With apologies to Hemingway:

I'm not sure I agree that the series was intended for 12 year olds by the time it ended.

I'm pretty sure I have discalculia (number dyslexia!), based on the description. I did okay with math in elementary school (other than needing a tutor to teach me how to tell time because I just could not wrap my head around a clock), but once I hit algebra, I was out. Letters and numbers living together?…

I agree; this was really interesting, Annalee!

Okay, but seriously. Don't get a pre-nup if you only have $17. The lawyer fees alone totally negate the purpose.

AKA, a troll.

You have to have something to be proud about other than a lost war based on using human beings as currency and workhorses. Really. Come up with a new Southern flag, one that doesn't specifically refer to the South attempting to leave the Union so that a subset of people could remain enslaved. Really think about it.

If the South rises, wouldn't it become the North? Catch-22.

Not if we keep taking their license plates.

Sorry, but AA has worked for me and many of my sober friends. I go to LGBT meetings and not a single one of them ends with the Lord's Prayer. I am reading lots of comments from people who are not addicts and who really don't know anything about how the program actually works. I spent 3 decades trying to do it on my…

You obviously have never read the AA literature, but only siphoned off others' opinions/interpretations. AA only requires that you not see yourself as the greatest power in the Universe, that you acknowledge there is power greater than yours. This is so you can become 'right sized' and see your life's issues with the…

Very well said. AA has 2 million members alone, and it honestly works for those who commit. There is no way to track who is giving it their all, and who is in the half measures group. It would be like stating "diet and exercise must not help you lose weight, for look at all the obese people who have tried it and…

I'm so sick of reading all these articles and comments by people who speak about AA/NA and addiction with gross inaccuracy . As a recovering addict, with years of first hand experience in both programs, and who has first hand experience with methadone and Suboxone, I feel qualified to speak, and would like to set the…

Co-sign. Shit is delightful.

The good thing (if there is a good aspect here) is that he got first aid right away, was taken off the mountain by helicopter and then sent to Grenoble to their best hospital. Medical treatment of closed head injuries has come a long way and the trauma doctors know so much more about these injuries then say, way back…