There’s an interesting psychological component to conspiracy theorists. (And by “interesting,” I don’t mean to negate the harm they are causing.) They tend to be people who think there is order in the way things are, and when chaos happens, it is because it is made to happen by a shadowy network; thus this chaos is…

Three orchids? How quaint. I have over 500, mostly cattleya alliance.

Not only in a position of power, man infamous for his charisma and womanizing. It would be very hard for most people, especially young and inexperienced ones, to put up resistance.

He sure as fuck did. He’s a superhero as far as I’m concerned. It took real courage to rely on his rational deductions rather than what the array was showing. 

Another reason for the high death rate is that women are bleeding to death after giving birth. California has reversed that trend by simply requiring the pads the women are laid on to be weighed when changed. Over a certain weight, and intervention for hemorrhage is started. I know it sounds crazy and too simple to be…

Some people with disabilities, especially those that manifest more physically and are more visible, seem to fear that physican-assisted suicide will lead to a ‘duty to die’ and the involuntary euthanasia. I understand that fear, but I think the current physician-assisted suicide laws are written to avoid that, as well…

My Nightmare Forced Repeated Soundtrack was Phantom of the Opera, played on a loop, at a stressful desk job by a supervisor who considered it to the epitome of high culture. Andrew Lloyd Webber is an abomination and Sarah Brightnan’s voice is just off enough to be like a dagger through the brain.

There was a Roger the Plumber in my hometown. Never used him because I’d rather pay with money. 

Not a lot, but I can think of at least one other that happened after the Bobbit case, involving a woman who had been raped repeatedly for years by her father. When her father was going to take her 8 year oldniece - the daughter of her sister, who was also raped by her father, but in deep denial over it and under his…

I was 28 in 1993, and I understood why she did it: she was removing his weapon. He raped her repeatedly and bragged about it to his friends. She wanted the rape to stop. 

The bite has to be fairly deep. Most cats carry pasturella, which is a pretty nasty bacteria. A “normal” bite - one that breaks the skin but isn’t a deep puncture wound - generally will not result in a life-threatening infection but a “life-or-death” bite - one where the cat is biting hard out of fear, anger or pain…

Sweet Fannie bit my thumb a number of times, hard. We were both having a bad day; stressed from moving; I’d just had major shoulder surgery; and she didn’t want to go in her carrier and I just wouldn’t listen. So she bit me.

I can affirm this is true. I can kindly be described as “dumpy,” I’m freshly 54, I dress to be comfortable, and I’m married.  I get hit on by old and young alike. It’s not as bad as when I was much younger, but it’s still as annoying!

Not so much King George or Winston Churchill, but more Rainman or I Am Sam. Playing someone with an intellectual disability or brain injury, as Hogancamp has suffered, is OscarGold™️ as long as, in the immortal words of Tropic Thunder, “you never go full retard.”

I’m an Old and also Childfree, so here’s how the “gender reveals” went that I know about:

The Sentinelese people are not believed to have learned how to make a fire yet. They tend fires set by lightning (etc). They also do not cook the meat and fish they eat. Teaching them to torch a body could be a violation of the Prime Directive. 

“Fat” and “ugly” aren’t synonyms. Example: Momma June of the TLC horror show. She was ugly fat and she’s ugly thin. Another example is Melissa McCarthy, who is quite pretty at any weight.

OMFG, that quote is from Winston fucking Churchill, not Ronald dumbass Reagan. Holy shit, did Reagan also say, “I have nothing to offer but blood, tears, toil, and sweat”? Maybe everything Churchill said was really said by Reagan.

Men killing women isn’t particularly shocking, even when that woman is a pregnant intimate partner. What makes this case stand out is that it was a Family Annihilation, carried out by a failure who thought he could “erase” his “mistakes” by murdering his pregnant wife and young children, and carry on with a blank…

I don’t get it. It’s like chickens voting for Col Sanders.