Why am I engaging, but here I go... I know a lot of doctors, and they aren’t saying any such thing to me. I know a woman who had lung cancer. She lost a lung 10 years ago, but has been fine since. She’s lucky and it’s a blessing. Until 2019, she traveled, interacted with her grandchildren; it was great she was in such…

Because they’re drive in rallies focused on limiting congregation, population density, and speaking to people who believe that in a pandemic, being in public groups is often not a good idea. Rally size is an even worse predictor than the phone polls... in a world where no one answers unknown phone calls anymore.…

As someone who actually was out cold from food poisoning and strong IV drugs from 5:30 pm on Election Day 2016 until 9 or 10 a.m. Eastern the next day, I can highly recommend it. Yes, it was a surreal, awful feeling when I woke up groggy and asked my husband what happened, but at least I didn’t have to watch it in…

I AM superstitious, and I think this is a bad fking idea. The second I saw that in the commercial break this past Saturday, I was like, welp, here we go again.

Different mammogram machines work differently, and the older style (which a number of places probably still use) squished your boobs a LOT. The newer style took less pictures and squished less. The first one I had... let’s say 10-12 yrs ago... was surprisingly squeezy - like I wouldn’t have easily been able to pancake…

I must commend to you all the Mrs. America series that ran on Hulu. While paints Phyllis Schlafly too favorably (the anti-gay stuff after the timeline of the series, for one), it was very educating to see the position that her success required of her. Essentially, a lot of conservative women in politics have to paint…

This has already happened to a number of Reps. Our local Rep, Barbara Comstock, a long-standing Congresswoman from Northern VA, called from Trump to pull himself out of the race after the ET tapes. A longstanding Republican, she was a Bush Republican and tried (desperately) to distance herself from Trump in 2016 and…

Seriously, still, years on. Fuck Nader. I’ll spare Perot, who 100% believed it and and believed he had an honest shot. I bedded down with Bloomberg on Super Tuesday (me and all what, 37 of us) purely for the firepower to beat Trump, because the Biden of late 2019 and Jan/Feb 2020 did not seem viable until the SC win.…

I’m very much inclined to agree with you. In my experience, it’s the retailer that cares (the kind that demands ID whenever you use a credit card, which is essentially stores where people use stolen cards) and rarely the CC company. None of my CC cards or bank card is in the correct (long) legal last name. My husband…

Especially one that could see how it was going to take shape. I voted the first day of voting in the biggest county in VA; our line made the main article of CNN national news until RBG passed away that night. In line before an 8 a.m. opening, it took 4 hours before I voted, and the people outside probably had 5-6…

I think you’d find that once you make it into Harvard, as long as the checks clear, it’s hard to fall out. Grade inflation at top schools is very real, because no one wants to flunk out a rich guy’s kid. Always go to a school with grade inflation if you can...

McConnell is deeply in bed with the Russians, like Zevon’s waitress. 

I have these containers, but they are all from Thai or Chinese take-out, and I don’t even get Thai or Chinese take-out with any regularity, so I was slightly surprised when she mentioned to purchase them. I mean, what do you do with your take-out, or completed cream cheese, sour cream, or other dairy tubs? Or pasta…

I use junk mail - the thicker postcards that so many mailers come on these days are a perfect size for most smaller bowls, and if I don’t have any of those or I have a serving bowl, I use a page ripped out of a catalog that has the thicker more construction paper-like pages. If a catalog page is too big for the bowl…

But not a benevolent, omnipotent, omniscient one. A totally Old Testament, scattershot, mood-disordered one who neither favors the good nor the evil.

As above, I got grayed for an innocuous comment to the same effect, and once I couldn’t really find my Jez comments (even allowing for the grays) without deliberately searching anymore, I left. I’ve been on Jez since 2007 and used to visit 12 times a day earlier this year and I’ve left. I go on Lifehacker a couple…

Be careful - I got grayed and posts moved to obscurity for saying similar... in defense of ladies who liked day planners (of which I am not one). There’s increasingly one way to be around here.

MOLLY, you need to answer this legitimate observation. The selective recitation of published facts in this case is bad journalism and bad bloggery. The only explanation is trying to take a story in the news and use it make a statement about “kids die in the USA when people are poor because our healthcare system is…

But the banana slicer presupposes you have the dexterity to open the banana in the first place. As I sit here with a broken index finger.

I am an alumna of one of the highest profile colleges with a shitty COVID plan, and it’s astounding how badly the university fucked it up. How could you possibly bring back a large university with students from around the country/world and not even have the basic COVID test requirement before returning? Even if old…