@Limecrete: Actually on the Boy Scout thing, I'd agree with you (but would still never let my imaginary son participate), except the Boy Scouts benefit *greatly* from using federal facilities rent-free for meetings and events. Their big jamboree or whatever it's called is held on an Army base with help from Army…

@JessaFields: Ah, got my timeline all mixed up. I guess it's just one big celebrity blur for me! :) So it sounds like he may have been in rehab twice, then, because I do think I remember him doing it at the end of Bennifer...

@Ginmar Rienne: Gah, the not saying NO thing drives me nuts. And no Jamba Juice as a punishment for a 2 yr old?? How often was said child getting Jamba Juice that this would be a valid deterrent? That stuff is loaded with sugar, whether it's all natural or not.

@HannahBethD: Total hell for me too. Fourth grade? All good. Fifth - eighth grade? Nightmare.

@pumpkinseed: I think it just depends on the school/town, and I have yet to be able to discern a pattern. I've had friends who went to rural, urban, suburban, large, small, wealthy, and lower- income schools, and many have had bullying and Mean Girls and elitist cliques, and many did not.

@CatGaffney: I'm too lazy to look it up, but from what I can recall, I think it was after he was caught making out with a stripper at a club while he was engaged to J.Lo. So he decided he had a drinking and/or substance problem that caused it all, and went to rehab.

@mochimochigenkigenki: I *have* to get to Japan someday, if only to try all the cool food and candy concoctions like this!

@Miss_Teacher: D'oh! So cruel, yet so far...

@TeganTheVegan: Oooh, never thought about that part, that's definitely an upside for you! Curious, though, can he taste food at all, or does the lack of smell only partially interfere with that?

@SUNNY1: It does, but I also wonder if the author is just fixating on these details since it seems she really, really has not made peace with her disability...

Coffee-flavored Kit Kat bars exist?? I couldn't read the rest of the article, because this completely took all my attention away. Where can I find?

@Kristinkles Ingabogovinanana: No, because it's a 100% voluntary. From the article, it sounds like everyone still gets the 20% discount WF employees have always gotten even if they don't particpate, or do participate but don't achieve the benchmarks the program operates under. So without any discrimination (no one's…

@Scout: OMG, you should have heard the uproar when the 1 cent per ounce tax on soda and sugary drinks was proposed as part of the health care reform bills. You would think they were suggesting taxing milk or kicking puppies.

@Rooo sez BISH PLZ: If all those comments upthread that you reference are allowed to state their opinion that the WF program is BS, why in the world can't she state that she thinks otherwise??

@BytheSea: Nope, not in this case. It's a 100% voluntary program, and no one's benefits got cut (regardless of BMI everyone can still get 20%).

@lambsy: Hee, that it does, that it does. This was all pre reality tv, so clearly we sought our entertainment junk fix from other real life events...

@Cairn: Do we know how recently this was taken, though?

The teenage son did this to his girlfriend on the first season of Weeds, right? Poked holes in the condom with a needle, if I recall correctly. And luckily she broke up with him after having an abortion...

@ardentlilac: Thanks, that's nice to hear! And I'm very open to adoption, but as with a biological child, not keen on doing it alone, so here's hoping down the road I meet someone who feels likewise...

@scubachick: Dad's a cop, so I'm guessing she likes to play with them so he put a couple up for her.