So true.

First of all, I like history, and I like learning something new. Genealogy allows you to link history to an individual, to a real story. There’s the fun of discovery, and the feeling of empathy for an individual in the past. If it’s your ancestry, it ties you to events in the past. So, for example, there’s a murderer,…

Literature and film are not the same. This argument would make more sense if literature was being discussed.

They are all adorable, yes. The two dogs in the middle- a rescue Chow and a aussie x are about the same size. The mastiff x looks like a black Lab- only double the size he “should” be. The pug is tiny even for a pug, so that is our comedy team. It was really hard to integrate the rescue Chow in at first- and the Chow…

We have four dogs. Total chaos whenever anyone knocks on the door. They range in size- from a mastiff to a Pug.

Chow chows have black tongues.

T shirts!

This reminds me of the meme about homophibia being straight white men worrying that gay men will treat them like they treat women.

Utah used to not have fleas. Truly. It’s too cold in the long winter, too hot and dry in the summer, so no fleas.

I noticed a lack of songbirds in New England when I was there 2 years ago. Everyone was complaining about how bad the ticks were, but not making the connection between the lack of birds and tons o’ ticks. (Apparently the West Nile bird die off was severe there).

Good for her for recognizing a problem. I particularly like “iv) I commit to getting help with how I consume alcohol. It is clear that I lack self-awareness and become sexually entitled when I am drunk. This does not excuse my actions, I am wholly responsible for the damage that I have caused”.

Yes to the idea of showing who you truly are when you date. It’s nonsense to expect that you can do a “reveal” after a given period of time -your third date, the second month, your wedding night- and have anything but disaster follow. They’re going to feel deceived. And not trusted. I get there are deal breakers in…

If this was about reducing abortions, about saving babies, Daleiden and his PAC “Center for Medical Progress” would be all about free birth control/ birth control education and expanding free medical care for women all over America. Low cost to free birth control and education is the only thing that has ever dropped…

When the woman starts in on her demands, just look at her, wait a few beats, and say “Why? Why do you want to know?” You don’t have to do it in a snarky tone. And then, no matter what she says, just pause, look her in the eye, and then say “No.”

Who of us does not put on a social face, to “prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet” (the Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock, T S Eliot).

This is almost a good point. Anthromorphizing got a really bad rap about 100 years ago, when it was deemed “bad science” to give human qualities to animals or deities. We now know that there are animal species with cognitive abilities, among them cetaceans. In fact, cetaceans brains have a more complex limbic system…

Yes, Hattie McDaniel for “Mammy” in Gone With the Wind in 1939, best supporting actress.

This is the kind of statement when you realize that all of the other person’s knowledge consists of old movies. Hollywood History, folks.

Perhaps what is so very wrong about these remakes of Peter Pan is that they are, at heart, remakes of Disney, not the source material. There were some rich veins to mine in Barrie’s Pan- Pan is after all, a psychopomp, a figure who escorts the living to the afterlife. Barrie made it clear that his psychopomp status is…

I was more likely saying that good general health helps sex drive. Part of good general health is exercise, as hey...we are biological units. The body is more prone to self regulate and fix problems when it is being used, than when it is sedentary. But yours is funnier.