For me, Tris dying was a highlight because I had come to hate her so much. And Shailene Woodley’s characterization made me hate her even more. I would watch the last installment on DVD just so I could loop the death scene over and over while cheering.

That’s what I did after reading the third book. It was on my Kindle, so you know I was serious.

Forget the series, that’s a good plan for Shailene Woodley. It won’t be a particularly cruel thing to do to her- that hippy loves nature.

Can’t we just take this franchise for a long drive to the country, open the back door and let it frolic blissfully in a field, while we floor it and leave it behind in a cloud of dust?

1) Transformed healthcare with kids through CHIP which was the main inspiration for Obamacare which she helped to write and make law. That’s why people say Hillarycare instead of Obamacare sometimes.

38 minutes ago, that sentence tore a whole in the universe

That male cheerleader is like something out of a Marines commercial.

And they say women couldn't stand the heat of battle. SHE, ladies and gents, is who I want to be in a foxhole with.

Surely if the internet bands together we can find her and celebrate her for the goddamn hero she is.

She tourniquets her arm at the elbow with an ice pick and towel, washes the blood off, puts the offending knife onto the gas fire, heats it to a nice brick red and...wait for it...cauterize her own arm.

"She tourniquets her arm at the elbow with an ice pick and towel, washes the blood off, puts the offending knife onto the gas fire, heats it to a nice brick red and...wait for it...cauterize her own arm."

Look, can we just call everyone an asshole?

Celiac isn't a gluten allergy, though, and there are non-Celiacs who are allergic to gluten. There aren't a lot of them, and most people claiming to be allergic to gluten these days are completely full of shit, but they do exist. A better test is to see if someone understands that "gluten" and "wheat" are not…

Was at our town's new "deluxe diner" last week. It's fantastic and they are brand-new so the waitstaff is still getting their footing, figuring out staffing patterns, menu quirks, etc. The food is sort of upscale diner-ish and just delicious. Anyway, as my table was finishing our meals, a new table sat next to us. Two…

If someone actually has Celiac, they tell you they have Celiac, don't they? So can we all just agree that if someone declares themselves as "allergic to gluten," that they're just an asshole?

"VERY allergic to gluten"

I'm glad it helped. The issue of audience complicity in violence has been explored by many performance artists (Abramovic, Chris Burden, Yoko Ono etc.) and one thing we've learned from their work, as well as from social science research like the Milgram study and the Stanford Prison experiment, is that there's really…

Yeah, I taught an undergrad performance class once and if one of my students proposed this piece I'd have some very tough questions about its scope and purpose, the implicit interactional parameters they expected, and what they would do if an audience member violated one of those parameters. I probably wouldn't…

It's because it's not a black and white situation. As a rape survivor, frankly this pisses me off. It doesn't feel legit to me. The way he's talking about it, as if he couldn't say no and couldnt even talk to his girlfriend about it because he was SO committed to the ART, oh and the poor other boyfriend... to me it…

This breaks my heart even more than the original post. Maybe I'm generalizing based on my own experiences, but there are those good and bad moments in our lives that we crave to repeat or struggle to forget. I don't know if anyone saw the movie 'The Loneliest Planet", but there is a scene where one of the characters…