Aw, I was hoping to hear one of my favorite smaller romance presses had published this. Some of the e- and print-on-demand romance publishers offer so much more variety. Somewhat off topic, but I was proud of my own publisher for offering a romance with a heroine who used a wheelchair... shouldn't be that…

A couple I know went and talked to Jane Lynch, Guy Pearce, Julie Bowen, and Melissa McCarthy. They posted about it numerous times on FB, for which I didn't blame them at all. :)

Doug Barry is an experimental prose writer who fractures timelines and questions objective reality through distinctive, stuttering syntax.

A woman I know on another forum seemed to make one disastrous life choice after another, and she startled me last year when she announced she was a life coach and started trying to solicit clients on the forum. She didn't have any takers. I suppose you could give someone good advice while not being able to give it to…

Oh, and you know what, I do have one other suggestion that might or might not help. I've done this with a different situation. Choose a way that you can treat yourself every time he makes a remark like this: a mocha, a piece of jewelry, a pair of shoes, whatever, depending on your budget and the estimated frequency of…

There is no reason for him to make comments about other women's attractiveness, and he followed it up with more asshattery. You were right to be pissed and he should change. If it's a recurring theme, I wonder if a good marriage counselor might help him see the light. Sorry, maybe that's not helpful, but he's just…

Whenever there's a story about sadistic hazing in fraternities and sororities, people chime in to explain how their fraternity or sorority isn't/wasn't like that, which is totally understandable.

One thing about being a childless aunt of many nieces and nephs is that I can't remember which ones are my godkids. After a while, all the baptisms kind of blur together...Hopefully the godchildren aren't expecting special treatment...

The companionship of a nice whippet would probably help with her recovery!

This is definitely one of his better ideas.

Just so well done.

It's going to be like that in heaven.

Geez, that was really well done.

So you don't think there's any difference for drafting sports teams or college students in terms of talent, and drafting pledges? We disagree there, then.

Maybe someone else will bother to explain this to you, but I don't think it's a good use of my time, to be honest.

I know what you mean about those things never getting noticed, certainly. (And good job for doing them!)

Right! "Not cruel and sadistic" is way up there in qualities I look for in a friend.

It is absolutely not anecdotal. These stories come out constantly. Studies show that hazing and abuse is endemic to the system. Google it, for God's sake. Saying the system is rotten doesn't mean you, personally, are rotten, or that your experiences were bad. But the system is rotten. I think we'll have to agree to…

How do people wind up so desperate for acceptance? I will hardly do anything I don't want to for the sake of acceptance. I wonder why I'm like that, and other people are like this?

I really don't care if they hate it or not, and the "country/cunt" analogy is not even an analogy. It makes no sense. The fact that someone explained it to you that way just gives me a lower opinion of frat guys. And applying "inclusive language" rhetoric to men in frats is absurd. Frat dudes do not constitute a…