Bless.

I just asked my husband-who went to med school in TX in the 90s-if he ever performed/practiced pelvics on unconsenting, unconscious women. His response?

Yeah, my high school boyfriend is an OB/Gyn now and he got into it because he loves babies and is really fascinated with neonatal/maternal issues. He's not a creep at all and doesn't even really care about the money.

Amen!! oh...

You know what? Fuck all those rules that say a woman should or shouldn't do something after a certain age. I will be 47 in a few weeks, have had a pixie cut off and on for years and now rock a long bob (shoulder-length), which looks great. I also still wear bikinis, Converse and have dumb crushes on rock stars.

She comes across as incredibly insecure and has an embarrassing need to be the center of attention. Still, I used to think she was funny.

Happy Late Birthday from Austin. I hope you ended up having a good one, despite it all. :-)

Thank you; I felt like an old idiot for not getting that whole thread.

A friend in Baltimore has a saint of a daughter who fosters and (sometimes) adopts special needs children (severe kidney disease, feeding tubes, abuse, blindness, you name it). Two of the boys she fostered were found-not kidding-on a street corner in Baltimore, wearing diapers at the ages of three and four. Mom was a…

I always, always choke back a little sob at videos like this. I guess they are disarmingly compassionate and we are so used to seeing and hearing about rudeness? Part of it is seeing strangers making other strangers smile.

"behemoth"

She certainly doesn't comport herself as one...

Totally get it, think it's a terrific idea and know that you meant continent. ;-)

Have you held up a map to Grandma?

COTD.

Maybe the kitty pushing everything off the desk?

And a 21-year old is considered an adult on her own.

If I was invited to an "Africa" party, I would likely find some kind of English Patient or Ancient Egypt or animal costume because that is where my former drama major brain would go. Not that those are more enlightened ideas but it would never occur to me to go in blackface and I'm flummoxed to see that so many people…

Are you talking about the TV show where Harry Connick, Jr. was stunned into disbelief?

I still miss the Oilers. (RIP, Bum.)