Okay, I really like the expando pant idea. But, just cause it is important to me for reasons known only to me, it's "au" contraire. :-).

It's funny, because *my* eight year old picked up the news about this legislation listening to the radio on the way to school. He brought it to MY attention and said how ridiculously unfair it was and how it should be stopped. He then proceeded to explain to me how it was punishing the kids for what was probably the…

Good Lord. That's all I've got.

Journalists and statisticians are natural enemies. And just for kicks I'd also like to know the cohort used in arriving at this average?

Yes, a potential, or maybe even actual and already seasoned, well-practiced rapist. They aren't so uncommon and rape is very often a crime of opportunity. This is what rape crisis hotline phone calls sound like before they get to, "Then he pushed me onto the couch, lifted my skirt and penetrated me." I know what…

Yeah, I'm 45 and my very first office job involved an IBM XT/AT (?) and WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3 in its infant form. I've never *not* used computer technology, so I am not sure where all of this so-called "old people" can't do technology crap comes from. When the MS Office programs were launched, I was there,…

Feel your pain a little . . . but even if you aren't Celiacs, there are related auto-immune diseases (one of which my husband and son have), that also require us to steer clear of gluten/wheat. And the, the discovery that both of them have a straight-up wheat allergy. Truth is, all that Irish ancestry can screw you…

I'll tell you what. You quit your job and then you can take care of my kid while *I* hang out with your dog. My kid is really cool, but he is so very much more trouble than a dog. For the three years I stayed at home with him and did "nothing else" I've never had less time to sit down, brush my teeth, take a shower…

I think you need to tell your FB friend that's she's marrying an potential rapist. It actually is your responsibility to do so. Shit's going to fly and she's going to hate you, but who cares.

Ectopic pregnancy?

I live in St. Louis (not a native, but a Western transplant). I think what it may be difficult to understand about St. Louis if you don't live here, is just how small this town is. In all of my obscurity, lack of social importance and lower-middle-class-dom, I am probably 1 degree of separation from this doc,…