If you’re leaving a general comment for everyone, usually you start your own comment thread, not respond specifically to someone else’s conversation, unless you want to respond to their specific comment. I don’t understand how engaging with my skepticism that everyone on the keto diet doesn’t eat some of the foods…

Muhteşem Yüzyıl FTW! Turkish soap operas are something else. If you thought the telenovela was dramatic, Turkish soap operas are more dramatic but also more realistic which is crazy.

Thanks for replying to my comment to approve my own diet for me and to tell me to be well (???). Seems very necessary.

I mean, there are lots of diets or general ways of eating that emphasize high quality, unprocessed foods including lots of non-starchy vegetables and don’t forbid all fruit except a few berries. Keto isn’t the be all and end all, and many, MANY of its proponents are only too happy to tell everyone else why their diets…

This article is literally about a product that has two different types of cheese on it - so then I guess no one who follows a “clean keto” diet would be eating it, so it seems like a bad idea to make and sell then?

I didn’t realize the keto diet meant that these people never overeat anything, ever. Wow, then why isn’t everyone on it?

It’s hard because we’re at a point now, where in several states PP is the ONLY provider of abortions for that state (i.e., Missouri and South Dakota). The pro-choice supporters in those states are desperately fighting to keep those places open and there isn’t another organization or clinic to donate to. In my home…

binging on cheese, potatoes, and peanut butter does not seem healthier than my daily breakfast of oatmeal with a banana, which is FORBIDDEN UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES in keto.

I have the same feelings as the writer but I just won’t eat at a restaurant if they don’t have an option for a salad without fish or meat that isn’t the same price, and doesn’t have any other viable “healthy-ish” vegetarian options. Why would I pay $18 for a salad with shrimp or steak or salmon when I’m just getting…

I guess I don’t understand how Rihanna in a Chinese publication or Donna Summer in a Japanese magazine isn’t cultural appropriation, but Gigi Hadid (who is half Palestinian) in Arabian Vogue is.

Right. A paper which the importing government requires to be signed by the competent authority, which, luckily in the United States, is an agency which recognizes the licensing of veterinarians in the country and doesn’t require another examination. However, the process still costs the department time and money to…

Oh hey, Wisconsin is not Minnesota. So........gee, I wonder why people from the midwest don’t take “journalists” or bloggers from the coast who criticize them but can’t remember where they are located seriously. If you called Canada the United States or Egypt, Algeria, it would be ridiculous. But what’s a few…

This is very interesting to me because he’s been a huge supporter of and fundraiser for Obama and Biden and now he’s running against Biden? He detests Trump, though, and has been raising the alarm on climate change for almost 2 decades, back before it was cool or really taken seriously.

Nicki Minaj just now hearing that Saudi Arabia might be a problematic place for women. SMH.

Some years ago, people were less concerned about the spread of animal diseases that don’t exist on foreign continents or isolated islands. We’re smarter now and have successfully eradicated or controlled numerous animal diseases in certain countries or continents. So that $25 stamp isn’t to make pet owners’ lives…

More Reese’s PB Cups for me! I mean, the stores are overpriced and kind of excessively stupid, but kids get excited because candy and adults have nostalgia, I think.

I mean, there’s laws in the United States as well that groups cannot incite violence, although hate speech is generally allowed. What is that line? Difficult to determine between hate speech and hate crimes sometimes; the same with obscenities, but the semantics of freedom of speech, press, assembly, petition, and…

Yes. It’s easy to write a blog from your bedroom somewhere about all the things that are wrong with America - and there are so many. But for those of us out there who have actually worked in governmental, international, and private organizations in other countries around the world - so many Americans could use a…

In fact, many writers at this blog and associated blogs did advocate for not voting in the last election because it “didn’t matter” so yeah, I’d take all of this with a grain of salt. 

This happened about 6 months after my rape, in almost the same circumstances, except there was no video and I was a 31 year old woman. Of the 8 people I’ve told about it, 6 have asked me why I didn’t go to the police. This is why. It doesn’t matter. No one will believe you.