Carly Fiorina’s 2010 Senate campaign in a nutshell:

I love that the daughter of a law school dean and federal judge, who went to the $15,000/year Channing School in London, then Stanford is trying to pass herself off as someone who bootstrapped her way from a secretarial position to CEO of a major tech corporation. That’s some narrative she’s working to create there.

if you vote for carly fiorina you need to reevaluate literally every single decision you’ve ever made.

Ugh! I HATE when people do that. Hate hate hate it! I have pain management issues because of chronic kidney problems. The absolute worst was when I was waiting to get a Rx filled at the pharmacy & some guy was picking something up for his wife & started talking to me. Keep in mind this guy was middle aged, overweight,…

I have an allergy to raw tomatoes (among other things). One of my “friends” refused to believe that someone could be allergic to tomatoes at all, much less just raw ones. She decided to test me by serving me a burrito with tomatoes hidden inside it. Thank goodness my allergy isn’t a life threatening variety. Thanks…

People would do that to my little brother, he has a severe peanut allergy. We taught him to ask about peanuts as soon as he could talk. People would get so upset when he or anyone else would ask about everything having been checked for peanuts, or if it was home made were there peanuts near it? We had one teacher at a…

It’s great to take cross contamination seriously, but sometimes the best answer is just “Sorry, we can’t do that” even if people don’t want to do it.

I’m comparatively lucky in that my bell pepper allergy only results in rapid and extended gastrointestinal evacuation rather than anaphylactic shock. That said, you have no idea how common it is for chefs to throw them in dishes without warning anyone. Why, no, my evening plans didn’t consist of anything beyond the…

I don’t have life-threatening allergies, but when I eat or touch a small number of things I break out in hives and start wheezing, my nose runs like crazy, my eyes stream for hours. The list sounds like I’m a whiny bitch: orange sweet potatoes, salmon and other pink fish, dates, agave, under ripe mango (latex in the…

I’m glad your husband is doing that. Wonder what they say when he tells them.

On the question of well-done steaks, I have to say I'm much, much more disturbed by rare hamburgers.

I’ve been glutened maybe 5 times at restaurants in the last couple of years, and some of those times were definitely MY FAULT, not double-checking seasoning or whatever. But a couple times were absolutely not.

My stepdad was a former heavyweight boxer who used to beat me with weightlifting belts and knives when I didn’t perform chores well enough. I never saw him hit my mom, but I suspect he did. The last time I saw him alive, I told him if he hit my 2 year-old sister again I was going to kill him. A freak accident took him…

Oh, agreed. I guess I misread that part of the article, mea culpa. If a customer makes a request, and the restaurant says “Yes, we will honor that,” they should actually honor that. If they say they will and they don’t, they are assholes.

Due to a horrid birch pollen allergy I’m allergic to almonds and everything in the rosacea family (stone fruit, strawberries and apples.) Now my allergy is not likely to kill me but it’s serious enough to ruin my evening.

Speaking as a former child of a physically abusive dad, they are all cowards. After I turned 16 I got big enough I could stop the abuse. I'll never forget the look on my dads face when I told him, if you lay one hand on me, I will kill you, and I may not succeed, but you will be very messed up, I promise you. He never…

Thank you for writing this and for sharing this person’s story. I hope this gets mainpaged on every website across the interwebs. My daughter has a serious allergy to tree nuts (as in her throat will swell shut and she could die) and a good fifty percent of the time, when asking the server about the ingredients of a…

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+1 Daniel. Well done.