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Thank you! I get so upset when people rage about why the FDA isn't immediately approving any and every medication submitted, with the implication that they just don't care and want people to suffer/die. Drugs SHOULD be tested, and that testing SHOULD be extensive.

What is it about the Brits and their love of suffering, both theirs and that of others?

YES. Libraries are so, so important.

This is why I'm afraid to wear the awesome fur coat I inherited from my great-grandmother. I seriously doubt explaining that those animals died in like 1920 would make a difference to them. (Not even if I said that by wearing it I'm honoring their memory.)

I had one, certainly.

I hate the way forms here force me to use "Mrs." incorrectly, though, and don't give me the option of leaving the title off completely to remedy that.

Chunky shoes do not make your legs look cute. Chunky shoes make your legs look either stubby or like sticks. I am so ready for the horrible bulky-ankle-high-shoe thing to end. They're just awful on everyone, with everything.

Perhaps because they were originally—and still are—sold in packages at gas stations etc. with the label "bath salts?" Which is how so many people get hold of them? And why laws have had to be passed to ban them, because they were perfectly legal before?

Not to mention it's not like she actually invented any looks herself; she just copied what punks were already wearing.

It's the new look, don't you remember? [jezebel.com]

Oh, snap. I saw that story a while ago. That's some messed-up shit, right there.

Thank you. I get really tired of people insisting Clinton was impeached for having an affair, when in fact it was because he committed perjury. Oh, and of course he lied outright to the American people ("I did not have sexual relations with that woman") in an attempt to cover up his perjury.

I've been rewatching seasons 3 and 4 and am constantly struck by what a beautiful little girl she is, yeah.

Nobody cares about writers, ever.

I do the same thing. Sigh, RIP Octavia.

I've been on that diet for years. I saw a comedienne once refer to it as the "I'm too lazy to get up and fix my fat ass something to eat" diet. :-)

Awesome.

Speaking as a woman novelist tired of seeing her books dismissed as "chick books" just because they happen to contain a romantic subplot, while books with the same basic story elements *and* those same romantic subplots written by men are respected and taken seriously... Fuck you, Douglas Brinkley.

Makes me think of DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?, personally.