Sometimes a being sacrifices for the betterment of others. Bruce has been taking one for Team SNS.

I agree with you, overall, but I think that nicotine addiction ≠ really troubled person.

Oh, so many Bruce photos—thanks!

To be fair, I did call him Mrs Danvers

I’m an asshole, too.

Or Robert Pickton, the Canadian serial killer who preyed on “disposable” women and fed their bodies to his hogs.

I’ve always appreciated the Jewish conception of teshuva (forgiveness) because it’s not about absolution but repentance and atonement (and murder can’t really be forgiven because the murderer cannot make things “right” with the victim, who is dead; at best, a murderer could repent for murder and apologize for the pain…

I really don’t care if she quits or not.

I’d be happy if she just worked on getting free of writing about them.

Esther, man,

Of course families matter--esp. supportive parenting in the first year of life--but the research about adolescents indicates that peers are a bigger influence than parents during teen/young adult years. 

very lovely

lettuce = good for you

and lettuce—sans salmonella or e coli—is actually good for a person.

thanks for a nice response—really.

moral panic about vaping would go something like this:

’ll take someone’s vape cloud in my face over cigarette smoke from 200 feet away, any day of the week.

congratulations! it takes fortitude to quit smoking.

I have an intellectual crush on you this evening.

you will just have to stop with all this logic and reasonableness.