"imagine being married for 20 years with NO communication" — Ken, there are many who would consider that an improvement.

This happened to my coworker. She was from Poland and he was Canadian. She went out for drinks with a friend and some guys. The friend ditched her to go off with one guy, and my coworker was left with this man. She spoke very, VERY little English and he spoke absolutely NO Polish...but they somehow hit it off and have…

This has nothing to do with free speech. It has everything to do with Free Enterprise. It is a company's (who is a person) right to make money and profit free from too much government oversight. If an employee tarnishes a company's reputation through their actions, that company has a right to fire that employee in…

I completely agree with that idea. Whether it was Olin's place as a community manager to talk about current events is up to interpretation. If you have opinions you know might cause a stir, don't put them on the place where the entire world can see.

Well, I kinda agree with this Olin guy. Kinda. Donald Sterling does have a right to be a bigot in the privacy of his own home. Of course, if anyone were to find out how bigoted he was - say through someone leaking a recording of a conversation he had - that's no longer the privacy of his own home. And of course,…

"This infuriated Hernandez, who according to the prosecution felt he had been increasingly disrespected at clubs."

Ugh, sounds like the same dysfunction as Elliot Rodger.

I read the headline that way too. I was prepared to be impressed by Manhattan's physics-defying tricks.

Came here to see Manhattan tumbling out of a single gigantic airplane. I am disappoint.

Please tell me you have a link to pics of that...!

Revitalization efforts always have this fine line to walk vis-a-vis secondary consequences. Raised property values can push out families that lived there for generations and ironically destroy communities that the new version of the neighborhood never really replaces. Moving rail stations outside the city center may…

or black.

Impressively, you just admitted to neither reading the article you commented on, nor the comment you replied to.

Yes. It also helped people understand what I had gone through. If you have never had depression, it can seem bewildering. I wish I would turn green (shade deepening as depression grows) so that people had a physical *thing* to see along with the illness.

Oh, my gods, yes. People don't get that you often reach a point where you just don't feel. Nothing has a point, and it's not an existential crisis where you see the universe and society and everything around you falling into the inevitable destruction of all, but just that nothing has a point to doing it.

You should send this to her! I'm sure she's heard from others, but I'm betting that every story like yours makes it easier for her to tell hers!

I love the Hyberbole and a Half comic and think it's a brilliant piece of flat-out literature, but comics like this have actually confused me? In that I had this picture of what depression felt like from them, and because of it when doctors asked if I was depressed, I always said no. Because comics like that told me…

There are times when I feel as though Hyperbole and a Half literally saved my life.

I taught college classes at a medium-security prison for three years. Studies showed the program reduced recidivism rates from 70% to 21%, saving taxpayers 50 cents on the dollar in incarceration costs.

Why not have both? Exercise and weight lifting can help make for better learners.