My sister used to call this "duck butt" - without a belt, the pants stick out at the back of the waist like a duck's tail. With a belt, the waist is so bunched it looks like elastic-waist Mom Jeans. If she can find a pair of pants that fits without causing duck butt, she's sold.

So, here's my question: does this surveillance system use actual video tape? Because a lot of places record over old tapes without properly erasing them. Which can lead to "ghosts" - images bleeding over from old recordings into new ones.

When I was almost five, I asked my mom where babies come from (because she was pregnant with my little sister). She gave me a copy of the book "A Child is Born" by Lennart Nilsson, which has these awesome pictures of cells and fertilization and developing fetuses, and was a pretty straight-forward explanation. I…

Isn't she also anti-vax?

These are the ones I bought:

When my best friend was pregnant with her daughter, the stuff I bought for the baby shower was stuff I knew she'd like: a pastel green onesie from the ESPN store in Bristol (big sports fans, that family); some UCF onesies (both parents are grads); and periodic table building blocks for later, because mom is an…

I agree the name is silly-sounding. Still, there are a bunch of FDA regulations about naming drugs, and they can veto a name if it fails one of their tests (there are a few, including sounding similar or looking similar to another when written by a doctor on a prescription). I think tying the name to what the drug…

It may have something to do with how many drug names there already are. I was listening to a commentary on Psych, and they discussed how difficult it was coming up with fake drug names for Gus (who is in pharmaceutical sales). Every name they came up with already existed, and it took forever to generate the ones they…

I think it's less competing and more distancing, no-true-scotsman style. By separating themselves from those who commit these offenses, it keeps them from feeling any need or responsibility to do something about it, like call their friends out or analyze their own behavior in a critical way.

I wonder how young her son was? She may have been trying to avoid saying she didn't like something so he wouldn't use it as an excuse later, as smaller kids do. You know, "You didn't eat something you don't like, so why do I have to?" sort-of thing. Not justifying something that minimizes the legitimacy of real…

No lie, every time my fiance and I go out to diner-style restaurants, he orders the veggie burger and I order a steak, or a regular burger, or a chicken sandwich, or something carnivorous (I am a woman). Without fail, they always try to give me the veggie burger and him the the meat. Different restaurants, different…

I stopped buying women's clothing at Target years ago, before I even hit plus sizes, because of the quality. Now that I'm in plus sizes, there's no way in hell I'd buy anything they sell for me - the swimsuits look just like the ones my mom bought in the early 80s, and I couldn't find the other clothes even when they…

Yeah, and the same dress in the same color in "regular" sizes had a different name. Like, not one of a giant animal.

Also, Whedon and Edlund wrote Titan A.E., the movie that bankrupted Fox Animation Studios and caused their shutdown just two years before Firefly came out. It's amazing that FOX picked up the show at all, and it's very likely they were biased going in.

Mine does this bizarre forward roll into doors that are pulled to, but not closed all the way. It worked for her when she was a tiny kitten and not very strong, so she still does it today as a grown kitty. Hilarious to watch.

Pro tip: When I worked at Old Navy, the conversion factor was +22 (women's size 10 = men's size 32). I find it works pretty well most places that are similarly priced (and is a least a good starting point if you have no idea what size you are in the men's department). It does have to be women's sizes, though - I have…

Yes. All the time. I got pulled over once for "bumping" the line dividing the lanes once. He just wanted an excuse to try and search my car. Welcome to Atlanta.

Raphael all the way. From Rob Paulsen to Josh Pais to this guy (even though I won't see the new movie unless they Rifftrax it):

Cynthia Rothrock, Karen Sheppard, Michelle Yeoh, Zoe Bell, and Sophia Crawford all should've been in this movie before Ronda Rousey. And I'm still amazed that Michael Jai White isn't part of the male cast.

Some cops in metro Atlanta will pull you over for this. The people I know who've been pulled over have been issued "warnings", because it's not technically against the law (I think). In Florida, you can't count on the traffic going the other way not to run the light and hit you. It's pretty much a given that at least…