact that the church is a social structure that brings a lot of comfort and aid to people and that’s okay. My mom has had a lot of tragedy in her life, as her dad died young and her own mother had a mental…

Same. I grew up in the church but it never felt quite right to me. Most of my struggle was in accepting that it was okay for me to not “get” Christianity when it seemed to work for everyone else. But I imagine people’s beliefs can probably continue to alter into adulthood as they experience things like divorce, death…

yeaaaah this rubbed me the wrong way a little bit. ADHD medication is already a super highly controlled substance in a lot of states and is really hard to get for the people that need it. My boyfriend has terrible ADHD that almost ruined his life before he got on medication but he can only get single 30-day scripts…

Yeah I get what you’re saying. I just thought that book was the first one that started going completely off the rails for me. I enjoyed the first half but the second half with slave magic, Mr. Willoughby, murderers, Geillis’ plot, pirates, shipwrecks, random drunk priests, etc etc. I was like is this even the same…

Dear God I hope they cut Mr. Willoughby. He is THE WORST. Pretty racist and I think they could excise him from the plot without much harm. Is there anyone really clamoring for a foot-fetish obsessed drunken Chinese stereotype that trains a pelican to fish for him?