Sigh. One of the unpleasant things my older sister used to do when we were kids, before she turned into a decent human being, was only ever say nice things about me in style #3.

Some guy told me "You look really cool today!" a few weeks ago. Which I liked very much, because I was all dressed up in an outfit I'd put together carefully, and I DID look cool, and that phrasing didn't feel objectifying at all.

I don't have any personal experience with this, but I have had friends who struggled to conceive (I hope that it will help and not hurt to know that they did eventually have successful pregnancies and healthy children). The things you're feeling are very, very common in women with fertility issues, and I can tell you…

….all of this advice is good advice! Is it Opposite Day?

See also "lame" (a lame person is/was a person who is physically crippled in some way) and "dumb" (mute, as in "deaf and dumb").

Ayup yup.

Excuse me while I vomit.

Yeah, I looked it up because I was curious, and that clarified the situation nicely.

I used to live in Somerville, where one of the city's communication directors became something of a local celebrity based on his name. He was the voice of the autocalls that people could sign up for letting them know when they needed to move their cars for a snow emergency (this being Massachusetts, we had a lot of…

Anybody who thinks cats have dignity has never met one.

I wish that show would come to Netflix Streaming so I could watch it properly—I've only seen a handful of episodes here and there.

Correct.

Especially when they're as funny and smart and forthcoming as Amy Hill.

I don't know what it says about me that I still find that song hilarious even after a couple decades of high-profile mass school shootings.

Well, it's 281 items, not 281 tweets. If you look at the chart, some of those entries have dozens or even hundreds of different insults under them.

This is just the people, places and things he insulted on TWITTER, not all the

Yes, you are the only one.

Yeah, no kidding. I remember buying this when it came out, and in my mind, it's still one of their "recent" works, even though they've released, what, three albums since then?

I like The Decemberists and I like Lin-Manuel Miranda, but it never crossed my mind that they'd go great together.

Isis what you did there.