My Mom suffers from disordered eating and body image issues. (I use the present tense because, while Mom has gotten better, eating disorders are a lot like alcoholism or drug addiction — you're never not disordered, you're just in recovery.) At various times during my childhood Mom was actively anorexic and/or…

The other half is getting young "journalists" to understand AP style, which Ms. Hagerty seems to grasp quite well — hence her freedom from the Oxford comma.

"An architect who seven years ago suddenly and mysteriously lost the ability to read and write, ... Only recently did he find an explanation. While casually repeating his story during a fitting, a customer burst out a possible diagnosis, "Daniel, you've got Lyme disease."

The best part is the two little cheerleaders who, by the end, are visibly cheering on the downfall of their football-playing brethren.

You are the best mom.

Back in GWAR's alad days, they had a part-time female singer and performer called Slymenstra Hymen. Fierce lady singers are not exactly a new thing for GWAR.

I'm assuming that this is MAJOR cities, because here in rural Nebraska I get a full 1Mb/s, up and down, for $120. That's confirmed, actual speed — not just what's advertised. It's no Google Fiber, but it is a completely independent, regional (and awesome) mom-and-pop style company.

Yep. This is what speaking truth to power sounds like. Raw and real, and the first time in a very long while that I've been pleasantly shocked by something a sports commentator said.

I also really enjoyed Kingdom of Fear, his last book and the only new HST collection to be released after 9-11. On the list of books that I genuinely treasure and am thankful to own, Kingdom is very high.

More of this, please. I would have loved to see coverage on Deadspin or Fittish of Barshim and Bondarenko's incredible shootouts (pun not intended) this summer. High jump is an amazing sport and it's going through a genuine renaissance right now. Barshim and Bondarenko are in a race to beat the world record; both are…

Thanks! Both for the bump and the clarification about antibacterial soaps.

Personal anecdote: I used to be a competitive swimmer. Yeast infections and other "down-there" issues are common among people who spend a lot of time in chlorinated water, because of the effect it has on genital flora. I can't imagine that…

I'm not sure if this will make it out of the greys, but it's worth mentioning that bleach and strong anti-bacterial chemicals could potentially have a negative effect on your skin flora, which in turn could contribute to bad smells or even yeast infections. Most experts discourage the use of strong antibacterial soaps…

Most of the Internet is composed of A) kids barely pushing 20 and B) aging upper class Gen-Xers who only like Very Serious movies set in New York. That's pretty much it. Rodriguez was successfully combining his fun, B-movie sensibility with an elegant visual style and skillful use of color about 10 years before that…

"considering how lousy his co-director Robert Rodriguez's movies usually look"

Look, guy, we get it. If it's not about middle-class white people's problems, set in an impossibly twee version of New York and/or directed by somebody with the last names Anderson or Allen, you're not gonna like it. But the sentence quoted…

It looks like the high point of his career thus far has been entrapping speeders:

Agreed. After I read that, I had to put my head between my knees and take deep breaths. Almost puked on my own desk. THE HORROR.

I'm legitimately trying not to puke over that line.

During my time as a server, Ranch Abuse (that's a perfect term) caused me to develop a full-on phobia of the stuff. I once watched someone pour four or five ramekins of ranch on a perfectly good spaghetti dish and eat it. Inside my head, I was screaming so loudly.

You know what? This is my secret too. I'd rather die (LITERALLY) than let my mother, whose father died in part because of his smoking habit, know that I ever smoked a cigarette, much less that I had a pack-a-day habit for years.

TELL HER. Like laureltreedaphne, I have also been the fiancee in that scenario, and the fallout was life-ruining for me. People don't really change. He's going to do this again, and again, and she deserves to know what's happening.