kentuckienne
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kentuckienne

Huh. This explains the story I heard at the last Christmas I ever had to spend with my ex-stepfather’s crazy extended family, in which his sister expounded at length on how her son (best known for his many illegitimate children, all fathered with different women) was hospitalized as a child for “something he caught

A friend of mine works for the circus! She’s been sneezed on by an elephant.

“there are cultural issues of implication involved in the practice.”

Why does this person look like she’s in deep mourning?

This makes me sad. My Girl Scout troop was awesome. We went on hikes and low-impact camping trips; one of our troop leaders had worked as a nurse on a Navaho reservation, and so she taught us bead weaving and other crafts she had learned there. The other leader took us on field trips to her farm, where we learned to

“Rolling in the Deep”, by Adele. The chorus “You’re gonna wish you/never had met me” is nicely threatening.

Telling her she should have been at home, already pregnant with her next one. And barefoot.

This is the most callous response I can imagine to a story about a baby dying. Shame on you.

The tradition of the head of the Yale colleges and the Harvard houses being called “Master” is borrowed from the English university system (as is the system of houses and colleges itself.) I suppose you can argue that the term is still problematic, but it’s not like Yale was directly inspired by plantation-style

Eh, a bacterial infection wouldn’t spike my tissue transglutinase antibody (tTg-IgA) levels, which were high enough to indicate that I’d been eating gluten somewhere. Since I never knowingly cheat on the diet, I met with a nutritionist who helped me narrow down the list of suspects to Chipotle. After I quit eating

As an actual, bloodwork and biopsy-confirmed celiac, the possibility of cross-contamination from the toaster is sadly true. Especially if it’s one of the commercial “conveyor belt”-style toasters — those things are full of crumbs. We don’t have two toasters at home, but we have a toaster oven; the rack is reserved for

Honestly, my guess is that because Laverne Cox became famous after her transition, many people don’t even realize that she’s a transwoman. She plays a trans character on OITNB, of course, but people may not make the connection to her actual life. Whereas Caitlyn Jenner has been in our collective consciousness for

If you want to be depressed, try searching for the phrase “I’m not racist, but...” on Yelp or tripadvisor, or any similar site.

On Pinterest? That seems like a bizarre place for them to congregate.

Dr. McStabby

So here’s a skin-related question: my dermatologist just prescribed tretinoin for some gnarly cystic acne. My insurance deemed it cosmetic and won’t cover it. At a cool $190, is it worth it? (I, err, might be interested in it for cosmetic reasons as well, but I swear it was prescribed for acne, not just because I’m 35

That sounds... fishy, to say the least.

Right? I went to our local hardware store this weekend instead of a big box store because the staff there know what they’re talking about. One was able to direct me to the childproofing stuff, another helped me compare toaster ovens, and a third directed me to the shelf liners. I’ll gladly pay somewhat higher prices

I read this story. Besides marveling at the level of self-deception practiced by Stubblefield, I wondered if anyone’s invented a device to stabilize the arm and/or hands of a disabled person, so that they can type without the sort of Ouija-board style puppetry that can apparently happen with facilitated communication.

I’m pretty sure that what they hate is the “Obama” part of it.