My daughter watches some Sesame Street on Netflix and Hulu and they STILL use this song ( I swear it's the original recording) but they updated the visuals to this weird claymation rube-goldberg machine type thing.

That sucks about the possible Crohn's disease link, but I'm actually (relatively) happy to see the rise in autoimmune diseases mentioned here, and the fact that so many sufferers (I think 70%, last I checked) are women. I have an autoimmune disease and know many, many people who are young or youngish like me (early…

Oh, yeah, I'm way too well aware of this, and god knows I've been guilty of it. You're so sure you're right that OBVIOUSLY everyone else is wrong, and they'd see that if you just explain it better, and what the hell, now THEY'RE calling YOU crazy? What is this topsy turvy world!

Interesting! I have Crohn's disease and although my symptoms started before I began taking the pill, I discovered when I took a break from it after 3 years of taking it that my symptoms almost disappeared. My specialist said that it wasn't the first time he'd heard of that happening. The finding in the article isn't…

That's interesting. My 20s were spent with chronic diarrhea that was diagnosed as IBS. Until I was 33, I was prescribed Bentyl and Robinul. At 33, I went off the pill so that I could start our family. I got pregnant really quickly, but didn't even suspect I was pregnant until I was around nine weeks. Not only didn't I…

As someone who has fallen prey to this myself, I'll tell ya, it's surprising to the person experiencing it, too! Like, What the hell, how did I get so worked up about this? But by the time that thought occurs, you already ARE all worked up about it, so the obvious option of just walking away from the computer…

As we've seen tonight.

It's not the trolls that surprise me. It's the normally sane people who get completely insane over the weirdest things and then insist on dying on that hill, all the while loudly opining about how they're totally the only sane ones and the fact that everyone else on the site disagrees just proves that everyone is…

It's relevant. It was unprofessional behavior either way, but if she's visibly not comfortable, that's a LOT worse.

I don't know why I'm still surprised at what brings the trolls out, and at the enormous time they are given when people respond to them, but I still am. Amazing.

.....or I do not want to see a waitress getting bitten or have her ass slapped regardless how she feels about it. People keep talking about the waitresses feelings- whether she was okay with it or not is kind of irrelevant. If I'M not okay with it, then I don't want to eat there.

No, that's really not your point, and this is a very frustrating conversation because you keep saying very specific, very ridiculous things, and then when other people explain to you why those things are ridiculous, you pretend you're just making a simple observation that has almost nothing to do with anything you…

Try this on for size instead:

You're trying really hard to hate on this. People do this ALL THE TIME in reviews "We went to Applebee's today because it was the anniversary of my Grandmother's death and it was her favorite restaurant. They were out of ranch!" People are always leaving completely random facts that they think are important but…

This has nothing to do with inner thoughts and opinions. This is about behavior.

She didn't speak for anyone else, and she didn't advocate for anyone else. She wrote a restaurant review detailing behavior that happened in that restaurant, which she personally witnessed. She wrote about her own experience, and her own impressions of that experience. That's what you're so angry about.

Sunday March 8 was International Women's Day. She went out for dinner. She is a woman. Can you imagine now how that might have come up in the review? Think about it. Take your time.

In most countries, International Women's Day is a holiday and not political. It's sort of like a combo of Mother's Day and Valentine's Day. And lots of celebrants go to restaurants. So, it is monumentally stupid to ban the mention, association with feminism notwithstanding.

life is unavoidably political for those of us who aren't straight, white, able-bodied, men

Apparently they haven't banned the word "racist", because that couldn't be construed as "political language."