Starred for the naivete. I had a similar (but thankfully not as bad) story. When I started my first job out of college, my workplace was ~85% male and I was the only woman on my team and I did not work with any other females on the technical side of things for my job. I was 21, and a married 42-yr old began to come…

Blech on comments on people’s food or body :(

The “reverse massage” where your muscles are 10x tighter from the recoil effect.

I was totally thinking that its face looks like a bear! Someone must have told Putin about the other kind of bear...

Whenever I see a story like this, I always want to survey the bridesmaids: “How many of you thought the groom was a total dick prior to his ultimate dick move?”

I lean socialist in politics, but lean libertarian in living my life. I want to see healthcare for all, and everyone doing all in their power to not have to need that healthcare. The Hep C drug is quite amazing and some of the issue now is the backlog of suddenly being able to cure the millions of people who have…

An extraordinarily expensive one! States had to ration the new pill for Hep C due to the huge costs and insurance coverage is spotty except for the very sickest, so you will be in a looong queue if you are a healthy young thing before you get to be cured.

No offense, but many, many auto-immune disorders are actually life-threatening and Celiac is not. Also, the symptoms are diarrhea, constipation and possibly vomiting. It is long-term cumulative issues of not getting it diagnosed that is a problem since it can lead to other, worse auto-immune disorders (like MS) or in…

What you describe is what it should be, but “crime” is a very large category. Many of us might have sympathy for a single mom forced into prostitution to make ends meet versus a serial rapist who tortured his victims. Both have to serve time, but it is not unreasonable to have sympathy and a desire to reform one while…

In fairness to her, her mother joined when she was young so she was brought into it.

An excerpt I read elsewhere talks about him reaming a staff member for serving him tea in a chipped cup. It also seems likely from reports of other exs that his staff are all scilons too and extra fearful of crossing him, it wouldn’t just mean getting fired, but possibly disciplined by their church.

I agree that if you have read “Going Clear”, Leah didn’t do a great job explaining how she got stuck in it for so long or how many awful things the organization has done (the Narconon scam, draining members funds and then ditching them, etc). But I think she will reach more people with her book because of the…

I’ll warn before you click that Tony Ortega’s site on scientology is a huge rabbit hole you can get sucked into, but if you want the full scoop on when she “vanished” and where she is at, here is the link:

Aniston or Lopez? They both seem to live up to their personas in this retelling.

On the flipside, Zola needs to sit down and start writing up the screenplay. She could be making some money with her words!

Once I started, it was quite addictive reading. Thankfully it being twitter and all, it was a quick read.

I never gave a thought to haunted houses until my family moved to Connecticut. I knew of three people who had strange happenings in their old homes, none of them did anything about it, but the stories were very interesting and none of them were the type to make it all up. A lot of ghost stories involve pets behaving…

My husband is the primary driver and he is very happy with it. I am just happy he didn’t get a stick shift so that I can drive it on occasion.

It would probably be easier to confuse the emissions scanner and cause it to not get a valid reading than to dupe the scanner.

We just got one since the scandal while the local sales have slowed a bit.