This is a great blind item.

Not that it's the same thing, but my sister makes a fantastic southwest chicken soup that has black beans and it's sooooooooo delicious. *sigh*

My main job is a park ranger at a state park doing night security. I had to fight to get the job. After being there for 6 years in other capacities, my male assistant manager had the gall to suggest I might not like it because I might have to get my hands dirty. Helping out with maintenance was never a problem for me…

See, I live in NY but waaaaay north of the city. It's essentially a different universe with redneck culture as the only thing around. I grew up in the middle of nowhere, but I was raised to value education and equality as core values, which seems to directly conflict with the prevailing attitudes of the region.…

I've got to build a veggie garden, but I plan on cukes, tomatoes, corn, summer squash, butternut squash, onions, garlic. (Two of those were "whoops, guess I should have eaten this sooner" refrigerator growths).

"Chemically speaking saying that water is wet has not much sense.We could however say that "Wetting process" is caused by the presence of a thin liquid particles layer over a material. In our specific case this depend from the chemistry of water and the chemistry of skin. So the main causes of the fact that water…

Yes, it is indeed a very good thing.

Sometimes I cannot tell which is worse- the dregs of the internet community or the backwards people which populate my otherwise lovely area. I've had a lot of practice being patient with idiots. I wouldn't be able to have a job otherwise...

Yeah, I've had to deal with all kinds of creeps over the years, but most of the people I have gamed with on PSN have all been polite and not gross (though some people treated me like I was a mystical unicorn since, you know, there are no girls on the internet.). Mostly the people with the strongest claim on jerky…

Indeed! I feel like an old person sometimes when I read comments on here because everything seems to be so snappish and quickfired.

It's more like it's annoying at this point (due to the level of ridiculous the shoes represent). Even more so when people who see sexualized game characters as something that is the only acceptable way to have a woman in a game. Given that I'm a woman gamer, I take issue with the concept that my input is less valid…

If anyone wants a fantastic New England Clam Chowder recipe, try this:

No, it's not about achieving victory, I simply meant we will never agree on that and I assert my position re: heels is the correct one.

How do you make your ramen?

I randomly found a recipe for homemade NECC at work on the ground one day.

I am body positive. I don't hate on this representation of Samus because she has body parts I find offensive; rather I take offense that it's an exaggeration of her features solely for the titillation it will give to the male viewers (same thing with cut scenes which highlight asses in games, too). It's unnecessary.…

No, it helps to open a level of discourse which is glaringly obvious that is necessary. That's the entire point. With writers, designers, game producers being predominantly male in these industries, there's less opportunity for a more even approach towards design and the way characters are treated. (Comic books are an…

Also, thank you for the civil nature to your response. I appreciate it.

I'm going to argue that I don't believe they "have" to go make every female character super sexy. There's actually discussion that it detracts from the overall connection with the female when she is presented as a sexual object (re: Halle Berry in Catwoman vs Sigourney Weaver in Alien). I'm not saying that they can't…

Common sense is anything but common.