Dear Prudence,

I run an advice column, but I've actually been cribbing my letters. This has gone on successfully for years, but I'm getting nervous about being caught. Please help!

Signed,

Dottie Rainolds

Can we just go with "never?" It is NEVER ok to leave children or animals locked in a hot car. COME ON, people. This is Texas. Heat indexes are expected to reach 105 today, you could bake cookies on the windshield of your car. And it's just gonna stay this way until October. We ALL know this. We go through this EVERY…

All these viewers in DMA market #174 pissed off that they're missing the end of a soccer match. If that's not proof the sport has "made it" in America, I don't know what is.

Oh my god. Why was he hiking in Death Valley in July? This stuff happens so often here and I just can't understand it. It is so so so fucking hot you guys. Unbelievably hot. And there is no shade to be found anywhere by 12:00. Unless you are out before sun up and hiking at elevation you should not be out hiking…

also mmmmmmmmmmmmm unlimited cheddar biscuits

...yes. The government built the roads and the bridges. Rich people didn't fucking build society, and at this point the vast majority of them aren't its vital organs, they're its tapeworms. I'm glad you realize that (no, you don't).

"Do you actually believe that everyone who is rich earned their wealth, or have you just been confused by an invisible system of networks, bridges, opportunity, hand-holding, inheritances, staggering debt, and even outright criminality in some cases behind it?"

As a queer person, I have very little sympathy for individuals who use their own self-hatred to perpetuate homophobia. Especially a Catholic Archbishop, given that most of my abuse was at the hands of peers in a Catholic school for the mere belief I was gay (I am, but as lesbian trans woman, I was mistaken in large…

Strong anti-gay Catholic priest is accused of sexually abusing other men and boys. Where have I heard this before?

Thirty years ago, I spied my husband in a class called "Literature of the Absurd." He was tall and had brown eyes. He looked smart. I was ready to move.

I don't understand this article and I'm glad I don't.

That does depend on the state. Some (like California) don't allow tips to count toward the minimum wage requirement - but many other states do.

Also it would be a good lesson to the children to return something to it's rightful owner if it was wrongfully taken from him/her/them

Gender, Human Security and the United Nations: Security Language as a Political Framework for Women (Routledge Critical Security Studies)

Holy crap, she could not look more badass. I think I just found my avatar (finally!)

That is awesome. Ghazala's promotion isn't just about a woman being promoted in a typically masculine field. Gender equality in the security field also tends to correlate with more peace and stability in a community.

I know the look on her face. It says. I am a professional and if you fuck with me or insinuate I am incapable of the job I will disembowel you and show you what the term intestinal fortitude really means. I love that look.

The nicest compliment that I've ever gotten came from a queen at a drag show. She told me that I looked like a cross between Sheryl Lee Ralph and Audra McDonald. I fucking floated away.