Girl, I get that. The lizard brain wants what it wants.

Hyperarticulate political shop talk. I had my sexual awakening to The West Wing (Sam Seaborn and Jed Bartlet are my forever crushes) and later dated a speechwriter for about a year. He'd take me to his work parties and I'd get super turned on just listening to him network. I don't know, guys.

Thank you thank you thank you for posting this. I'm currently at what I really desperately hope is the space between your first and second paragraphs trying to put things back together after a terrible breakup with somebody who was just never going to feel the same way about me and just couldn't be bothered to move…

I am almost weeping reading this. Sometimes I am up to here with the "love yourself" rhetoric because Western culture is severely lacking in a dedication to community, but the advice in Polly's column is solid gold.

Yet, nothing is done about sexual assault, short of blaming the "attacker," a guy who was likely as drunk as his "victim." [...] If drunk women who have sex are able to claim "rape," why aren't drunk men alleviated of responsibility for the poor decisions they make?

"You're so good at being GOOD. But how good are you at being YOU? You know what makes a spark? A real human being with a bad attitude who's tired of moving shit just to sit down in a motherfucker's apartment. A woman who, after 18 months of doing everything together, doesn't sigh and say, "Okay. I'm hurt, but I…

Poor kid. First her parents make her move to Florida, now this.

[...douche canoe...]

I'll agree with him on one point; gotta get out of Atlanta. 'Course I just hate the traffic and I'm not a giant whiny douche canoe but tamayto tomahto.

Pedant mode on: The line was "Phenomenal cosmic power.... itty bitty living space." (not "infinite")

Thanks for the nightmares and for making me buy a flashlight to check under my bed every night now for the rest of my life.

Dear everyone, this is what the teeth of large non=venomous snakes look like. Love, Your Nightmares

How the shit can you "abandon" a miscarriage?

Do we REALLY need to have a conversation about the history of American Indian boarding schools run in this country for hundreds of years and their policy of forcibly cutting children's hair in direct violation of their native cultures in an effort to destroy their identities and reshape them as good little Christian…

Maybe it's too sexy and distracting to the girls?

Oh, cool. A devastating end to a shithead summer

I have just realized that I am actually meant to be an author, but I don't plan on ever writing anything ever. I just wanted you to know that.

Actually, I kind of agree with Prudence here. She's in a monogamous marriage to a man. They are not opening it up, apparently, to include others. Marriage presumably means forever. Unless the topic came up of its own accord, what would be the point of making an announcement?

You know what else has health benefits? Chicken soup. Much safer to make.